Open up your wallets—Sony might have as much as $55 for you. PlayStation 3 owners who lost the ability to run Linux on their consoles following a 2010 firmware update should soon be getting a …
Among continued struggles with algae in the Chesapeake Bay, regulators are cracking down on nutrient contributors. State Attorney General Brian Frosh and Maryland Secretary of the Environment Ben Grumbles announced late last month that the owners of two Maryland power plants in the Washington suburbs would have to pay $1 million to settle a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit, according to The …
UCLA settled a lawsuit Thursday that was filed by two graduate students who claimed they were sexually harassed by professor Gabriel Piterberg. According to a UCLA statement, the UC Board of Regents agreed to pay one student $350,000 and the other student $110,000. They will also provide one of the students with a dissertation year fellowship in her final year of graduate school.
A much-anticipated TCPA class action trial was set to begin next week in Birchmeier et al. v. Caribbean Cruise Line Inc., et al., in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. According to published reports, however, a class-wide settlement was reached yesterday in this protracted litigation with a history of controversial rulings by the …
US residents who purchased an Nvidia GTX 970 between 1 September 2014 and 24 August 2016 can now put in a claim for $30 USD (per card) at a newly launched class action litigation site. This pertains to the amalgamated class action suits brought against Nvidia for misleading advertising, widely reported on back in July. The cases claimed GTX 970 cards we sold to customers “based on inaccurate or …
Maricopa County elections officials satisfied concerns from Democrats that there will be enough polling locations for the Nov. 8 election, leading to a settlement on one part of a federal lawsuit stemming from March’s presidential preference election. The settlement was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix. Arizona minority voters, along with state and national Democratic Party …
A federal appeals court on Thursday cast doubt on the legitimacy of a settlement resolving claims that Subway tricked customers by selling “Footlong” subs that were less than a foot long. A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago heard arguments on a challenge by prominent class-action critic Ted Frank, who said the settlement gave too much money to lawyers and no …
“Cooperatives Working Together actually had information about its so-called ‘dairy herd retirement,’ program on its own website, along with economic analysis … showing how much the industry profited from the program,” Leahy said. “We took that information and analyzed the applicable law.” At least some of that data is still online. A 2009 analysis by Scott Brown of the University of Missouri- …
Subaru has settled a class action complaint that alleged 2006 and some 2007 Subaru B9 Tribeca vehicles have a hood latch defect, which allows the hood to open while the car is being driven. Subaru owner Marion Hadley alleged the hood can “fly open unexpectedly while traveling at highway speeds, cracking the windshield, causing substantial …
The strife of thousands of Arab Americans being discriminated against by government entities since 9/11, as well as by some Trump-inspired individuals, is nothing new to the immigrant community. Recently, cases of banks abruptly closing the accounts of their Arab Americans customers without explanation have begun to surface in district courts. Financial institutions like Chase, Bank …