Uber has devised a “clever and sophisticated” scheme in which it manipulates navigation data used to determine “upfront” rider fare prices while secretly short-changing the driver, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit against the ride-hailing app. When a rider uses Uber’s app to hail a ride, the fare the app immediately shows to the passenger is based on a slower and longer route …
BART’s filthy, urine-soaked and feces-ridden elevators that are frequently breaking down are just one of the issues that disabilities rights advocates say are violating passengers’ civil rights. Related Articles “We share in their endeavor to ensure accessible public services, and understand as both users and operators of the system the hardships that can occur within and around …
The complaint alleges that the Company made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Citizens’ brokers and pitchbooks falsely claimed that most of the funds from its insurance policies were directly invested …
A Tale of Two Cases . . .
Critics of the H-1B program have little to celebrate, so far, from President Donald Trump. He promised reforms of the visa program during the campaign, but nothing has happened of consequence — at least until Monday. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a warning to H-1B employers not to use the visa program to discriminate against U.S. workers.
Principal Financial Group Inc. accused the managers of Liongate Capital Management LLP of hiding investments with Bernie Madoff while negotiating to sell half of their London hedge fund to Principal. Founders Randall Dillard and Jeff Holland, and Head of Research Benjamin Funk sold the stake in March 2013 without disclosing secret investments in the largest of several Madoff “feeder funds,” …
Gina Miller, who brought the lawsuit that forced U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May to get parliamentary approval for her Brexit plans, may file another legal challenge — this time over May’s bid to take control over thousands of European Union laws. The investment manager said Thursday that she would …
San Francisco company Modern Appeals Clothing says Ivanka’s company, Ivanka Trump Marks, has an “unfair advantage” due to her White House connections. It calls for restraining orders to prevent the brand from competing unfairly in California. “President Donald J. Trump and his individual and White House employees and agents have, since the election, promoted defendant Ivanka Trump’s brand by …
A consumer recently filed a class action lawsuit against Grubhub for alleged violations of telephone harassment statutes. Victoria Flores filed the lawsuit on March 27 in Cook County Circuit Court alleging the food delivery service sent several unsolicited text messages to her. According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges she, in February 2016, received several automated text …
Heads I win, tails you lose… and then you lose some more. That seems to be the story surrounding Bill Ackman’s disastrous near $4 billion loss in Valeant Pharmaceuticals. Ackman’s pharmaceutical foray is mostly over after his hedge fund Pershing Square dumped all of its Valeant shares in mid-March at $11 apiece, or an over 90% loss, cementing one of Wall Street’s biggest-ever investment …