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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, six current and former female pharmaceutical sales professionals filed a $100 million class and collective action gender discrimination lawsuit against Daiichi Sankyo in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Represented by Sanford Heisler, LLP, a civil rights law firm that has successfully litigated class action cases in the industry, these women seek to end pervasive gender discrimination in their...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanford Heisler, LLP, a leading public interest law firm, today announced a $762 million global qui tam settlement with Amgen, Inc. and the United States Department of Justice. The settlement includes a $612 million civil settlement, a $14 million forfeiture and $136 million in criminal fines. Headquartered in Thousand Oaks, CA, Amgen is a leading human therapeutics company in the biotechnology industry. The whistleblower ("relator") who...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanford Heisler, LLP, a leading public interest law firm, today announced a $762 million global qui tam settlement with Amgen, Inc. and the United States Department of Justice. The settlement includes a $612 million civil settlement, a $14 million forfeiture and $136 million in criminal fines. Headquartered in Thousand Oaks, CA, Amgen is a leading human therapeutics company in the biotechnology industry. The whistleblower ("relator")...
In the news release, Six New Plaintiffs Join Sanford Heisler's $100m Gender Discrimination Class Action Against Forest Laboratories & Forest Pharmaceuticals, issued Nov. 5, 2012 by Sanford Heisler, LLP over PR Newswire, we are advised by the law firm that the dateline should read "NEW YORK" rather than "NEWARK, N.J." as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows: Six New Plaintiffs Join Sanford Heisler's $100m Gender Discrimination Class Action Against...
NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanford Heisler, LLP, today added six additional female plaintiffs to the $100 million gender discrimination employment class action complaint the firm initially filed in July against New York-based Forest Laboratories, Inc., and Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The amended complaint was filed in the federal court for the Southern District of New York this morning. It increases the number of named plaintiffs to ten and provides additional...
NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanford Heisler, LLP, a leading national civil rights law firm, today filed a gender discrimination suit seeking $3 million on behalf of a Senior Account Manager against the National Basketball Association, Inc., NBA Entertainment, Inc., and NBA Properties, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The Complaint details the NBA's alleged unlawful treatment of Plaintiff Brynn Cohn, a longtime employee who was...
