The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has overturned a lower court’s ruling, allowing a class action lawsuit brought by employees against DuPont to proceed. The suit, Smiley v. E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Company, examines whether paid lunch and break times can offset time spent putting uniforms on and taking them off that is unpaid and required by the employer as well as …
The fallout continues for Career Point College. A class-action lawsuit has been filed by attorney Aric Garza on behalf of 52 former students for damages exceeding $1 million. According to an email obtained from one of the plaintiffs, Judge Karen Pozza granted a temporary restraining order, prohibiting Career Point from destroying any student information.
A Philadelphia law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against the City of Philadelphia, claiming its police department has issued unauthorized speeding tickets on state highways for more than four years. Philadelphia-based law firm Kang Haggerty & Fetbroyt announced the suit on Wednesday, which was initially filed in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on Oct. 4 and …
Samsung’s Note 7 fallout keeps expanding, as a possible class action lawsuit looms against the company, after three former Note 7 owners in the U.S. joined ranks to take the OEM to court. The news lands only a week after the company pulled the plug on the manufacturing of the handset, a decision determined by mounting numbers of devices that overheat and burst into flames. The lawsuit, which …
A Seoul district court on Thursday ruled against a group of 1,890 consumers who have filed a class-action lawsuit against Hyundai Motor Co. over the alleged exaggeration of the gas mileage of an SUV made by the country’s No. 1 automaker. The Seoul Central District Court said that as the result of the transport ministry’s fuel efficiency test on the Santa Fe 2-liter diesel SUV has not been fully …
A federal class action claims Comcast has bilked cable TV customers out of $1 billion a year since 2014 by charging phony fees for broadcast and sports channels. Plaintiffs from seven states — California, Washington, New Jersey, Illinois, Colorado, Florida and Ohio — sued the cable giant on Monday, alleging consumer fraud, unfair competition, unjust enrichment and breach of …
The complaint alleges that on September 8, 2014 , Seres announced final data from its Phase 1b clinical trial of SER-109, which yielded positive results including clinical cures and a favorable safety profile. Seres proceeded to Phase 2 of the clinical trial to further evaluate the efficacy of SER-109. Meanwhile, the company shed SER-109 in a positive light, stating that it believed SER-109 …
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Wells Fargo shareholders this week filed a class action lawsuit against the bank, its chairman and CEO, CFO and the former head of its community banking division, alleging the Wells Fargo executives “concealed” the fact that the source of the bank’s record so-called “cross-selling” was based on fraudulent activity. “While bragging about the Company’s cross- …
It may yet be that Gov. Nathan Deal and his supporters in the General Assembly won’t get away with the attempted deception of voters concerning the proposed constitutional amendment authorizing the state to take over public schools deemed to be failing. A group of voters has filed a class action lawsuit asserting the ballot language for Amendment 1 is “misleading, subjectively worded and …
Federal regulators might have green-lighted the $44 billion acquisition of Syngenta AG (SYT) by China National Chemical Corp., but Syngenta still has unsettled business to tend to. Notably, its rocky relationship with farmers. According to a recent court filing, a U.S. district court judge in Kansas ruled that the numerous lawsuits brought against Syngenta by U.S. farmers over sales of biotech …