A new class-action lawsuit claims that an electric company deceived Maine consumers and shorted them of $35 million. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland Nov. 18 claims that Electricity Maine used fraud and deception to enroll 200,000 Maine households and small businesses with the promise of substantial cost savings. But attorney Benjamin Donahue says after a …
Courts may now approach slack-fill suits with greater skepticism when a manufacturer accurately labels its net weight following an amended opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, according to a lip balm lawsuit. Sugar lip balm by Fresh, Inc. | Fresh, Inc. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ended a class-action lawsuit in March against Fresh Inc. over the lip balm …
It looks like the BLU Products saga isn’t over yet, as the US-based company is now facing a lawsuit over the backdoor that was discovered on its smartphones last week. For those of you who don’t remember, security contractors found a backdoor in the form of pre-installed software that monitors the location of the smartphone’s user, as well as whom they talk to and what they write in their text …
The lawsuit claims that AMD bosses, including Rory Read and Lisa Su, made “false and misleading statements to investors about the manufacturing and subsequent launch of, as well as the demand for, its Llano microprocessor” back in 2011 and 2012. Their case claims that AMD and its management violated the Securities Exchange Act. The court has ruled that anyone who bought AMD stock between April …
San Francisco-based Wells Fargo Bank (WFC), one of the largest banks in the US, is trying to push its customers to resolve the lawsuits that they are bringing over the opening of unauthorized accounts through private arbitration, instead of in a courtroom, according to legal documents filed Wednesday. The bank asked the US District Court in Utah to order dozens of customers to settle their …
Last week, president-elect Donald Trump settled the pending Trump University case to the tune of $25 million. The lawsuit has attracted a great deal of attention in recent months. It had been scheduled for November 28 before Judge Jeffrey Miller mediated an outcome that appears to have been mutually satisfactory for all parties.
Wells Fargo & Co. enriched itself at its employees’ expense by including costly, in-house target date funds in its 401(k) plan, a new class action complaint alleges ( Meiners v. Wells Fargo & Co. , D. Minn., No. 0:16-cv-03981, complaint filed 11/22/16 ). In the past year, several proposed class actions have targeted financial companies that include in-house investment products in …
Black Lives Matter protestors who were arrested last summer while demonstrating after Alton Sterling was shot and killed by police in Baton Rouge, La., will receive financial compensation from local and state authorities for $100,000. The 92 protestors, including DeRay Mckesson , accused them of excessive force and violating their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly, …
If you purchased shares of Allstate and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn ( [email protected] ). If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition …
A new lawsuit accuses New Jersey police officers of unjustly strip searching a honeymooning man at a mall and mocking his genitals. The unidentified 38-year-old man filed a discrimination lawsuit in Bergen County Superior Court on Wednesday. The lawsuit says security at the Westfield Garden State Plaza mall stopped the man in November 2015 after he was accused of shoplifting.