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Settlement Approved: Wells Fargo Customers Will Get $50 Million for Overcharged Mortgage Fees

Borrowers who had a mortgage serviced by Wells Fargo between May 6, 2005 and July 1, 2010 will soon receive their share of a $50 million settlement stemming from allegations that Wells Fargo overcharged borrowers for Broker Price Opinions during that period. The settlement, which was initially announced in October, stems from a class action lawsuit against Wells Fargo that claimed that the bank …


Gina Miller May Consider New Lawsuit Over Great Repeal Bill

Gina Miller, who brought the lawsuit that forced U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May to get parliamentary approval for her Brexit plans, may file another legal challenge — this time over May’s bid to take control over thousands of European Union laws. The investment manager said Thursday that she would …


Scranton Landlords Joining Class-Action Lawsuit Against Rental-Registration Fees

More than 100 Scranton landlords recently joined a pending class-action lawsuit that challenges the city’s rental registration fees as arbitrary and excessive, and seeks refunds. The city’s revision of rental registration rules in 2014, imposing fees of $150 per building, $50 per unit and inspections, spurred a lawsuit in 2015 in Lackawanna County Court from landlord Adam Guiffrida. His lawsuit …



An Ingenious European Lawsuit Could Finally Provide a Realistic Way to Stop Brexit

Jolyon Maugham doesn’t mind a tough fight. He was rejected from one of his first jobs after university for being a man, instead of a woman named Joleen that the employers thought the temp agency was sending. He filed a sex discrimination case and won. And now Maugham seems to be taking on the majority of Britons who voted to leave the European Union (EU). Along with some politicians, he has filed a case that could allow the UK parliament to reverse Brexit if they so wish. He now regularly gets online hate messages from what he calls “a small group of angry and loud individuals”—but that’s not going to stop him from the pursuit. …


The Hairdresser Taking on Brexit

The case could pit the power of the judiciary against the authority of the prime minister. In the hall of London’s Inner Temple, a grand dining chamber with stained-glass windows and coats of arms adorning the walls, 300 lawyers assembled to …