A Los Angeles County woman says Sprint defrauded her and at least 99 other California consumers with false promises of lower rates and three prepaid Visa cards, each worth $350. “Such representations was part of a common scheme to mislead consumers and incentivize them to purchase telephone services in spite of the inhibition brought about by the difficulty of installing them,” Sylvia Nixon …
While jury duty is a civic responsibility, it can sometimes be an expensive inconvenience: A new lawsuit says jurors in D.C.’s Superior Court face exorbitant fees charged by a bank that deprives them of the maximum payment of $34 per day. Attorneys for William Mark Scott, a lawyer himself, have filed a class action suit against JPMorgan Chase & Co. in D.C. federal court for unjust …
Bank of America is facing a lawsuit in Arizona from prisoners who contend they are being forced to become customers of the bank because they are given a BoA debit card that also has high and unusual fees. According to a federal class-action lawsuit, covered by Courthouse News Service , prisoners have to pay $15 each time they withdraw money from a teller. Daria Brill, the lead plaintiff in the …
Oregon credit union sues Noodles & Company over breach The credit union argued that Noodles & Company failed to implement or maintain adequate data security measures. Oregon credit union SELCO Community Credit Union accused Noodles & Company of failing to implement or maintain adequate data security measures for customer information despite highly publicized breaches at large national retailers …
Wendy’s faces a class-action suit over a breach that occurred last year and resulted in hundreds of thousands of fraudulent credit card transactions. Pennsylvania-based First Choice Credit Union filed a class action lawsuit against Wendy’s over a data breach the retailer experienced last year. The suit alleged that …
Hackers broke into Wendy’s computer systems and stole data from potentially millions of cards used at its restaurants between 22 October 2015 and 10 March 2016. Now, according to the Courthouse News Service, Pittsburgh-based First Choice Federal Credit Union has filed a suit on behalf of banks with affected customers claiming that the burger chain “refused to take steps to adequately protect …
Orlando-based KEL law firm routinely allowed its clients to pay bankruptcy legal fees using credit cards, a violation of bankruptcy law, according to a new lawsuit filed against the firm. Credit card purchases are basically new debts, and new debts are prohibited in the days before filing a bankruptcy, and during the bankruptcy process. That’s because bankruptcy courts often erase any credit…
Donald Trump’s Web site, which asks “Are You My Next Apprentice?” offers students the chance to learn how to succeed in business. Donld Trump charges would-be moguls up to $35,000 to “learn from the master” at his online Trump U.