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Alexander Hawes, LLP: Class Action Cases

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Class Action Lawsuits are defined as "groups of people suffering similar harm or losses caused by corporate misconduct, consumer frauds, defective products, business frauds and discrimination." We are an experienced class action firm, and our class action record speaks for itself. Below is a very small sample of what we have done on behalf of our clients. Contact us for more information.

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Here are just a few of our Class Action cases. Contact us for more information.

$120,000,000. One of eight firms in the United States that obtained correction of defective rear hatch door lock failures in nominal impacts for 3,300,000 owners of Chrysler minivans. Actions were filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court, U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and state courts in New York, Louisiana, Texas and Alabama. Because door locks are not subject to any federal motor vehicle safety standard, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had limited authority to force a recall absent Chrysler's willingness to do so. Chrysler announced a "service action" and its intention to replace all such locks the day before our motion for class certification was set to be heard in Santa Clara County Superior Court. These related class actions resulted in a negotiated settlement under which Chrysler became contractually bound to all owners of 1984 through 1995 Chrysler minivans to replace existing rear hatch door locks. Chrysler estimates that the total cost of this contractual recall is approximately $120,000,000. Mann v. Chrysler Corporation, Santa Clara County Superior Court Action number CV 746017. The provisional settlement was given final approval by Judge Charles A. Legge in Stuart Hanlon, et al v. Chrysler Corporation, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Civil Action No. C 95-2010 CAL.

Spearheaded $15,500,000 recovery for the victims of the pollution of the Sacramento River when a 19,000 gallon tank car derailed at the Cantara Loop spilling metam sodium and releasing methyl isothiocyanate impacting residents of the Dunsmuir and Lake Shasta area. Major responsibilities, as a member of the steering committee for this class action, involved proof of medical causation, selection of experts in epidemiology, air dispersion, toxicology, occupational medicine, pulmonary medicine and psychiatry, and trial preparation. Active member of four attorney team that negotiated the final settlement. San Francisco Superior Court, Sacramento River Spill Litigation, Judicial Council Coordination Nos. 2617 and 2620.

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