Successes
Natalie won summary judgment for her client in an anti-trust class action case that was pending in the United States District Court of the Southern District of Illinois (March 2018)
Natalie successfully settled a class action case in Missouri involving alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (February 2018)
Natalie assisted in defeating plaintiffs’ motion for class certification in an anti-trust class action case that was pending in the United States District Court of the Southern District of Illinois (January 2018)
Natalie successfully negotiated a settlement of a class action case involving the titling of vehicles and alleged violations of the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act (October 2017)
Natalie successfully settled a class action case that was pending in the Circuit Court of St. Louis City, Missouri regarding the “natural” label on a food product (August 2017)
Natalie successfully negotiated a settlement in a class action case in Missouri involving a cleaning product (March 2017)
Natalie successfully negotiated a settlement in a class action case that was pending in federal court in Arkansas concerning alleged violations of the Deceptive Trade Practices Act for balance billing (March 2017)
Natalie successfully settled a class action case pending in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri involving alleged violations of the Landlord-Tenant Act and Missouri Merchandising Practices Act (February 2017)
Natalie assisted as local counsel in obtaining preliminary and final approval of a class action settlement for a case involving alleged violations of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (January 2017)
Natalie assisted in successfully partially decertifying an anti-trust class in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Illinois (September 2016)
Natalie won a motion to dismiss in a class action case that was pending in the Western District of Missouri, in which plaintiff was alleging violations of 42 U.S.C. 1983 and the Religious Land Use Institutionalized Persons Act (February 2015)
Natalie successfully defended companion putative class actions in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri on behalf of a national mortgage lender and servicer. The litigations involved alleged violations of the Missouri Second Mortgage statute, including primary claims that arose under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act. In both cases, dismissal/summary judgment was obtained on the client’s behalf based primarily on statute of limitations grounds. The dismissal was affirmed by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and was final when a Petition for Writ of Certiorari was recently denied by the United States Supreme Court. (2014/2015)
Tuttle v. STERIS Corp. Natalie won summary judgment for her client in a contentious products liability case (March 2014)
Burbridge v. Harsco Corporation, et al., Natalie assisted in trying and winning a defense verdict in a case involving a train conductor alleging permanent eye injuries from shattered glass from a train accident (March 2012)
