Struggling Wagga Wagga mother of five Casey Simpson paid Radio Rentals $3320 for a used bed worth $480 and she still doesn’t own it. Ms Simpson, who is leading a $50 million class action launched by Maurice Blackburn lawyers against Radio Rentals on Wednesday, claims its “Rent, Try, $1 Buy” contract misled her. She says instead of letting her buy the used …
Retail giant Radio Rentals has been hit with a class-action lawsuit, which claims thousands of customers using the “Rent, Try, $1 Buy” scheme were ripped off after signing misleading and dodgy contracts. Law firm Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, who filed the lawsuit in Sydney’s Federal Court today, claims Radio Rentals targeted low-income and vulnerable customers, who believed they could “rent-to- …
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 new lawsuit is challenging New York’s ban on private citizens owning stun guns, claiming it violates the …
Many Americans reported hearing a long, heaving sigh yesterday afternoon. While initial reports suggested that the noise might’ve been caused by a great ebbing in The Force, further investigation has shown that it’s more likely the collective sound of relief being uttered by 475,000 VW and Audi owners. That story and more in today’s Volkswagen Dieselgate update:
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As the makers of EpiPen battle a firestorm surrounding price increases, a new federal lawsuit seeking class-action status argues that the company is engaging in price gouging by forcing consumers to buy the pens in packs of two. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of …
The largest auto maker settlement to date may not be enough to buy back the trust of some drivers. On June 28, Volkswagen VOW, +4.15% submitted a settlement plan worth $14.7 billion to a federal judge following the company’s admission in September of cheating emissions tests by placing a “defeat device” in 11 million of its diesel vehicles world-wide. The settlement gives about 475,000 diesel …
Volkswagen owners can finally dump their cheatin’ cars, if they want to. The German automaker has agreed to an unprecedented U.S. settlement to make things right after admitting that it programmed about half a million of its diesel cars to cheat on emissions tests. When driven on the road, the vehicles put out levels of nitrogen oxide well above U.S. pollution standards.
On the heels of a Ticketmaster class action settlement that refunded ticket vouchers to more than 50 million users Saturday, Amazon e-book consumers may have free cash waiting for them as well. Following an antitrust settlement between the Department of Justice and Apple, who was accused of price fixing within its electronic book sales, anyone who purchased an e-book from a major publisher …