A janitorial airline contractor at Los Angeles International Airport and more than a dozen of its employees have settled a case alleging their supervisor improperly prohibited them from speaking Spanish during work hours and breaks. Attorneys for lead plaintiff Irma Espinoza and the other Gate Gourmet workers filed a notice of dismissal of the lawsuit last week in Los Angeles Superior Court and …
A Ridgecrest man has filed a class-action lawsuit against EGS Financial Care Inc., a debt collector, and a number of its employees, citing alleged violation of telephone harassment statutes. Laurence Clayton, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, filed a complaint on April 3 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana alleging that the …
A lawsuit recently filed against Princeton University alleged that a student involved in the University’s SHARE program committed two sexual assaults in 2014. The plaintiff’s alleged attacker is currently a student member of Princeton’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE), however it not clear when he became a member, according to the lawsuit. This student’s …
Retail giant Nike has been hit with a wage and hour lawsuit based out of California that alleges numerous violations to California wage and hour law, as well as other employment tenets. The most compelling aspect of the lawsuit is the alleged requirement by defendant Nike Retail Services Inc. that store employees, alleged to be …
This article was co-authored by Allyson B. Baker and Joseph Leonard Robbins. It originally appeared on Venable.com and is republished here with permission. In a putative nationwide consumer class action against an online marketplace lender and its bank partner, Bethune v. LendingClub Corp., et al., a federal judge in the Southern District of New York recently granted defendants’ motion to …
A Chicago woman who claims Amazon continued to draw payments from her bank account for an Amazon Prime membership she says she didn’t even purchase has filed a class action suit against the online retailer. On Feb. 20, plaintiff Latoya Christmas filed a complaint in Chicago federal court against Seattle-based Amazon, alleging the retailer violated the federal Electronic Funds Transfer Act and …
Microsoft has settled a class-action lawsuit regarding sales at its Microsoft Store outlets. And if you made a purchase at one of those stores, you might be owed as much as $100. The lawsuit alleged that Microsoft Store receipts contained too much information.
A federal racketeering lawsuit brought by a cooperative of tobacco farmers against two Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) informants, Jason Carpenter and Christopher Small, is headed for trial in the Eastern District of North Carolina Western Division. The complaint alleges that Carpenter and Small swindled the plaintiffs, US Tobacco Cooperative Inc, a co-op made of about …
A Muslim woman has filed a lawsuit in a court at New York alleging that police officers forced her to remove her hijab and snapped photos of her after ‘false arrest’. Rabab Musa, 34, alleged in the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit that she was “unlawfully arrested” last September as she left a Starbucks in Midtown. …
A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed most of an investor lawsuit accusing several major banks of conspiring to manipulate the benchmark European Interbank Offered Rate, or Euribor, and related derivatives. In a 100-page decision, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan said several claims in the proposed class action must fail because of a lack of evidence …