Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced Seattle-based Julep Beauty, Inc. and its owner Jane Park, will pay $3 million for using deceptive “negative option” marketing tactics to lure consumers into signing up for recurring boxes of Julep products, and then making it very difficult to cancel their …
Jersey City has agreed to pay a city resident $14,500 to settle a police brutality lawsuit the man filed two years ago, court records show. In a federal lawsuit initially filed Sept. 3, 2014, Tevin Henry accused more than a dozen police officers of assaulting him after they ordered him to stop while he was riding a bicycle on Winfield Avenue at 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 1, 2012. Henry said in his …
SFI of Tennessee, LLC, a fabricator and supplier of heavy-gauge steel and value-added products, has agreed to pay $210,000 and provide other relief to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. EEOC …
GM settled the final two of six bellwether cases designed to set the pattern for future settlements related to the maker’s faulty ignition switches. General Motors Co. agreed to settlements in the final two ignition-switch cases slated for trial in a New York federal court this year. Terms of the settlements were not disclosed.
A class-action settlement case has been set up by Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP for owners of optical disc drives manufactured by four electronics companies in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Through litigation, Hagans Berman is in the process of securing settlement payments of $124.5 million from manufacturers Panasonic Corp., Panasonic Corp. …
Four more auto-parts suppliers agreed this week to pay $30 million in consumer settlements — with one paying an additional $5.9 million to U.S. dealerships — as part of class-action lawsuits that sprung from a massive U.S. antitrust price-fixing probe. Aisin Seiki Co., which ranks No. 7 on Automotive News’ list of the top global suppliers of parts to automakers, agreed to pay $24.5 million in …
A proposed settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit involving Arthroscopic & Laser Surgery of San Diego and HealthSouth Corporation. The proposed settlement provides compensation to certain …
The National Milk Producers Federation class action lawsuit has reached a settlement agreement. The antitrust lawsuit was filed by Matthew Edwards et al. against defendants NMPF, also known as Cooperatives Working Together, Dairy Farmers of America, Land O’ Lakes, Dairylea Cooperative, and …
Subaru agreed to put a new engine in some vehicles that customers said had oil- burning issues, according to the terms of a class-action lawsuit settlement approved this week. The class-action suit said the Cherry Hill-based automaker was “unresponsive” to customer complaints and set “an unreasonably high threshold” to test oil consumption. It’s not known how many of the 650,000 Crosstrek, …
The Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles will pay $40,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by an undocumented immigrant from Jordan following his illegal detainment two years ago. The Burlington Free Press reports (http://bfpne.ws/2bHrarr ) the payout settles a Vermont Human Rights Commission complaint filed by Abdel Razaq Rababah. Rababah went to a DMV location …