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A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Western District Court of Pennsylvania against County of Allegheny. The case involves violations of employment law. No additional information about the substance of the allegations is available at this time. Classactionamerica.com will monitor this case and provide additional details as soon as they become available.

A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida against DDS Restaurant Corporation, Inc, who operate as Bagel Twins. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former employees, who since March 2001, were not paid proper statutory overtime for all hours worked beyond 40 per week. The action is brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and seeks statutory and liquidated damages as well as declaratory and injunctive relief. As a collective action, all potential claimants are required to "opt-in" to the action in order to be considered part of the class. The employees have requested that the court issue notice to all potential class members.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in federal court against the U.S. Postal Service. The case involves violations of employment law. No additional information about the substance of the allegations is available at this time. Classactionamerica.com will monitor this case and provide additional details as soon as they become available.

The complete U.S. Internal Revenue Code contains more than 2.8 million words--printed 60 lines to the page, it fills almost 6000 letter-size pages. The classes in two related actions have been certified against the United States of America on behalf of retired Michigan public education employees who had Social Security taxes withheld from early retirement incentive plan payments in violation of federal tax regulations.

A close look into the "medical malpractice crisis" will show that insurance companies, not lawyers, are to blame. Three related class actions have been filed against the General Reinsurance Corporation, Reciprocal of America, accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Milliman U.S.A., and numerous other malpractice insurance providers on behalf of attorneys, doctors and hospitals who bought malpractice insurance from the insurers. The action alleges that the malpractice insurers conspired with their reinsurer Reciprocal of America, which in turn conspired with General Reinsurance to misrepresent Reciprocal's financial health, in violation of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

Major League Baseball's 1997 decision to grant pension rights to former Negro League players sent ripples through the baseball community. A class action has been filed against Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and 30 baseball teams on behalf of former major-league players with short careers who allege that they were wrongfully denied pension and medical benefits and discriminated against because they were white, in violation of federal civil rights laws.