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Homeowners in Ontario and Wisconsin have filed separate class-action suits against Carrier Corp., seeking compensation for corrosion in furnaces sold since the mid-1980s under the Carrier, Bryant, Day & Night, or Payne brand names.

A class action has been filed against Alameda County, California, and its Social Services Agency on behalf of thousands of people who allege that they are illegally denied food stamps and general assistance each year because they are not identified as having mental disabilities, in violation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and state disability and welfare laws.

In some areas of the country, DSL Internet service has gotten off to a slow, rocky start. The class has been certified in an action filed against Bell Atlantic Corporation (now known as Verizon Communications, Inc.) on behalf of New York customers who subscribed to the telephone company's high-speed Internet service. The action alleges that the company violated New York's consumer protection statutes by mis-advertising its Digital Subscriber Line, or DSL, service. The action seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

Industrial environmental contamination from America's industrial age poses a threat of unknown magnitude to U.S. citizens. Class certification has been granted in an action filed against glass manufacturer Pilkington North America, Inc. on behalf of the citizens of Naplate, Illinois, who allege that the company is responsible for arsenic contamination that occurred over decades of glass production by a company that Pilkington purchased in 1985.

A Jefferson County judge ruled that a class action suit may be filed over the Steubenville, Ohio traffic cameras. Judge David E. Henderson entered a "Certification as Class Action," which permits a class action lawsuit to proceed against the city of Steubenville and Traffipax, Inc.

Three former college athletes filed an antitrust suit in the federal district court in Los Angeles against the National Collegiate Athletic Association ("NCAA"). The lawsuit challenges an agreement under which the NCAA and its member schools have imposed a maximum cap on the amount of athletics-based financial aid, or "grant-in-aid" ("GIA"), support available to student athletes competing in major college sports. Under this agreement, the amount of the GIA is artificially fixed at an amount that falls far short of the full "cost of attendance" (or "COA") at NCAA member institutions. The lawsuit alleges that this agreement is an unlawful restraint of trade in violation of the federal antitrust laws.

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