Chipotle is setting aside its problems and going on a hiring spree. The company, which has struggled in recent months with an E. coli outbreak and a lawsuit accusing it of mistreating workers, plans to offer jobs to 5,000 people across the country on Sept. 28. A spokesman said Chipotle needs the staff as it opens more than 200 of its Mexican-style restaurants this year.
Class action lawsuits against municipalities are becoming more common, particularly those over water and sewer billing. Litigation attorney Soni Mithani, a Principal at Miller Canfield in Ann Arbor, took time to educate officials about these types of suits at the Michigan Municipal …
Twitter is being sued by a shareholder over claims that it misled investors about its prospects for growth. Doris Shenwick has accused the company of making false statements about the company’s predicted user count and user engagement levels, causing wild fluctuations in Twitter’s stock prices. Shenwick claims Twitter executives misled investors in November 2014 when they promised an increase …
News Report | September 18, 2016 On August 6, 2016, the Delaware Department of Correction (DOC) agreed to a settlement calling for improvement in how the DOC handles solitary confinement of offenders with mental illness. Specifically, the DOC significantly limit the length of time that can be served in disciplinary housing at all DOC prisons. Further, the agreement includes language to support …
Many people do not think that side effects of an otherwise harmless prescription medication can kill you. While many of the outcomes don’t end in death, these medications can cause lasting damage. There are times when proper research isn’t done during clinical trials or a drug was rushed out to the public.
A New Jersey couple on Friday filed a class-action lawsuit against Costco Wholesale, alleging that the warehouse retailer is illegally charging sales tax on toilet tissues — a product exempt from the state’s 7% sales tax — CNBC reports. Jacqueline Taufield and Robert Arnold say that they were charged sales tax when they bought Charmin toilet tissue on July 26, 2015 from a Costco location in …
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Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and others agreed to a $2.5 million settlement to end their part of a lawsuit brought over Rhode Island’s disastrous $75 million deal with 38 Studios, his failed video game company. If approved by the judge overseeing the lawsuit, the agreement filed Monday with four 38 Studios officials brings an …
The Galaxy Note 7 has been nothing short of an unmitigated disaster for Samsung. Following a seemingly endless number of reports involving Note 7 devices catching fire or even exploding, Samsung took an unprecedented step of issuing a global recall for its flagship device earlier this month. An official Note 7 recall program through the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was initiated …
A former Pizza Hut franchisee is hoping to force the fast-food giant back to court to compensate franchisees for losing fistfuls of dough selling unprofitable pizzas. Pizza Hut was Adam Gordon’s life. He started washing dishes and making dough for the family restaurant at 14, he was a shift manager at 17, an assistant manager at 18 and a store manager at 20.