The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear appeals by Visa Inc, Mastercard Inc and several U.S. banks seeking to throw out lawsuits claiming they conspired to inflate the prices of ATM access fees in violation of antitrust …
Volkswagen owners can finally dump their cheatin’ cars, if they want to. The German automaker has agreed to an unprecedented U.S. settlement to make things right after admitting that it programmed about half a million of its diesel cars to cheat on emissions tests. When driven on the road, the vehicles put out levels of nitrogen oxide well above U.S. pollution standards.
Des Moines’ franchise fee debate is close to its conclusion after nearly a decade, but Des Moines residents are still waiting for refunds from the franchise fee settlement. Get breaking news and weather alerts anywhere you go with the free KCCI 8 News App. Those who paid a utility bill in the city between 2004 and 2009 may quality.
Throughout the Democratic primary, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been hit with many casual accusations of putting her thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton. Now she’s been served with a class action lawsuit, making the accusations official. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday by Miami-based law firm Beck & Lee on behalf of a group of people who donated money to the Bernie Sanders campaign, …
Handing a victory to Facebook, a federal judge has ruled that the company won’t have to face a class-action lawsuit for allegedly violating its privacy policy by “leaking” people’s personal information to advertisers. U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte said this week that class-action treatment isn’t appropriate because “individualized questions will predominate” in the dispute. Most of …
After struggling with addiction and mental illness, Jayne Fuentes served her time, found a job and got her life back on track. But even though she’d been sober and crime-free for years, one thing dogged her: fear of being jailed or forced to do physical labor because she can’t afford to pay the government. Jayne is among the scores of people who owe Benton County, Washington thousands of …
Shareholder rights law firm Johnson & Weaver, LLP has launched an investigation into whether the board members of Diamond Resorts International, Inc. (NYSE: DRII) breached their fiduciary duties in connection with the proposed sale of the Company to Apollo Global Management, LLC. On June 29, 2016, Diamond Resorts announced it had signed a definitive …
The biggest money-damages antitrust settlement in U.S. history died Thursday at the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals. Not because of last year’s scandal surrounding leaks to a onetime MasterCard lawyer since charged with fraud, but because the agreement between credit card giants MasterCard, Visa and the merchants suing them for inflating certain fees was fundamentally unfair to some of the retailers. …
A $7.25 billion settlement between merchants and Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. over credit card transaction fees was rejected Thursday by a federal appeals court, a ruling praised by a retail trade association as a victory for consumers. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the 12 million merchants covered by the antitrust class action were inadequately represented by law …
Volkswagen’s $15 billion settlement of lawsuit into allegations it cheated emissions tests, which spurred a national investigation, won’t include Oklahoma. Attorney General Scott Pruitt filed his own lawsuit just two weeks before Volkswagen announced the settlement. The consumer protection complaint that will be heard in Oklahoma County isn’t part of the class action lawsuit, or 44-state …