LearningRx, a Colorado Springs company that operates a franchised network of 80 tutoring centers in 25 states, is just beginning to recover after a 1½-year battle with the Federal Trade Commission over whether it could back up its advertising claims with scientific studies and other research. The company settled in May a lawsuit filed in federal court last year by the agency that alleged it …
Volkswagen AG, in another step to move past its costly diesel emissions cheating scandal, has agreed to pay $175 million to US lawyers suing the German automaker on behalf of the owners of 475,000 polluting vehicles, two people briefed on the agreement said on …
A Cook County lawsuit alleges a Countryside car dealership failed to inform a customer, who later died in his car, that his vehicle was leaking carbon monoxide when he brought it in for repairs. An administrator of the deceased man’s estate filed a wrongful death claim against Fishacar Ltd. , which operates as Autobarn Volkswagen of Countryside, the Cook County Recorder reported Friday. The …
The ACLU of Michigan says it will announce a new class action lawsuit on Tuesday, Oct. 18. It’s being filed on behalf of Flint families impacted by the city’s lead-tainted water. The ACLU released this statement: “All children can learn-but the ongoing water crisis in Flint creates urgent problems for Flint students, parents and teachers,” said Kary Moss, executive …
Lots of people were snarking on Kim Kardashian after the celebrity was bound, gagged, and robbed at gunpoint in Paris , but gossip site MediaTakeOut went one step further by implying Kardashian faked the attack. The site posted three separate stories with slightly different spins on the theory, all of which have been taken off the site. Kardashian filed a …
Goldman Sachs on Friday won a lawsuit filed against it by the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), a government-managed sovereign wealth fund. The Libyan fund had sued the American investment bank for $1.2bn (£984m) over losses that it had incurred from derivatives purchased in 2008. The LIA had alleged that Goldman Sachs had wooed the fund’s officials with prostitutes, fine-dining in London’s …
The IT employees laid off by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, who alleged a “conspiracy to displace U.S. workers” in a lawsuit, lost a key ruling Thursday and face dismissal of the complaint. But this is a two-part legal fight, and a new lawsuit alleging national origin discrimination may be filed in the next month. The first lawsuit followed a decision by Disney to outsource some of its IT …
CEO John Stumpf’s resignation, announced Wednesday , doesn’t come close to ending the troubles at Wells Fargo. The bank is still the subject of criminal probes and boycotts.
On Wednesday, The New York Times published an article featuring two women accusing Donald Trump of touching them inappropriately years ago. Trump has denied the allegations and threatened to sue the paper for libel. Trump’s lawyer demanded the Times retract the story and issue an apology.
The winner of a $9 million state lottery jackpot can continue a lawsuit that contends he would have won millions more if the prior drawing had not been rigged by a rogue insider, an Iowa judge has ruled. District Court Judge Karen Romano rejected requests Wednesday to dismiss the case, which is the first filed against the Multi-State Lottery Association over a major jackpot-rigging scandal …