David Cialkowski Email & Phone Number

David practices in the area of complex and class action litigation, with a primary focus on antitrust and consumer protection.Professional Accomplishments:Member of the legal team that represented the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office in Mississippi ex rel. Hood v. AU Optronics, 134 S. Ct. 736 (2014), where the Court unanimously held that an attorney general’s consumer protection enforcement action is not a “mass action” under the Class Action Fairness Act. David argued the case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and was on brief before the Supreme Court.Leadership steering committees, including in In re Pork Antitrust Litigation (D. Minn.), a case alleging widespread price-fixing. Dave also served as discovery team leader coordinating complex discovery in In re Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litig, 16-md-2724 (E.D. Pa.), In re Domestic Airline Travel Antitrust Litigation, 15-mc-1404 (D.D.C), and In re Hard Disk Drive Suspension Assemblies Antitrust Litigation, 19-md-291 (N.D. Cal.).Appointed to leadership positions in consumer protection class actions including class counsel on behalf of consumers in the consolidated action Hudock et al. v. LG Electronics U.S.A. Inc., 0:16-cv-01220 (D. Minn.), as a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in In re Apple iPhone 3G and 3GS “MMS” Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation, MDL 2116 (E.D. La.), co-lead counsel in In re Dockers Roundtrip Airfare Promotion Sales Practices Litigation (C.D. Cal.), and Settlement Class Counsel in Marino v. Coach, Inc., No. 16-CV-1122 (S.D.N.Y.).Member of the lead counsel team representing payment card issuers seeking to recover losses caused by the 2013 Target data breach.Member of the lead counsel team representing former NHL hockey players alleging that the NHL failed to disclose and downplayed the long term effects of brain injuries. Member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee team in the Fedex Ground Package Systems employment status litigation, MDL 1700. Represented hundreds of residents in In re Soo Line Railroad Company Derailment of January 18, 2002 in Minot, N.D., who were injured by the toxic spill caused by the derailment of a Canadian Pacific Railway train; drafted federal legislation passed to eliminate Federal Railway Safety Act preemption in that case.

Listed skills include Class Actions, Litigation, Appeals, Torts, and 10 others.

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  Attorney

  Zimmerman Reed

  2001 - Present

  David Cialkowski is an attorney at Zimmerman Reed in Minneapolis,and practices in the area of complex and class action litigation, with a primary focus on antitrust liability and employee rights.