Some examples of Zeldes & Haeggquist, LLP's current and past cases:
- Zeldes & Haeggquist, LLP represents a nationwide class of consumers against Public Storage, Inc. for its alleged deceptive and misleading advertising practice of failing to inform consumers until they arrive at a Public Storage facility (often with their goods in tow) that they must buy add-on products such as locks and insurance before they can actually move in to their reserved storage unit. Hilary v. Public Storage, Inc., Case No. BC382782.
- Zeldes & Haeggquist, LLP are responsible for bringing a consumer product defect class action against Apple, Inc. on behalf of a class of over two million purchasers of an alleged defective power adapter. Gordon v. Apple, Inc., Case No. 5:06-cv-05358-JW (N.D. Cal). A nationwide settlement has been approved wherein eligible class members will receive from $25 - $79 each.
- Zeldes & Haeggquist, LLP are representing a nationwide class of indirect purchasers of iPods (i.e. people who bought an iPod from someone other than Apple, like Best Buy, Costco, etc.) alleging that Apple, Inc. maintains an illegal monopoly on the digital music market making it impossible to play music and video purchased on iTunes using other portable players. Somers v. Apple, Inc., Case No. 5:07-cv-06507-JW.
- Zeldes & Haeggquist, LLP advise business owners to help them run their businesses effectively and represent them in disputes against each other for breach of contract, partnership agreements and interference with business relations.
- Zeldes & Haeggquist, LLP represent employees in individual and class action employment discrimination and wage and hour litigation.
- Zeldes & Haeggquist, LLP have represented victims of international human rights abuses and trafficking in numerous pro bono and contingency cases.
Prior to starting Zeldes & Haeggquist, LLP, Ms. Zeldes, Ms. Haeggquist, and Ms. Eck worked for many years at the nation's largest plaintiff's class action firm, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, LLP (formerly known as Milberg Weiss) in its consumer/insurance fraud and securities class action practice groups. At Lerach Coughlin, Zeldes, Haeggquist, and Eck were instrumental in litigating class actions in which their former firm, Lerach Coughlin, was appointed head or Co-Lead Counsel.
Other nationwide class actions Ms. Zeldes litigated at Lerach Coughlin included: a wage/hour overtime action against Cintas, one of the nation's largest commercial laundries for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act for misclassifying truck drivers as salesmen to avoid payment of overtime wages; race discrimination underwriting class actions against large insurance companies for their practice of intentionally charging African-Americans and other minorities more for life insurance than similarly situated Caucasians (cases that collectively recovered over $400 million for African-Americans and other minority class members as redress for the civil rights abuses they were subject to); race discrimination underwriting class actions against insurance companies based upon the improper use of credit scoring or geographical redlining to charge minorities higher premiums against insurance giants like Allstate and State Farm; a statewide consumer class action over the propriety of a private contractor operating "red light camera" systems throughout California, Red Light Photo Enforcement Cases, Judicial Council Coordinated Proceeding No. 4305, a case which Ms. Zeldes co-chaired at trial; A multi-state antitrust action entitled In re Medical Waste Services Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1546 (D. Utah), in which plaintiffs brought claims for defendants' alleged conspiracy to allocate customers and territories in the market for the collection, transportation and disposal of medical waste, as well as for unlawful monopolization.
Ms. Haeggquist and Ms. Zeldes were also involved in the Carbon Fiber Antitrust Litigation, Case No. CV-99-7796 (C.D. Cal), in which a class of purchasers alleged that the major producers of carbon fiber fixed the price of carbon fiber from 1993 to 1999. The case ultimately settled for $675 million.
