It’s easy to jump to the conclusion that the bankruptcy filing of Yellow Cab of San Francisco — located in the hometown of both Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. — is due to the fierce competition from the heavily financed ride-hailing app companies. But the reality is a bit more nuanced. Ultimately, the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of Yellow Cab of San Francisco on Friday is actually a …
Disney just got hit with two class-action suits. Leo Perrero and Dena Moore say they were illegally replaced by foreign workers. Both were laid off from their IT jobs at Walt Disney World in Orlando in January 2015.
Lee-Anne Walters from Flint holds a glass of filtered water at the Webber residence on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016 in Flint, MI. Walters was unable to drink the water in fear that, though filtered, it contained lead and was unsafe for drinking.The Wall Street Journal Michigan’s attorney general has tapped a Detroit-area trial lawyer and a former head of the FBI’s Detroit field office to lead a …
Melissa Ferrick’s 150 songs have played about a million times on Spotify. But the 45-year-old independent artist says the popular streaming music service has shortchanged her by failing to fully license her songs. The man bolstering Ferrick’s claims, laid out in a $200 million lawsuit, is music-technology entrepreneur Jeff Price.
A Saskatchewan law firm is representing more than a thousand victims of the so-called ’60s Scoop’ who are seeking compensation from the federal government. The Merchant Law Group served the Federal Government the class-action lawsuit on January 30. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the government ran an Adopt Indian Métis program.
A member of the Chamber of Commerce Professionals Group on Facebook asked:
This year in particular, we have a lot of members that are significantly past due. Has anyone used “late fees”? Did it work?
syndication.ap.orgKim Pindak stands outside Chicago’s federal courthouse after the first day of testimony in a civil lawsuit involving him and and other panhandlers Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, in Chicago. A federal civil trial pitting two panhandlers against one of the nation’s largest sheriff’s departments got underway Monday, in a case stemming from a lawsuit that alleges the men were improperly …
FLINT, Mich. (WXYZ) – New class action lawsuits have been filed in connection to the Flint water crisis. The lawsuits follow the discovery of high levels of lead contamination in the water supply from the Flint River. The suits were filed against Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, Former Flint Emergency Managers Darnell Earley and Jerry Ambrose, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, …
* Author: Davey Alba.Davey Alba Business * Date of Publication: 01.26.16.01.26.16 * Time of Publication: 5:09 pm.5:09 pm Paris Cabbies and Uber Are Clashing—Again French taxi unions and Uber are clashing again. Taxi drivers in France have once more gone on strike—shutting down roads, demonstrating across Paris, and blocking access to major airports and railway stations, according to French …
The Supreme Court ruled on a company’s effort to end a class action lawsuit with a payoff to one plaintiff. (Photo: USA TODAY) 572 CONNECTTWEET99 LINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court dealt a rare setback Wednesday to companies trying to avoid potentially expensive class-action lawsuits. The justices ruled that offers of full compensation to the lead plaintiff in such a case …