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Sprenger + Lang, PLLC Announces It Has Closed Its Minneapolis Office, Will Expand Its Washington, DC Office
Sprenger + Lang, PLLC, a boutique litigation firm best known for representing employees in major class action discrimination cases, announced today that it has closed its Minneapolis office. Over the years the firm has successfully taken on numerous large Minnesota-based employers including C.H. Robinson, 3M, the University of Minnesota, Cargill, and Burlington Northern. One of the firm's cases, Jenson v. Eveleth Mines, is believed to be the first sexual harassment class action in the country and inspired the recent Warner Bros. feature film North Country.
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Susan Coler designated as "Minnesota Super Lawyer."
Sprenger & Lang attorney Susan Coler is listed as a "Super Lawyer" in the August/September issue of Minnesota Law & Politics and the August issue of Twin Cities Business. Selection is based on peer recognition and professional achievement, and the list includes only 5% of the lawyers in Minnesota. Coler is involved in the firm's class action employment and consumer practice and also litigates qui tam claims under the False Claims Act.
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In a struggling economy, employees must be vigilant about what their employer does with their money
All of us are feeling the effects of this struggling economy, so we must be vigilant about where our money is going and if our employer is using the money for its intended purpose.
W. Iris Barber and Jacqueline A. Olson, Sprenger + Lang
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Supreme Court's pregnant pause painful for many retiring women
With all eyes locked last week on Colleen Hauser, the Sleepy Eye mother who was on the lam with her ailing 13-year-old son, it was easy to miss the story of another mother fighting the system.
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Sprenger & Lang Files Lawsuit Against 3M Company For Age Discrimination
Current and former employees of 3M Company (NYSE: MMM) filed a class action lawsuit today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the Minnesota-based corporation alleging age discrimination in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), according to their attorneys at Sprenger & Lang, AARP Foundation Litigation, and Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian. The potential class of plaintiffs includes more than 6,000 current and former 3M employees, including approximately 50 men and women who have already opted in to the lawsuit.
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Sprenger + Lang Investigating Professions Where Women Make Less Than Men
For nearly twenty years, Sprenger + Lang has been committed to securing justice for women in employment discrimination class actions. As part of that commitment, Sprenger + Lang is working to eliminate the wage gap between men and women. Sprenger + Lang is actively investigating gender discrimination claims in professions where women have historically made less than men, such as pharmacists, higher education administrators, bank loan officers, claims adjusters, residential and commercial property managers, compliance officers and human resources professionals.
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Sprenger + Lang Investigating Claims of Discrimination in the Financial Services Industry
Sprenger + Lang has brought its expertise in employment discrimination to the financial services industry. For example, in 2001 Sprenger + Lang settled a class-wide gender discrimination claim against American Express Financial Advisors for $31 million and significant programmatic relief. In 2007, Sprenger + Lang settled class-wide claims of gender discrimination against Morgan Stanley for $46 million and wide-reaching programmatic relief.
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Laid Off Workers May Not Have Received Proper Notice
Sprenger + Lang, PLLC, is actively investigating claims that companies are failing to provide legally-required notice before laying off or terminating employees. Under a federal law called the WARN Act, employers with more than 100 employees must provide 60 days of notice or 60 days pay before a layoff or termination of more than 50 employees if certain other criteria are also met. If you have been fired or laid off with little or no notice or severance pay, you may have rights under the WARN Act.
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Best Buy and Household Bank® Credit Card, through its issuer, HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A., May Fail to Honor Their Credit Card "Account Shield" Debt Cancellation Program
Sprenger + Lang announced today that it has launched a class action investigation into whether Best Buy and Household Bank ® Credit Card, through its issuer, HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A., honor the "Account Shield" debt cancellation protections offered in certain credit card plans. When consumers apply for a Best Buy credit card, they may be offered "Account Shield," which is a program designed to provide customers with a variety of debt cancellation protections in the event the policy holder becomes disabled or unable to make their credit card payments for other reasons. Account Shield may also provide replacement coverage for items purchased under the Account Shield plan in the event of accidental loss or damage.
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Sprenger + Lang, Terrell Marshall & Daudt and the Law Office of Kimberlee L. Gunning, Appointed Interim Class Counsel in Class Action Lawsuit Against Qwest Communications International, Inc.
By Order dated January 9, 2009, the Honorable Thomas J. Zilly appointed Sprenger & Lang, PLLC, Terrell Marshall & Daudt and the Law Office of Kimberlee L. Gunning as interim class counsel in the action styled as Vernon et al. v. Qwest Communications International et al. The multi-state lawsuit seeks to void a $200 "Early Termination Fee" Qwest charges its internet service customers who cancel their service before the expiration of a purported term commitment. The class, if approved, would cover Qwest customers in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
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SPRENGER + LANG PROMOTES ONE OF ITS ASSOCIATES
Daniel C. Bryden was recently named Partner at the law firm of Sprenger + Lang. Dan joined Sprenger + Lang as an Associate in September 2006. Since that time, Dan has been instrumental to the firm's expanding consumer protection practice. In 2007 and 2008, Dan was named a "Rising Star" by Minnesota Law & Politics.
