Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP are facing a potential class action lawsuit brought earlier this month by four former employees. The companies engaged in widespread age discrimination during a restructuring of the legacy computer and printer manufacturer, according to their complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. HP from 2012 to 2015 made a series of discriminatory …
This month Penn joined a familiar list of peer universities — including Duke, Harvard and Yale — in a lawsuit over employee retirement plans. The class action lawsuit claims that University retirement plans have been charging fees that are too high for school employees. All of the schools involved are being accused on the grounds that they all use several providers, as opposed to one, to manage …
Otto, a self-driving trucking startup built by ex-Googlers, darted into the spotlight earlier this month when Uber acquired it for a reported $680 million. So did Clearpath Robotics, a Canadian maker of autonomous robots that includes a division of self-driving warehouse robots named—you guessed it—Otto. Clearpath is now suing Uber’s Otto, the full name of which is Ottomotto, for infringing on …
In 2013, Yahoo announced that it would begin scanning its users’ e-mail for targeted advertising purposes—just as Google does. As is par for the course, class-action lawsuits were filed. The Silicon Valley media giant, according to one of the lawsuits, was violating the “personal liberties” of non-Yahoo Mail users.
He said Miss Swift would be happy to serve in any other type of case. The pop star was sued last year by a former Coloradan radio DJ who claims that he lost his job because of allegations the singer made about him grabbing her backside during a 2013 photo shoot. In June 2013, David Mueller, who is known on the radio as “Jackson”, went to a meet-and-greet with Taylor Swift, and brought along his …
What started as “workplace morale” problems for Chipotle has snowballed into a huge class-action lawsuit over unpaid wages. A daunting number of employees — 9,961, or roughly 1 in 5 — have joined the complaint, which claims the chain “routinely requires hourly-paid restaurant employees to punch out, and then continue working until they are given permission to leave.” Managers allege they also …
The Independent’s ongoing public records lawsuit against Lafayette City Marshal Brian Pope is back in court this week, with the publication seeking more records they assert may link the marshal to political activity during the sheriff’s election. Pope faces five felony counts of perjury and misuse of public funds after records unearthed through the lawsuit revealed he used his public office to …
A lawyer representing Melania Trump, the wife of Republican nominee Donald Trump, said Monday that a recent Daily Mail report included “false and defamatory statements” that she worked for an escort service two decades ago. The Daily Mail, a British newspaper with a massive global online presence, published an article Friday examining whether Melania Trump began working a model in the United …
Oculus VR Respond to Zenimax Lawsuit Amendment Oculus VR make short work of responding to Zenimax Media’s claims in a direct statement to VRFocus. Earlier this evening VRFocus reported on an update to the ongoing lawsuit between Zenimax Media and Oculus VR, in which Zenimax now claim that the technology for the Oculus Rift software development kit (SDK) was in fact developed by their research …
A year after filing a lawsuit against her former business manager, Shannen Doherty can claim a small victory. On Monday, TMZ revealed both parties were finally able to reach a settlement in the $15 million legal battle, where the actress claimed her ex management firm was negligent with her health …