Representative Cases Handled by Meade & Schrag LLP: Ammari Electronics, et al. v. Pacific Bell Directory (Alameda County Case No. RG05198014). Meade & Schrag represents a certified class of all California businesses who advertised in the SBC Yellow Pages directories between February 2002 and May 2004 and are owed a refund because of incomplete distribution of the yellow pages directories. Meade & Schrag is Co-Lead Counsel. The case went to trial in May 2009 and Tyler Meade served as trial counsel together with Luke Ellis of Gillin, Jacobson, Ellis & Larsen. The jury returned a verdict for the class of over $17 million. The trial court then granted a directed verdict against the Class. The case is on appeal. Roth v. Aon Corp. (N.D. Ill. Lead Case No. 04-C-6835), a nationwide securities fraud class action. Meade & Schrag assisted Lead Counsel in discovery. The parties agreed to settle the case for $30 million and the settlement is awaiting court approval. 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. The district court appointed Meade & Schrag as Chair of the Executive Committee. The court dismissed the Complaint and the case is pending in the Ninth Circuit. Thomas v. Sprint Nextel Corp. (N.D. Cal. Case No. CV 08 5119 THE), a class action on behalf of all California consumers who paid illegal and excessive penalty fees to Sprint for paying their wireless phone bills late. Barahona v. T-Mobile USA, Inc. (W.D. Wa. Case No. 08-cv-1631 RSM), a class action on behalf of all California consumers who paid illegal and excessive late fees to T-Mobile for paying their wireless phone bills late. 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 jury trial. The jury awarded our client over $400,000 in damagaes and the case settled favorably on appeal. Westcor Land Title Ins. Co. et al. v. Johnson, et. al. (Case No. CV029723 San Jaq. County Super. Ct.), Meade & Schrag represented purchasers of real estate and obtained a $475,000 settlement from the title insurance company in damages for a defect in title. 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. The federal district court entered judgment granting final approval of this global settlement on November 3, 2009. 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. Mr. Meade's and Mr. Schrag's clients received settlements totaling more than $18 million. 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