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About Melody R. Dickson
Successfully represented a class of 140,000 business merchants in multi-million-dollar overbilling scheme Specialized knowledge in litigating personal injury and wrongful death claims related to tractor-trailer crashes Named to Kansas and Missouri Rising Stars for Business Litigation, Personal Injury, and Transportation Law Melody Dickson is an experienced litigator who dedicates her practice to complex commercial litigation and catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases. A zealous advocate for victims of corporate misconduct, Melody has prosecuted claims involving deceptive trade practices, financial and investment fraud.
RICO, False Claims Act, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference, and bad faith insurance disputes, among others. Recently, Melody successfully represented a certified class of more than 140,000 business merchants in a nationwide RICO class action for an extensive overbilling scheme by a credit card processor. Her relentless efforts through discovery, taking key corporate representative depositions, and working with experts helped the class of mostly small businesses secure an $84 million settlement, the largest known settlement of its kind against a national merchant acquirer.
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San Francisco Unified School District's case was the first JUUL bellwether trial against Altria; after the plaintiffs rested, Altria agreed to pay $235 million to resolve roughly 6,000 pending e-vapor claims nationwide.
A federal jury in Hammond, Indiana found that Ethicon's Prolift transvaginal mesh was defectively designed and inadequately warned against, awarding Barbara and Anton Kaiser $35 million. A judge reduced the punitive damages, leaving a $20 million verdict that the Seventh Circuit affirmed in full in 2020.
Kathryn Gant died at the scene of a head-on crash on K-58 in Kansas on June 10, 2011, after a driver crossed the center line in a no-passing zone. Her husband sued the driver, the driver's parents and the family oil company. After a five-day bench trial in June 2015, a Coffey County judge found all of them liable and awarded $6,723,021. Under a pretrial agreement, none of the judgment could be collected from the defendants themselves.
A Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google's YouTube negligent in designing platforms that harmed a young woman identified as K.G.M., who began watching YouTube at age 6 and joined Instagram at 9. On March 25, 2026, it awarded $3 million in compensatory damages, split 70 percent to Meta and 30 percent to YouTube, plus $3 million in punitive damages. It was the first bellwether trial in the coordinated California social media addiction cases.
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