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A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Middle District Court of Florida against LCM Investment Group Inc. for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) which establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments. Class members seek unpaid overtime pay, damages, attorney's fees and costs of the litigation.

Two collective actions have been filed in Alabama against the Birmingham City Board of Education on behalf of all former and current employees who have worked in excess of 40 hours a week, but who have not been paid overtime by the board. The actions are brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and are seeking back pay as damages.

A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of employees of the Texas based chiropractic office franchise Accident & Injury Pain Centers, Inc. The suit alleges that the company routinely denied overtime pay to employees who had worked hours in excess of 40 per week. The workers are seeking back overtime pay and other damages.

The class has been certified in several consolidated class actions against Internet consulting firm marchFIRST, Inc., (formerly AMEX:MQ) and certain of its officers and directors by stockholders who purchased the company's common stock between March 23, 2000, and November 20, 2000. The actions claim that the defendants violated federal securities laws by issuing a series of material misrepresentations to the market over this time period, thereby artificially inflating the price of the company's securities. If you wish to remain a member of the class, you are not required to do anything at the present time.

A lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against the Life Office Management Association (LOMA), an international trade association for the life insurance industry, and its Board of Directors, composed of executive officers from member companies, including State Farm, Hartford Life, Northwestern Mutual and Ameritas. The lawsuit alleges an eighty-two year history of a glass ceiling for African American employees and recent willful violations of equal employment opportunity laws. Member companies of the trade association include Allstate Financial, Prudential, John Hancock, MetLife, New York Life, and Principal Financial Group.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the District Court of Maryland against Noel Bragg for violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). ERISA is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established pension and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in these plans. Class members seek to enjoin defendants to either rescind the 2002 amendment or not apply the amendment, attorney's fees and costs of the litigation.

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