Brewing companies, like tobacco companies, should not advertise in a manner that unduly attracts the attention of underage Americans. A class action has been filed against Anheuser-Busch Company and Miller Brewing Company on behalf of all current residents of the state of California who were under 21 years of age between February 3, 2000, and February 3, 2004, and who purchased alcoholic beverages manufactured by the companies during that period. The action alleges that the companies violated state unfair competition laws in the California False Advertising Act by deliberately targeting alcoholic beverage advertising to underage drinkers.

Your mortgage contract should tell you exactly what fees your lender can charge--Do not pay any fees not listed. The class has been certified in an action filed against lender Household Finance Corporation and its Beneficial Corporation subsidiary on behalf of mortgage borrowers nationally who allege that the companies violated their loan agreements by overcharging interest on loan origination fees. Persons eligible to take part in this action need take no action at the present time.

California law sets the amount a real estate company can charge when processing rental applications. The parties have reached a tentative $200,000 settlement in an action filed against Apartment Investment and Management Company (AIMCO) on behalf of all persons who paid an excessive application fee in California between December 11, 1998, and August 29, 2003. Claims must be postmarked no later than December 31, 2003, to be considered eligible.

At least 1,000 Washington homeowners paid higher mortgage rates than they had to without getting proper notification, according to a lawsuit that a federal judge certified for class-action status.

A class action has been filed against Thermal Ease Hydronic Systems, Inc., its parent company Plasco Manufacturing Ltd. (now known as Uponor Canada, Inc.), and other firms on behalf of all people in the United States who now own, or owned in the past, buildings in which a hydronic heating system using cross-linked non-barrier polyethylene pipe manufactured by Thermal Ease was installed on or after January 1, 1995. This pipe, known as UltraPEX, allegedly deteriorates over time as a result of being exposed to regular tap water, which contains chemicals such as chlorine.

A class-action lawsuit was filed against The Children's Place because the company violated the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971, which states a retailer cannot request and record personal identification information from customers who use credit cards. Attorneys claim that The Children's Place then sent the collected phone numbers to a third party data provider and cross referenced the phone numbers to acquire their customers home addresses for marketing purposes. This process, also known as database mining “opens consumers up to identification theft,” said one of the lawyers handling the case.

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