More than 100 Scranton landlords recently joined a pending class-action lawsuit that challenges the city’s rental registration fees as arbitrary and excessive, and seeks refunds. The city’s revision of rental registration rules in 2014, imposing fees of $150 per building, $50 per unit and inspections, spurred a lawsuit in 2015 in Lackawanna County Court from landlord Adam Guiffrida. His lawsuit …
He insisted that fewer than half of the UK vehicles caught up in the Volkswagen emissions scandal had been fixed. Around 470,000 of the 1.2m vehicles fitted with software to cheat environmental tests had been dealt with, he said. But he was attacked for failing to give answers to straight answers, repeatedly using phrases such as “to the best of my knowledge” and “I can’t recall” and last week …
Some of the largest pet food suppliers in the country have been overcharging pet owners by charging more for prescription dog food when it doesn’t actually include any medicine, according to a Greenville lawyer who is working on a class-action lawsuit against those pet food manufactures. Lynwood Evans, a lawyer at Ward and Smith P.A.’s Greenville office, is working on the lawsuit along with …
The horrific death of an auto parts worker in Ionia, Michigan in 2015, now the subject of a lawsuit, sheds light on the brutal regime existing among this section of workers, some of the most exploited in the United States. William Holbrook filed a wrongful death …
Nearly 3,000 people died when hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., and a Pennsylvania field. Advertisement The Saudi government has long denied involvement. Lawyers for the government and the charity, the Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia & Herzegovina, on Friday declined to comment or could not immediately be reached …
Zakaria Hagig filed suit against President Trump over his initial travel ban. DENVER – A full time student at the Community College of Denver, who is from Libya, is claiming victory in the lawsuit he filed over President Trump’s initial travel ban. The travel ban went into effect January 27.
A Beijing court has overturned a ruling that Apple’s iPhone 6 violated a Chinese manufacturer’s patent which saw the US tech giant ordered to cease selling the smartphone in China. In May last year the Beijing intellectual property bureau had ruled that Apple violated design patents of Chinese maker Shenzhen Baili with its iPhone6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and would be barred from selling those …
Three angry Windows 10 users have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft over botched Windows 10 upgrades, which plaintiffs claim destroyed their data, damaged computers, and incurred lost time and money. In their complaint, the three accuse Microsoft of launching a product (Windows 10) that was not “fit for the ordinary purposes for which such goods are used,” and not “adequately contained, …
The Columbia University student accused of raping “mattress girl” Emma Sulkowicz lost his second attempt at suing the university for discrimination — and this time the judge told him not to come back. On Friday, Manhattan federal judge Gregory Woods tossed Paul Nungesser’s latest lawsuit, which seeks to hold the Ivy League school responsible for the backlash and humiliation he suffered from …
Harbor Freight, a national tool and equipment retailer with more than 750 stores nationwide, has settled a class-action lawsuit which could get shoppers up to 30 percent back on their purchases. If you made a purchase at Harbor Freight between April 8, 2011 and Dec. 15, 2016, you could receive benefits from the settlement. A court granted preliminary approval of the settlement on Dec. 15, 2016.