A Northern District of California judge refused to preliminarily approve a class settlement of Uber customers who used its “Rideshare Services” in which Uber would have paid class members $28.5 million. The court was concerned about several things. First, the settlement divided the settlement fund among class members on a per capita basis, which resulted in the compensation of some members who …
The class action complaint, filed with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division, accuses Welspun of violating Missouri’s consumer fraud statutes and other laws, through deception, fraud, false pretence, false promise, misrepresentation, unfair practice or concealment, suppression, breach of warranty and/or omission of material fact, among other things …
THE FASHION LAW EXCLUSIVE – Zara has been hit with a massive lawsuit alleging that it is engaged in the widespread practice of deceiving American consumers through a classic bait and switch scheme in connection with its pricing. The $5 million-plus proposed class action lawsuit, which was filed by Devin Rose in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, a federal …
Anyone who has purchased an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 may be entitled to a $30 payout for every car they purchased now that the NVIDIA class-action lawsuit over the GTX 970 memory has now been settled. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang apologised to buyers about the issue and promised that it would never happen again. Read below to see if you are entitled to a payout from the settlement.
The bill for a lawsuit over raises for county officials continues to grow. As of July 28, Onondaga County had paid $154,340.82 to outside lawyers to defend a lawsuit from another elected official. In January, County Comptroller Bob Antonacci sued 19 county officials over the raises approved last year.
Nvidia has been fighting off a variety of class action suits related to the way the GTX 970 was advertised when it was released in 2014. It appears those cases are coming to a close after the graphics card maker agreed to a preliminary settlement in the consolidated cases. Under the agreed terms, Nvidia will pay all members of the class who purchased GTX 970 cards $30, and will also cover about …
Shutterfly has settled a class action suit alleging the online photo sharing site violated Illinois privacy laws by creating a system permitting photos to be stored and searched using facial recognition technology. The amount of the settlement has not been disclosed. The plaintiff, Brian Norberg, had filed suit claiming the Redwood City, Calif.-based Shutterfly and its Palo Alto, …
Uber drivers may be settling for about 12% of the total amount they could have received at trial. Uber Technologies Inc. reached a $100 million settlement agreement in April for two class-action lawsuits brought by drivers who argued that they should be employees and were owed reimbursement. But, according to documents released this week, if drivers in both cases had won on trials on a class- …
A golfer has filed a class-action lawsuit against golf pro Michael Hebron and the town of Smithtown over allegations that Hebron overcharged fees for players to use the town golf course and to rent carts. Robert Dwyer of Smithtown filed the lawsuit on April 14 on behalf of “at minimum hundreds” of unnamed golfers who have used the town facilities at Smithtown Landing Golf and Country Club,…