‘Political finger-pointing’ Cummings vowed an investigation and requested that Snyder “produce all emails, communications, and other documents relating to how you and your staff planned, developed and released your 75 point plan, including your internal discussions about how and when to involve Mayor Weaver and others in the process.” Snyder’s spokesman, Ari Adler, in a statement said the …
Uber is on the hook for $10 million after settling a California lawsuit over its misleading statements regarding driver background checks. In 2014, the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco sued the ride-hailing company for claiming its background checks were the most thorough in the industry. In fact, Uber failed to take drivers’ fingerprints like many taxi companies do.
A California judge issued a preliminary ruling Thursday rejecting Lyft’s $12.25 million settlement with some of its drivers. US District Judge Vince Chhabria said the settlement amount would have “shortchanged” drivers, according to Reuters. “We’re disappointed in the preliminary ruling.”
It’s college acceptance season. Millions of students are now weighing their options about where to spend the next four years of their lives. As they do, they will likely turn to premier college rankings guides such as The Princeton Review, an independent organization that has offered data on colleges and universities for more than three decades.
ST. LOUIS • A St. Louis jury delivered a defense verdict Thursday in a class-action suit that was seeking about $1.5 billion from tobacco giant Philip Morris. The jury deliberated less than an hour after a month-long trial, in which the plaintiffs alleged the company had deceived customers into believing light cigarettes were safer than regular cigarettes when they weren’t. The outcome would …
The lawsuit accuses Mayor Bill de Blasio’s education department of failing to keep children safe in schools. Ten parents backed by a powerful charter-school advocacy group have sued New York City schools, alleging that the nation’s largest school system has failed to address escalating levels …
A year and a half after Sony Pictures was devastated in a massive hack that saw thousands of employees’ personal information ending up exposed online, the class action lawsuit against the studio has come to an end — though legal action from the hack itself hasn’t. Today in a sometimes contentious hearing in federal court in downtown Los Angeles, a multimillion-dollar settlement stemming from …
A Tea Party group celebrated Wednesday after a federal appeals court took their side in NorCal Tea Party Patriots v. IRS. As a result, the government agency will be forced to hand over the complete list of conservative groups it targeted. Finally, the IRS is being held accountable for the scandal.
A federal judge in San Francisco has given Volkswagen one more month to meet a demand from U.S. regulators for a fix to its diesel engines. The automaker faced a deadline Thursday to create a fix acceptable to the California Clean Air Authority and the Environmental Protection Agency for diesel engines that emit more than acceptable levels of nitrogen oxides. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer …
A jury has ruled against a 37-year-old graduate of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law who claimed that the school defrauded her when she attended nearly a decade ago, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. A San Diego, California, jury ruled 9-3 in favor of the school, handing a victory to TJSL — since civil cases in that state don’t require a unanimous jury vote. During the trial, a lawyer for …