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Defendant
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Plaintiff
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Overview
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Case Title
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Arneson
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U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
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na
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Mortgage company is sued by former loan originators in Minnesota, Michigan, and Nevada who claim they are owed unpaid wages and overtime.
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Arneson et al v. American Equity Mortgage Inc., et al.
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| First Magnus Financial Corp. | Eight former employees | the Arizona Department of Labor, | $20,000 | Bankruptcy judge denies class certification to eight former employees of bankrupt First Magnus Financial Corp. that filed suit against the company based on violations of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN). | na |
| Countrywide Financial Corp. d/b/a Countrywide Home Loans Inc.; Countrywide Mortgage Ventures LLC aka Countrywide KB Home Loans | Mark Zachary | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas AND U.S. Department of Labor | na | Former regional vice president of a Countrywide Financial Corp. affiliate files lawsuit against the company alleging that he was fired for alerting executives that he wouldn’t approval fraudulent loans | na |
| SunTrust | Alan Archambault | Broward County Circuit Court, Fort Lauderdale, Florida | Damages that exceed $15,000 but are less than $75,000 | A former SunTrust Banks employee alleges in a lawsuit that he was fired in retaliation for alerting superiors to occurrences of mortgage fraud and other illegal activities — a violation of the state’s Whistleblower Act | na |
| First Magnus Financial Corp. | Anna Tran | na | $358,109 | Former branch managers of bankrupt First Magnus Financial Corp. seek to recover funds they thought they had been accumulating as part of their branch agreements over the years | na |
| Washington Mutual Inc. | Barbara Alexander, attorney Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro | U.S. District Court in Seattle, Wash. | na | WaMu employees whose 401(k) plan accounts include investments in company stock from April 18, 2006 until present, file class action accusing WaMu of ERISA violations for failing to adequately monitor the plan and advise participants when the company stock investment was no longer prudent, resulting in over $150 million in losses that employees seek to recover. | na |
