Uber says it will not install a tipping function – because the company believes tipping is unfair due to customers’ unconscious racial biases. The company pointed to a 2008 Cornell University study that indicated ‘consumers of both races discriminate against black service providers by tipping them less than white service providers,’ the Boston Globe reported. According to an Uber spokesperson …
Hackers broke into Wendy’s computer systems and stole data from potentially millions of cards used at its restaurants between 22 October 2015 and 10 March 2016. Now, according to the Courthouse News Service, Pittsburgh-based First Choice Federal Credit Union has filed a suit on behalf of banks with affected customers claiming that the burger chain “refused to take steps to adequately protect …
Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, reminds investors in Tailored Brands, Inc. (“Tailored Brands” or the “Company”) (NYSE:TLRD) of the May 31, 2016 deadline to seek the role of lead plaintiff in a federal securities class action lawsuit filed against the Company and certain officers. The lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. …
Because the American credit reporting system relies on both good and bad reports of creditworthiness, a consumer must have some kind of credit—not just the absence of bad credit. (In some countries, the lack of a credit report can establish good credit). “The American system, on other hand, relies on total surveillance,” writes Chris Jay Hoofnagle in his primer on privacy law and the Federal …
Cash America (CSH) Alert: Johnson & Weaver, LLP Launches an Investigation into the Fairness of Price and Process in Proposed Sale of Cash America International, Inc.; Are Shareholders Getting a Fair Deal? Apr 28, 2016, 12:32 ET from Johnson & Weaver, LLP SAN DIEGO, April 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Shareholder rights law firm Johnson & Weaver, LLP has launched an investigation into whether the …
In the wake of a reversal in a Cuban policy that prevented those born in Cuba from taking cruises to the island, a class-action lawsuit against Carnival Cruises and its Fathom line was pulled Thursday. A notice of voluntary dismissal was filed in U.S. District Court in Miami on behalf of Francisco Marty and Amparo Sanchez, who previously had been refused bookings on Fathom’s maiden voyage from …
The complaint alleges that the Registration Statement and Prospectus issued in connection with the SPO failed to disclose material trends, events and/or uncertainties: (1) La Quinta was suffering a declining customer demand in its key Texas market; (2) there were continuous disruptions caused by the transitioning of La Quinta’s call center operations; and (3) La Quinta was was suffering a …
Textura (TXTR) Alert: Johnson & Weaver, LLP Launches an Investigation into the Fairness of Price and Process in Proposed Sale of Textura Corporation; Are Textura Shareholders Getting a Fair Price? Apr 28, 2016, 09:11 ET from Johnson & Weaver, LLP SAN DIEGO, April 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Shareholder rights law firm Johnson & Weaver, LLP has launched an investigation into whether the board …
The New York primary election fiasco appears like it is not going to abate anytime soon. As reported earlier by the Inquisitr, more than three million Independent voters — amounting to 27 percent of the electorate — were not allowed to cast their ballots in the New York primary held on April 19. The state’s closed primary system requires Independent voters to change their party affiliations six …
The major film studios, their trade association and theater owners don’t want to be held hostage to any misguided morality play — not one that seeks to force them not to have any movies with tobacco imagery rated G, PG or PG-13. On Friday, they filed court papers asking a judge to reject a putative class action that blames them for children becoming addicted to nicotine. The lawsuit was filed …