Days after an anti-diversity “manifesto” went viral inside Google and infuriated thousands of its employees, over 60 current and former Google employees are now considering suing the company for sexism and pay disparities against women. According to a report in The Guardian on Tuesday, civil rights attorney James Finberg is working on bringing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the female …
Big Brother Mickey Mouse is spying on children through several of Disney’s apps, a recent federal class-action lawsuit alleges. A lawsuit filed against the Walt Disney Company last week claims that the company violated privacy protection laws by “collecting children’s personal information from 42 of its apps and sharing the data with advertisers without parental consent,” according to The …
FLINT, Mich. – Flint Mayor Karen Weaver scored a big victory in a Detroit courtroom this morning. Her attorney Kendall Williams says a U-S district court judge threw out a lawsuit filed against the mayor and the city by former city administrator Natasha Henderson. Henderson filed a motion that included claims involving the Whistleblower Act, retaliation and defamation, but the judge said there …
Another day brought another lawsuit against a major retailer for its implementation of the new Cook County soda tax. Walgreens was sued on Monday after a consumer found he was charged the tax when he purchased two bottles of unsweetened flavored water. On Tuesday, McDonald’s was accused in a suit of improperly applying the tax as part of the subtotal, meaning the county sales tax was then …
The owners of select Nissan automobiles may be entitled to multiple forms of compensation, including a $500 payment, use of a rental car and an extended warranty, after the company agreed to pay $97.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit on Tuesday. The suit was brought against the company after 4.4 million vehicles were recalled due to an issue with Takata air bag inflators, according to …
The Walt Disney Company has been slapped with a lawsuit claiming that more than 40 of its smartphone apps are illegally spying on children. The class-action lawsuit alleges that Disney is violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The law, passed in 1998, was designed to protect the privacy of children online.
In their lawsuit, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) allege the White House has turned Trump’s tweets into “official guidance … to be communicated to the Department of Defense.” They argue that this guidance infringes upon the equal protection and due process rights of trans troops. According to their complaint, the “categorical exclusion …