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If work needs to be carried out on your land for the public good, you may have to grant the agency that is doing the working an easement, or permanent right-of-way, but you should be paid for it. The parties have reached a tentative settlement apparently valued at $986,769 in an action filed against AT&T Corporation on behalf of certain persons who own or owned land in Connecticut, through which railroads run and on which AT&T laid fiber optic cable. Claims must be received by March 1, 2004, to be considered valid.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Northern District Court of Georgia against Morris Brown College for violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), which addresses the infiltration of legitimate businesses by organized crime. Class members seek damages, attorney's fees and costs of the litigation.

American Express Financial Advisors (AEFA), a division of American Express, was served August 1, 2005 with a motion that asked Federal Court in Arizona to certify a class of more than 500,000 former AEFA clients. The motion was filed by leading plaintiffs attorneys in Arizona. In the Class Certification motion, the former clients allege that AEFA violated fiduciary duties and perpetrated a scheme to defraud its investing clients through the Company's sale of Financial Plans.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has charged Canadian defendants Pinacle Publishing and M.D.S.C. Publishing with scamming small businesses and charities in the United States out of millions of dollars by billing them for business directory services they did not order or authorize, in violation of federal law. The FTC charges that the defendants refuse consumers’ requests to cancel the services, and use an in-house collection service to harass consumers whose accounts allegedly are past-due.

Federal law prohibits the use of fax machines for sending unsolicited advertisements. The class has been certified in a class action filed against car wash company Carnett’s, Inc. on behalf of up to 73,500 persons who received advertisements over their fax machines in violation of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The action seeks between $500 and $1500 damages per fax sent as allowed by the Act. All persons who received such an ad should contact attorneys for the class.

Heirs of Armenians killed 91 years ago in the Turkish Ottoman Empire sued Deutsche Bank A.G. and Dresdner Bank A.G. on January 13, 2006, claiming the German banks owe them millions of dollars and other assets deposited by their ancestors.