Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency has settled a lawsuit in which it was sued for using an automated computer system that falsely accused thousands of people of fraud. The suit was dismissed Thursday by U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland under an agreement …
The Federal Trade Commission’s two-year probe of Qualcomm has led to the government filing suit against the California-based company, accusing executives of employing “onerous” tactics allowing it to “maintain a monopoly on baseband processors.” Since then, the semiconductor manufacturer has been slapped with at least two putative class action complaints filed …
Cinema chain AMC has been hit with a class lawsuit claiming the theater company wrongly added people to marketing lists to send them text messages promoting upcoming movies and encouraging other purchases. On Feb. 1, plaintiff Caleb Baldwin, identified in the document only as a Cook County resident, filed suit in Chicago federal court, alleging Leawood, Kan.-based AMC violated the federal …
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC reminds investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Novo Nordisk A/S (“Novo” or the “Company”) (NYSE:NVO) and certain of its officers, and is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons or entities who purchased Novo American Depositary Receipts (“ADR”) between April 30, 2015 and October …
Ousted Snapchat early employee Reggie Brown was paid $157.5 million in a settlement in September 2014 to close off a 2013 lawsuit he had brought against other co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, alleging that they had taken his original idea and run with it, pushing him out of the company without compensation in the process. The details were made public for the first time in Snapchat’s …
Poaching in the entertainment industry hit the news late last year when 21st Century Fox accused Netflix, Inc. of poaching employees in Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. v. Netflix Inc., SC12643. Poaching, or lack thereof (anti-poaching), hit the news this week as Disney settled …
This post contains descriptions of sexual assault. Summer Zervos, one of the multiple women who accused President Donald Trump of unwanted sexual advances, announced during a press conference on Jan. 17 that she is suing him for defamation in the wake of his broad dismissal of sexual assault allegations against him. The lawsuit, filed three days before Trump’s inauguration, is a reminder of the …
On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman filed a lawsuit in the state’s Supreme Court against Time Warner Cable and its new parent company, Spectrum. The suit alleges that Spectrum-TWC conducted “a deliberate scheme to defraud and mislead New Yorkers by promising internet service that they knew they could not deliver.” According to the suit, Spectrum-TWC promised — oh, and …
Eryon Luke, a certified nursing assistant from Louisiana, was fired from her job in 2012 after becoming pregnant with twins. Today, her legal case may determine how other pregnant and breastfeeding women are treated in the workplace. When she became pregnant, Eryon wanted to continue working and, like most people, needed her job.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Givaudan Fragrances Corporation (Fragrances) in a $500 million insurance coverage lawsuit against Aetna Casualty & Surety Company and additional insurers named as defendants. The move affirms that New Jersey policyholders do not lose coverage when a company restructures, as an anti-assignment clause is not a barrier to the post-loss assignment …