Representative Cases Handled by Meade & Schrag LLP: Ammari Electronics, et al. v. Pacific Bell Directory (Alameda County Case No. RG05198014). Meade & Schrag LLP is Co-Lead Class Counsel in this class action on behalf of California businesses who advertised in the SBC Yellow Pages directories and are owed a refund because of incomplete distribution of the yellow pages directories. On August 30, 2007, the superior court certified a statewide class of California businesses who advertised in directories published between February 2002 and May 2004. In re Late Fee and Over-Limit Fee Litigation (N.D. Cal. Case No. C-07-0634-SBA), a nationwide antitrust and National Bank Act class action on behalf of credit cardholders who paid exorbitant late fees and over-limit fees. On May 15, 2007, the district court appointed Meade & Schrag as Chair of the Executive Committee. The matter is currently on appeal to the Ninth Circuit after the district court granted a defense motion to dismiss. In re LTL Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation (MDL No. 1895), an antitrust case alleging price fixing in the less-than-full load trucking industry. Roth v. Aon Corporation, et al. (N.D. Ill. Case No. 04-C-6835), a securities class action in which Meade & Schrag is assisting lead counsel (Coughlin Stoia, et al.) with discovery. Greene v. J.C. Penney, et al. (Alameda County Case No. RG05248183), a workplace injury case involving a carpenter who lost functional use of his left arm after being ordered to perform a task he was not qualified to perform. We defeated defendants’ arguments that Privette required a dismissal and prevailed at a June 2007 trial. The case settled on appeal. Representative Cases Handled by Mr. Meade & Mr. Schrag Before 2006: Credit and Debit Card Currency Conversion Fee Litigation. Mr. Schrag was part of the trial team in Schwartz v. Visa, et al. (Alameda County Case No. 822402-4), a UCL action against Visa and MasterCard for failing to disclose a currency conversion fee charged to cardholders who used credit cards in foreign countries. He also worked on Shrieve v. Visa USA, Inc., et al. (Alameda County Case No. RG04155097), a parallel class action on behalf of debit cardholders, and In Re Currency Conversion Fee Litigation (MDL No. 1409), an antitrust class action alleging a conspiracy to fix the price of currency conversion fees against Visa, MasterCard, Bank of America, Citibank, Chase and other banks. After a successful six month trial in Schwartz, a $336 million settlement agreement was reached to resolve all currency conversion fee actions. This settlement received preliminary approval from the federal court in MDL No. 1409. A final approval hearing was held on March 31, 2008. In re Hip Replacement Cases (JCCP 4165) and the related case of In Re Sulzer Hip Prosthesis and Knee Prosthesis Liability Litigation (MDL No. 1410), a nationwide products liability action against Sulzer Orthopedics, a company that manufactured defective hip and knee implants. Mr. Meade was appointed to the Plaintiff’s Executive Committee in JCCP 4165 while Schrag & Baum, Mr. Schrag’s former firm, was appointed Co-Lead Plaintiff’s Counsel. MDL No. 1410 settled for over one billion dollars. Dailey v. Central Freight Lines, et al. (Alameda County Case No. HG0392762), a sexual harassment case in which Mr. Meade uncovered prior similar misconduct that was hidden from plaintiff during discovery, and blatantly false deposition testimony. Mr. Meade won a trial in 2005, obtaining a judgment of $590,000 in compensatory and punitive damages. The case settled on appeal. Click here for an article discussing this victory in the Daily Journal. Meade & Schrag LLP | 1816 Fifth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710 | 510-843-3670