Current Investigations
Girard Sharp attorneys are investigating securities claims on behalf of Acadia Healthcare (NASDAQ: ACHC) investors who sustained losses greater than $100,000.
Girard Sharp attorneys are investigating claims that Depo-Provera, a hormone-replacement drug used primarily for contraception, may significantly increase the risk of meningioma, a type of brain tumor, bone density loss and osteoporosis, a condition causing weak and brittle bones.
Girard Sharp consumer protection attorneys are investigating reports that some 2020-2023 Hyundai Palisade vehicles are equipped with potentially defective second-row seatbelts that can potentially become unbuckled when the vehicle is in motion.
Results
Girard Sharp served as co-lead counsel in a certified securities class action on behalf of investors of Maxar Technologies, Ltd. (NYSE: MAXR) regarding alleged violations of federal securities laws for material misstatements and omissions associated with the performance and economic outlook of one of its core business units. The court granted preliminary approval of a $36.5 million settlement in June 2023.
Girard Sharp served as co-lead counsel in the certified product defect class action against Apple on behalf of purchasers of MacBook laptops equipped with Apple’s allegedly defective butterfly keyboard. The court granted final approval of a $50 million settlement in May 2023.
Girard Sharp represents IVF patients of Pacific Fertility Center whose eggs and embryos were damaged or destroyed in a cryopreservation tank failure. On June 11, 2021, after a three-week trial, a jury found the tank manufacturer, Chart Industries Inc., liable for a defect in the tank and for its negligent failure to recall a part that malfunctioned, a “controller” meant to monitor liquid nitrogen levels. The jury awarded more than $14 million in damages to three women who lost eggs and a married couple who lost embryos in the catastrophic March 2018 tank failure. The three women were each awarded between $2 million and $3 million, and the couple was awarded $7.2 million. Girard Sharp represents over 80 families who lost reproductive material in the tank failure.
Pending Cases
Girard Sharp serves as interim co-lead counsel in the Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation, a multidistrict litigation pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Girard Sharp filed the first digital advertising monopoly class action against Google, several months before the U.S. Department of Justice and a group of state attorneys general sued Google for monopolization.
Co-lead counsel in class action alleging defective electronic system resulting in premature battery failures in Subaru vehicles.
Representing purchasers of GWG Holdings, Inc. in a class action lawsuit alleging that the company may have made false and misleading statements to investors in connection with the issuance and sale of L Bonds.
