Two years ago, the president of Credit Management Services, a collection agency in Grand Island, Nebraska, presented a struggling local family with the keys to a used 2007 Mercury Grand Marquis. To commemorate the donation, the company held a ceremony that concluded outside its offices, where the couple and their two young girls could try out their new car. But CMS played …
45,000 Workers Win Class Action Rights Workers Independent News is heard Monday through Friday at 8:45 and 11:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. At least 45,000 workers have won class-action lawsuit rights in a National Labor Relations Board case against Menard’s. The midwest-based home improvement supply store chain owned by Wisconsin anti-union billionaire John Menard is settling the case with the NLRB …
A federal judge in Seattle has rejected the Obama administration’s effort to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that could force the government to provide attorneys to thousands of children who face deportation in U.S. immigration courts. U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly has set the outline of the class of child immigrants who will be represented in the lawsuit, and told the coalition of …
Uber says it will not install a tipping function – because the company believes tipping is unfair due to customers’ unconscious racial biases. The company pointed to a 2008 Cornell University study that indicated ‘consumers of both races discriminate against black service providers by tipping them less than white service providers,’ the Boston Globe reported. According to an Uber spokesperson …
In the wake of a reversal in a Cuban policy that prevented those born in Cuba from taking cruises to the island, a class-action lawsuit against Carnival Cruises and its Fathom line was pulled Thursday. A notice of voluntary dismissal was filed in U.S. District Court in Miami on behalf of Francisco Marty and Amparo Sanchez, who previously had been refused bookings on Fathom’s maiden voyage from …
The New York primary election fiasco appears like it is not going to abate anytime soon. As reported earlier by the Inquisitr, more than three million Independent voters — amounting to 27 percent of the electorate — were not allowed to cast their ballots in the New York primary held on April 19. The state’s closed primary system requires Independent voters to change their party affiliations six …
Jessica Alba turned 35 today, but she got a not-so-welcome early birthday present yesterday. The Organic Consumers Association filed a lawsuit against her business The Honest Company, claiming it falsely labels its Premium Infant Formula as “organic.” …
A federal judge has granted preliminary approval for a lawsuit accusing Merck & Co Inc(MRK.N) of underpaying female sales representatives to go forward as a collective action. The lawsuit is seeking at least $250 million in damages. U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp in Trenton, New Jersey, on Wednesday granted conditional certification to a proposed class of current and former representatives …
Chesapeake lawyers state a class action lawsuit filed in Stephens County is a waste of judicial resources and should join similar petitions filed in federal court. McAfee & Taft attorneys representing Chesapeake Energy corporation filed documents at the Stephens County Courthouse April 22 for a stay of a class action lawsuit brought against the oil titan seeking restitution for oil lease …
The Modesto Irrigation District faces two separate class-action lawsuits, both accusing the utility of overcharging electricity customers to subsidize farmers’ water prices. Both ask that a judge grant class status enabling tens of thousands of electricity customers to join the lawsuit and ask for refunds. Although filed for similar reasons within two weeks of each other, the lawsuits were …