APTN InFocus with Cheryl McKenzie Indigenous women from different parts of the country are stepping forward with their experiences in taxicabs saying they’re being harassed, including unwanted sexual advances. In this edition, we hear why some feel the reason they’re being mistreated is because they’re Indigenous women. Now, in response to the stories going public on a national level, at least …
Donald Trump’s model wife on her path to citzenship Donald Trump’s modeling agency has profited from the very same visa program that the presidential candidate himself has slammed — and appears to have violated federal law in the process, a CNNMoney investigation has found. Throughout his campaign, Trump has loudly opposed the practice of U.S. companies using foreign workers instead of …
BERLIN Almost 300 institutional investors in Volkswagen have filed a multi-billion euro suit against the carmaker for what they see as breaches of its capital markets duty in the emissions scandal, the law firm representing them said. The lawsuit, for damages of 3.256 billion euro ($3.61 billion), was filed at a regional court in Braunschweig in VW’s home state of Lower Saxony on Monday and is …
A small supermarket chain in Florida says that it has been ready for the shift to chip-based cards—but it can’t get certified. A Florida-based supermarket and liquor store chain has sued a variety of card networks and card issuers (PDF)—including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Wells Fargo, and a number of others—over a recent shift in credit card technology that took place in the US last …
Customers who sued AT&T over its practice of throttling unlimited data plans will not be able to pursue a class-action lawsuit against the company. AT&T argued that the customers could only have their complaints heard individually in arbitration, and Judge Edward Chen of US District Court in Northern California has sided with the cellular company. The customers’ contracts with AT&T required …
Negotiations on an out-of-court settlement for residential school survivors in Newfoundland and Labrador have come to a halt, CBC News has learned. Meetings between lawyers in Toronto during February ended without a deal and no further talks are scheduled. In an email, a lawyer for the former students told CBC, “This is not complicated and Canada must simply move more quickly.
More than 1,000 former Newfoundland and Labrador residential school students say the federal government must recognize the abuse they suffered. Survivors from this province said they were unjustly excluded from a multi-billion-dollar settlement with other Canadian residential school survivors. The group of survivors from this province launched a class-action lawsuit and, after years of delays, …
Hair today, gone tomorrow. More than 200 women in 40 states have joined a class-action lawsuit against the makers of the hair care line WEN, claiming that the products can cause severe hair damage — including bald spots and rashes, according to a report. The class-action lawsuit against celebrity hairstylist Chaz Dean and direct marketing company Guthy-Renker, which markets the product, was …
Christopher Elliott | March 12, 2016
Kelli Schultz wants our help, but she also wants everyone to know what Carnival has done to her. I can’t help with the first one, but I can definitely do something about the second. What happened to her?
A California judge decided that the class-action lawsuit filed against AT&T for throttling unlimited data will not be allowed to proceed. According to AT&T, customers should only have their complaints heard on an individual basis through arbitration, and it seems as though Judge Edward Chen from the U.S. District Court in Northern California agrees with the company. Many customers, however, …