Reader CDW passes along another challenge to Uber’s assertion that its drivers are just contractors. A federal judge in eastern Pennsylvania is hearing a case where Uber drivers are claiming that they should be on the clock when they are logged into the Uber app, waiting for a ride. In addition, they are claiming this should entitle them to minimum wage and overtime pay .
In 2016, class-action lawsuits alleging that a processed food product or its labeling violated state consumer-protection laws continued to clog the federal courts, especially in California. The number of new food-related consumer class actions filed last year nearly equaled the number filed in 2015, according to a report in Food Navigator USA . It’s unclear whether these trends will hold in 2017, but there is one set of blatantly frivolous claims that should disappear this year: those that seek judicial regulation of products that contain partially hydrogenated oil (PHO), the main source of trans fat. A December 13, 2016 Southern District of California decision should …
Volkswagen may see its recovery costs from the diesel car emissions scandal climb higher from a potential class-action lawsuit filed in Germany. German lawyers for U.S. law firm Hausfeld have filed the suit for one car owner that’s been designed to follow what’s worked in U.S. courtrooms, according to Jan-Eike Andresen of legal-tech website My-Right.de. The legal portal is supporting these …
NEW JERSEY (CBS) — Two newborns died last summer after a MRSA outbreak in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Cooper Hospital sickened 8 infants. But only now is the incident coming to light, and it’s because of a lawsuit. A nurse employed by Cooper for one month filed suit in Middlesex County last month.
Flip or Flop ’s Tarek El Moussa and Christina El Moussa aren’t the only house-flipping reality TV stars making headlines. In Touch has learned another wealthy TV real estate personality with a similar business model — former A&E Flip This House star Armando Montelongo — is being sued in Texas by nearly 200 plaintiffs who allege his company’s $1,500 seminars were simply ruses to sell more …
President-elect Donald Trump has no plans to settle his lawsuit against a celebrity chef who pulled out of opening a restaurant in one of Trump’s hotels, a lawyer for the Trump Organization told a judge on Tuesday. Trump is suing restaurateur Geoffrey Zakarian, who canceled a deal for a restaurant in Trump’s hotel in downtown Washington after Trump made disparaging comments about Mexicans and …
Hundreds of thousands of lottery players who were allegedly cheated by an insider’s long-running scheme to rig jackpots should be reimbursed for their losing tickets, according a lawsuit filed Wednesday that seeks class action certification. Lawyers filed the consumer fraud case against the Multi-State Lottery Association, the Iowa-based nonprofit that helps administer games …
A motion will be heard Dec. 21, 2016 in the ongoing class-action bingo lawsuit. Getty Images A motion will be heard Wednesday in the ongoing class-action bingo lawsuit between the City of Windsor and the ALS Society. The motion to be heard before Superior Court Judge Terrence Patterson regarding whether or not a protective order keeping secret the identities of those groups that opted out of …
A Des Plaines man has filed a lawsuit against a local McDonald’s franchisee, alleging the restaurant operator engaged in deceptive business practices because “Extra Value Meals” cost more than the items ordered separately. James Gertie claims that Karis Management Co., of Des Plaines, which operates about 10 locations in the area, charges $5.49 for two cheeseburgers, medium fries …
Typically when you see a lawsuit over a faulty product in the automotive industry it’s a simple manufacturing defect, lack of testing, or some other shortcoming that seems obvious in hindsight. A new Toyota lawsuit over bad wiring is none of those things, and it’s hard to imagine anyone being able to predict such a thing would ever happen. You see, Toyota’s been using some fancy new wires that …