August 2013

Law Office of Andrew Morganti, JD, LL.M. announces that the Amended Statement of Claim against BP p.l.c. was issued

After harvesting evidence that BP published core documents with misrepresentations about its IEP, OMS, and OSRP, as well as its clean-up efforts of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and related oil spill, Plaintiff issued a Fresh as Amended Statement of Claim.  Importantly, Plaintiff now focuses on when BP was a “reporting issuer” under the relevant provincial securities act until January 13, 2009.  The action is styled as Kaynes v. BP, p.l.c., CV-12-00467836-00CP (J. Conway).

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Morganti Legal, P.C. partners up with Morgan & Morgan, P.C. to represent consumers that purchased imported vehicles and paid a destination charge

This lawsuit is brought as a class action against many of the largest transocean shipping companies that ship millions of vehicles that are manufactured overseas and imported into United States.  The claim alleges that since October 2008 the shipping companies engaged in a conspiracy to fix, raise, maintain and/or stabilize prices, and allocate the market and customers.  During 2011 and 2012, the Canadian Competition Bureau, Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Japanese Fair Trade Commission, and European Commission Competition Authority conducted unannounced visits on these shipping companies.  The action was filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

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Client alleges that Detroit-based Metro International Trade Services LLC manipulated the aluminum market in North America

Michigan-based scrap metal dealership retained Morganti Legal, P.C. to lodge an monopolization claim against Metro International Trade Services LLC for abusing its market power in the warehousing of London Metal Exchange approved brands of aluminum in North America resulting aluminum in the spot market being over priced.  The action is styled as VIVA Railings LLC and Regal Recycling, Inc. v. Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated, GS Power Holdings LLC, and Metro International Trade Services LLC, 13-CV-5537 (S.D.N.Y.)

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