The term “Big Soda” gets thrown around a lot to describe how soda companies have a tendency to act like the big, bad oil and tobacco companies who wield immense lobbying power and advertising budgets to match. It might sound like an exaggeration to compare the big three soda companies (The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group) to corporations like Philip Morris, but a …
The first facial scrub you probably used was St. Ives Apricot Scrub, a viscous, gloppy paste speckled with granules of crushed walnut shells that you rubbed on your teenaged visage in an attempt to sandblast your way out of acne, operating under the assumption that it was good for you. As it turns out, that might not be the case and Unilever, the parent company of St. Ives, is …
A FEDERAL JUDGE is expected next month to officially vacate the landmark lawsuit brought against the D.C. government for its care of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. That the District has apparently been able to satisfy the court’s …
Wells Fargo Advisors has reached a $35.5 million settlement with a group of African-American financial advisers who claimed the firm discriminated against them due to their race. The group of six brokers, with lead plaintiff Lance Slaughter, are joined by 325 confirmed African American brokers or trainees at the firm, said Linda Friedman, the attorney for the class plaintiffs. There could be …
In 2016, class-action lawsuits alleging that a processed food product or its labeling violated state consumer-protection laws continued to clog the federal courts, especially in California. The number of new food-related consumer class actions filed last year nearly equaled the number filed in 2015, according to a report in Food Navigator USA . It’s unclear whether these trends will hold in 2017, but there is one set of blatantly frivolous claims that should disappear this year: those that seek judicial regulation of products that contain partially hydrogenated oil (PHO), the main source of trans fat. A December 13, 2016 Southern District of California decision should …
Coca-Cola is in hot water over the health risks of sugary drinks. A lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a consumer-advocacy group, claims that Coca-Cola and industry group the American Beverage Association have misled customers regarding the health risks of consuming sugary drinks such as soda. “Each year, Coca-Cola …
Lawyers representing Dajerria Becton will speak at a news conference scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. Video of that news conference will be streamed live at the top of this page. The 16-year-old girl seen on video being slammed to the ground by a McKinney police officer at a chaotic pool party in the North Texas city a year and a half ago has filed a federal lawsuit.
Volkswagen may see its recovery costs from the diesel car emissions scandal climb higher from a potential class-action lawsuit filed in Germany. German lawyers for U.S. law firm Hausfeld have filed the suit for one car owner that’s been designed to follow what’s worked in U.S. courtrooms, according to Jan-Eike Andresen of legal-tech website My-Right.de. The legal portal is supporting these …
NEW JERSEY (CBS) — Two newborns died last summer after a MRSA outbreak in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Cooper Hospital sickened 8 infants. But only now is the incident coming to light, and it’s because of a lawsuit. A nurse employed by Cooper for one month filed suit in Middlesex County last month.
Flip or Flop ’s Tarek El Moussa and Christina El Moussa aren’t the only house-flipping reality TV stars making headlines. In Touch has learned another wealthy TV real estate personality with a similar business model — former A&E Flip This House star Armando Montelongo — is being sued in Texas by nearly 200 plaintiffs who allege his company’s $1,500 seminars were simply ruses to sell more …