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William "Bill" Shannon Lerach (born March 14, 1946, [1] Ohio River Valley, [2] Midwestern United States) is an American disbarred lawyer who specialized in private Securities Class Action lawsuits. The $7.12 billion he obtained as the lead plaintiff's attorney in the case against Enron is currently the largest sum ever recovered in a group of ...
Sentenced to 1 year in prison in 1991, released 1992 Racecar driver and payday lender; indicted in 1991 for three felony charges, including mail fraud and making false statements to a bank. [38] Roy Tyler: Sentenced to life in prison in 1917, paroled in 1924. Reincarcerated around 1932 for violating parole and released in 1936.
Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach: 523 U.S. 26 (1998) pretrial procedures in multi-district litigation: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: 523 U.S. 75 (1998) applicability of sexual harassment laws to same sex harassment Quality King Distributors Inc., v. L'anza Research International Inc. 523 U.S. 135 (1998)
William Lerach (class action lawyer) Tim Misny (class action lawyer) David I. Shapiro (class action lawyer) Paul Sprenger (lawyer representing employees in class actions) Harvey Thomas Strosberg (Canadian class action lawyer) Ted Wells (lawyer representing corporations in class actions)
Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, 523 U.S. 26 (1998), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that a district court conducting coordinated pretrial proceedings in multiple cases by designation of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation under 28 U.S.C. § 1407(a) has no authority to reassign a transferred case to itself for the ...
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Brown, now 33, was no run-of-the-mill street criminal when he cut a deal with the State Attorney’s Office in 2014. As the teenage leader of the A&E gang (so-named due to their affection for ...
Michael Conahan, now 72, was sentenced to 17½ years in prison in 2011 in connection with the judicial scandal, which the FBI described as the “worst in Pennsylvania’s history.”