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At&T’s Mexico Unit Loses Class Action Lawsuit to Consumer Watchdog

FILE PHOTO: The AT&T logo is pictured during the Forbes Forum 2017 in Mexico City, Mexico, September 18, 2017. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido/File PhotoMEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s consumer watchdog, Profeco, said on Friday it won a class-action lawsuit against the local unit of U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T Inc for undue charges and poor service. The sentence is final after Mexico’s Supreme …


Refunds for 300 Million Phone Users Sought in Lawsuits Over Location-Data Sales

The proposed classes would include all of the four carriers’ customers in the US between 2015 and 2019. Securus’ service relied on data from LocationSmart, a data aggregator that received location information from the carriers. We only share location data with customer consent. We stopped sharing location data with aggregators after reports of misuse.” T-Mobile declined to comment on the …


Mountaire to Appeal Intervention to U.S. Appeals Court

Mountaire is appealing an order from Judge Maryellen Noreika to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Action on the consent decree has been stayed by Delaware Superior Court Judge Richard Stokes until the federal court proceedings are resolved. In an April 12 court filing, Mountaire said it will begin the improvements despite not knowing how the legal process will play out. DNREC …


Lawsuit Filed Over Deadly Southwest Airlines Flight

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque couple has joined at least eight other passengers in filing a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines over a deadly flight. The Santa Fe New Mexican identifies the couple as Kevin and Andrea Nelson. The suit is in response to the April 2018 flight when a failed engine shattered a plane’s window mid-flight, killing Albuquerque resident Jennifer Riordan. The …


Black Mississippi Valedictorian’s Discrimination Suit Going to Trial. Here’s Why She Sued.

“I didn’t know — I don’t know Heather Bouse, didn’t know then whether Heather Bouse was black, white or what. During a deposition, Shepard says she believes the federal judge’s order to desegregate the Cleveland school district influenced the district’s choice of valedictorians. “…They were mostly concerned with white flight and not that of the black students or black community. Now East Side …


Who’s Behind the Clay County Pharmacies in the Federal Opioid Lawsuit?

In a federal lawsuit outlining explosive allegations against two Clay County pharmacies making its way through the court system, four individuals are named as defendants in the case, including the pharmacies’ majority owner and three pharmacists who allegedly filled scores of suspect prescriptions. Dale Hollow Pharmacy and Xpress Pharmacy, located three doors from each other in the 1,500-person town of Celina, Tennessee, have been investigated on multiple occasions in the past by the Drug Enforcement Administration leading up to the lawsuit’s filing in February.


Stranger Things Lawsuit Dropped Just Days Before Going to Trial

The 2018 lawsuit that alleged that Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer stole the idea from someone they worked with in the past has been dropped. Director Charlie Kessler, who alleged that the brothers stole his idea for what they later made into Stranger Things, dropped the lawsuit just 48 hours before the trial was scheduled to start on Tuesday. The Duffer brothers always maintained …


New Allegations of Sexual Assault Made in Ongoing Lawsuit Against Dartmouth

Two former Dartmouth students have signed on as plaintiffs to an ongoing lawsuit that alleges that for over 16 years College officials ignored evidence of sexual misconduct by three former psychological and brain sciences professors. In an amended version of the original plaintiffs’ complaint filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire, the two former students bring forward additional allegations of sexual assault and harassment, adding to an already significant and graphic list of charges made by seven other women who allege that the three PBS professors turned the department into a “21st century Animal House.” 


HBO Tells Michael Jackson Estate to Beat It in $100M ‘Leaving Neverland’ Lawsuit

The controversial Leaving Neverland made its debut on March 3, but the estate of Michael Jackson and HBO are still fighting over the sex abuse documentary in a $100 million lawsuit. And, put it this way, they didn’t come to dance with the once proclaimed King of Pop’s crew. The matter went over to federal court in early March for jurisdictional reasons just over a week after Leaving Neverland …


Canadian Class Action Claimants Get $20 Million After Obituary Website Uses Unauthorized Notices and Images

Thomson wrote an obituary for her father and gave permission to a funeral home and the Green’s Harbour Community Channel to publish it, along with a photograph she’d taken. The decision acts as a deterrentShe later discovered that Afterlife was displaying her father’s obituary and photograph on its website alongside options to buy flowers and virtual candles — all without her permission. …