About TCL
Taus, Cebulash & Landau, LLP specializes in complex antitrust and consumer-protection class-action litigation. Our attorneys are highly qualified and prepared to manage every aspect of litigation, from investigation and inception through discovery, motion practice, and trial. We bring a cooperative, innovative, and creative approach to the practice of complex federal litigation, which allows us to provide the best possible representation for our individual and class clients.
Antitrust
TCL is and has been involved in over a dozen antitrust class actions in which we represent purchasers of pharmaceutical products. In these actions, we allege that brand-name drug companies engaged in anticompetitive conduct in order to prevent competition from less expensive, generic versions of these brand-name drugs. This conduct inflates the cost of prescription drugs for both direct drug purchasers and the patients who take those drugs. We have helped aggrieved purchasers and consumers recover hundreds of millions of dollars in pharmaceutical overcharges. For example, as class counsel in In re Glumetza Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.), we argued that the defendant illegally prevented cheaper diabetes medications from entering the market, which allowed the defendant to continue selling its own medication at inflated prices. And in that case, we helped secure a $453 million settlement—the largest of its kind.
We have also been at the forefront of antitrust enforcement and been actively involved in antitrust actions affecting the markets for auto parts, truck-stop services, contact lenses, food supplies, fire trucks, and archery equipment, among others. As Lead Counsel in Marchese v. Cablevision Systems Corp., and CSC Holdings, Inc. (D.N.J.), we argued that a major cable provider was using its monopoly power in the cable market to essentially force its subscribers to buy overpriced electronics equipment. As a result of that case, we obtained $72 million in settlement benefits for a class of cable subscribers.
Consumer Protection
TCL also advises consumers on whether and how to pursue legal action under consumer-protection statutes; for example, how to stop and/or receive compensation for the deceptive practices of large corporations. We have successfully prosecuted consumer class-action lawsuits against many of the largest U.S. banks, financial-service companies, and corporations. Working with co-counsel, we have achieved judgments and settlements in excess of $100 million for consumers in these cases. For example, TCL served as co-lead counsel in Hasemann v. Gerber (E.D.N.Y.) and Manemeit v. Gerber (E.D.NY.), two false-advertisement cases where we represented a class of New York and Florida infant-formula purchasers, and which recently settled for $31 million. We also currently serve as lead counsel in McGrath v. Suffolk County (Suffolk County Supreme Court), where we represent a class of vehicle owners who were forced to pay excessive red-light-camera tickets, and where we have obtained a judgment declaring that this excessive liability was unconstitutional.
Privacy
TCL has been active in the emerging field of electronic-privacy law. We recently obtained a settlement for a class of consumers in a case against the New England Patriots, where we argued that the team’s app was illegally sharing users’ personal-identification information; and we are currently appointed to the executive committee in a case against Amazon, which alleges that Amazon Photos is illegally collecting users’ biometric information.