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Sprenger + Lang, PLLC and Sweetnam LLC Form Strategic Alliance, Announce Opening of Sprenger + Lang / Sweetnam LLC in Chicago
The expansion of Sprenger + Lang’s consumer fraud and consumer protection practice continues through the formation of a strategic alliance with Sweetnam LLC. Sweetnam LLC is a class action litigation boutique founded by William M. Sweetnam, an attorney who has dedicated his career to representing victims of fraud at the hands of corporations, insurance companies and financial institutions. Sweetnam will manage Sprenger + Lang / Sweetnam’s consumer fraud practice in Chicago, Illinois.
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Older and Out: Age Discrimination in the Workplace
We've witnessed the rise of civil rights, women's rights, animal rights. Now, with a recession looming, we're going to get nudged out of our jobs because of our age? We don't think so. MORE reports.
Amy Engeler / MORE
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Sprenger + Lang Announces Class Action Lawsuit Against Becker County, Minnesota for Monitoring and Recording Attorney/Client Privileged Telephone Calls
Sprenger + Lang, PLLC announced today that it has filed a civil rights class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota against Becker County, Minnesota and several law enforcement officials. The lawsuit alleges that Becker County illegally monitored and/or recorded confidential and privileged telephone calls between inmates at the jail and their attorneys.
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Sprenger + Lang, Terrell Marshall & Daudt and the Law Office of Kimberlee L. Gunning, Announce Class Action Lawsuit Against Qwest Communications International, Inc.
Two former internet service customers of Qwest Communications International, Inc. ("Qwest") today filed a multi-state class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The lawsuit seeks to void a $200 "Early Termination Fee" Qwest charges customers who cancel their service before the expiration of a purported term commitment, generally of two years. The class, if approved, would cover Qwest customers in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
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Sprenger + Lang Files Wage and Hour Class Action Complaint Against U.S. Steel Alleging Violations of Minnesota Law
Sprenger + Lang, PLLC filed a class action lawsuit today against U.S. Steel in St. Louis County, Minnesota challenging U.S. Steel's practice of not compensating its employees for all time the employees are required to be on U.S. Steel property.
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Sprenger + Lang and Schneider Wallace File Consumer Class Action Complaint Against DirecTV, Inc. Alleging Unlawful Early Termination Fees
Sprenger + Lang, PLLC and Schneider, Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky LLP filed a class action lawsuit today against DirecTV Group, Inc. (“DirecTV”) in the Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles challenging DirecTV’s imposition of early termination fees against its customers. The lawsuit alleges that under DirecTV’s normal procedures, customers never enter into a valid contract to pay this type of charge. They also claim that, even if customers signed an agreement, the early termination fees constitute illegal punitive damages on customers.
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Attorney Steven Sprenger: TV Writers' Lawsuits Get Momentum
Washington, DC: “Employers aren’t that concerned that they are violating age discrimination laws,” says attorney Steven Sprenger. “They think there is a relationship between employment and age, and as you get older people should just exit the workforce.”
Brenda Craig/LawyersandSettlements.com
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Sprenger + Lang, PLLC Announces Class Action Investigation of Bank of America's "Free" Checking Accounts
Sprenger & Lang, PLLC announced today that it has launched an investigation into whether Bank of America's "free checking" customers are being charged an improper "account maintenance fee" each month. Bank of America represents that customers who have Regular or Advantage checking accounts will not be charged account maintenance fees if they maintain certain minimum balances in either their checking account or a linked savings, money market, CD or IRA account. Some customers have complained, however, that even when they maintain the required minimum balance in one of these accounts, they are still charged a monthly account maintenance fee.
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Sprenger & Lang Announces Investigation of DirecTV Business Practices.
Sprenger & Lang, PLLC announced today that it has launched an investigation into the business practices of DirecTV. DirecTV, a Delaware corporation headquartered in Los Angeles County, California, provides satellite television to customers throughout the United States. While DirecTV is a satellite television company, both installers and customers have complained that DirecTV nonetheless requires land-based telephone service to receive its service. Land-based telephone service is not necessary to receive a satellite television signal.
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Are Comments And Conduct That Are Not Directed At A Plaintiff Sufficient To Make Out A Claim Of A Sexually Hostile Work Environment? Eleventh Circuit Holds They Can Be.
An analysis of the Eleventh Circuit’s recent decision in Reeves v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., ___ F.3d ___ (11th Cir. 2008).
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The case: Older Writers get a legal assist in an age bias suit against Hollywood
Larry Mintz remembers the salad days when he and his partner earned an annual salary in the mid-six figures writing comedy scripts for such shows as Mork & Mindy and The Nanny. Today, at 58, Mintz, of Marina del Rey, Calif., ekes out his living as a substitute teacher in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. His finances, he says, are very tight.
Emily Sachar/AARP Bulletin
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Sprenger & Lang Win Reversal In Employment Discrimination Case
It doesn’t happen often, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit reversed a lower court’s summary judgment decision to dismiss an employment discrimination lawsuit, putting a feather into the cap of Washington-based Sprenger & Lang.
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3M Workers’ Suit Made Class Action
Whitaker v. 3M (article summary)
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3M discrimination suit wins class action status
A lawsuit against 3M Co. was given class-action status Tuesday in a Ramsey County court. The suit against Maplewood-based manufacturer 3M (NYSE: MMM) over alleged age-discrimination may include as many as up to 6,000 current and former of the company's employees who are over the age of 45.
Carrisa Wyant -- Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
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