One of the largest vacation rental sites, Airbnb, is under major scrutiny and being hit with a class-action suit for discrimination against its African-American users. The class-action suit that was held in Washington D.C. federal court on Tuesday was due to the allegations that Airbnb violated the Fair Housing Act. According to NBC Bay Area, in March 2015 25-year- …
Two Chicago policemen are suing the city of Chicago, claiming that the police department retaliated against them after they cooperated with a federal investigation into corrupt officers, and now the judge wants the mayor to take the stand, the Guardian reported. The two officers had helped the FBI uncover a narcotics team that was collecting money from drug dealers in exchange for protection. …
A former Scranton housing inspector has appealed a federal judge’s ruling that dismissed her political retaliation and gender discrimination lawsuit. Patricia Jennings-Fowler contends U.S. District Judge Malachy Mannion erred when he ruled she failed to present sufficient evidence to support her claims. Ms. Jennings-Fowler had worked for the city in various capacities since 2009.
The Fort Worth City Council on Tuesday will vote on settling a lawsuit in which it claimed Chesapeake Energy Corporation cheated taxpayers out of millions of dollars in royalties for natural gas it drilled under city land. It is not immediately clear how much the proposed settlement is worth. A notation on the council agenda said the terms will be made public but did not specify when.
Airlines have frequent flyer programs, restaurants and coffee shops have customer loyalty programs, and plaintiff’s class action firms have repeat class action plaintiffs. These frequent class plaintiffs are either unlucky or they go looking for trouble. See Beyond Systems, Inc. v. Kraft Foods, Inc., 777 F.3d 712, 714 (2015) (noting that email spam litigation accounted for 90% of plaintiff’s …
Illinois resident Yvonne Averhart was one of many who filed a class action lawsuit against SuperValu Inc. last month, alleging that the company represents that its grated Parmesan cheese product is composed of 100 percent cheese when it actually consists of a mixture of cheese and non-cheese filler substance derived from wood …
Facebook users can proceed with a class-action accusing the company of violating their privacy by scanning messages that users send to each other on the company’s platform, a federal judge has ruled. But U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton in the Northern District of California also ruled that the users can’t seek monetary damages on a class-wide basis, because assessing damages requires …
BIRMINGHAM RETIREMENT AND RELIEF SYSTEM, et al., Plaintiffs, v. S.A.C. CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P., et al., Defendants. No. 13 Civ. 2459 (VM) (KNF) ECF CASE. REVISED COURT ORDERED DATE DEADLINES FOR REQUESTS FOR EXCLUSIONS, OBJECTIONS, CLAIM FORM FILING AND HEARING DATE. SUMMARY NOTICE OF (I) PROPOSED SETTLEMENT OF CLASS ACTION AND PLAN OF ALLOCATION; (II) SETTLEMENT …
A panel of state appellate justices could have simply found an insurer wasn’t obligated to pay to cover a $4 million settlement reached to end a lawsuit brought by a suburban engineering firm that claimed it had received so-called “junk fax” advertisements. But the justices used the occasion to also send a message to the lawyers it says are responsible for a “proliferation” of potential junk …
Baron & Budd is investigating a potential class action lawsuit against Volkswagen (VW) and Audi involving alleged timing chain defects that can lead to thousands of dollars in engine damage. A similar case has been
filed in the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey (In Re: Case No. 2:16cv02765).