Want free concert tickets? Ticketmaster has announced plans to expand a free ticket giveaway related to a settled lawsuit. Eligible customers who act fast can get tickets for a selection of nearly 700 events in the U.S. and Canada, including The Cure, Sublime, Bob Dylan, and Gwen Stefani.
More than 168 professional golf caddies have filed an appeal seeking to overturn a ruling in February that dismissed a $50 million lawsuit against the PGA tour. The caddies alleged the PGA compelled them to wear corporate-sponsored logos on bibs without compensation. The filing claims that the PGA Tour officials threatened to prohibit caddies from participating in events if they didn’t wear the …
Fitbit is currently embroiled in a class-action lawsuit over the accuracy of its heart-rate tracking. As part of their case, the plaintiffs commissioned a scientific study of the accuracy of the Fitbit Charge HR and Surge. Wareable spoke to the scientist who was paid to do the testing, and unsurprisingly, he has bad things to say about Fitbit’s devices.
The federal agency responsible for taking consumer complaints about vehicle defects has recorded roughly 90 complaints about 2010 and 2011 Subaru Outbacks whose exterior lights allegedly fail frequently and prematurely. In a November complaint, a driver claims his or her 2011 Outback needed headlamp bulbs changed every six weeks. In a more recent complaint, a …
A former Valve translator has filed a $3.1 million lawsuit against the company, alleging that she faced discrimination, a hostile work environment, misclassification as an employee, and ultimately, wrongful termination. The suit, available in full on Scribd, claims that the employee’s primary responsibility was translating content into Spanish, although she also served as a liaison with law …
A class-action lawsuit against Facebook with major ramifications for privacy in Internet communications moved one step closer to trial, Courthouse News Service reports. The case, which claims Facebook illegally mines private messages for advertising, would be the first to claim users have property rights in their Facebook messages. Chief U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton partially certified …
Oregon’s former prisons watchdog has filed a $3 million suit against the state Department of Corrections and its director, saying he was fired in retaliation for raising ethical concerns. As …
A federal judge has refused to free Dover Area School District from a lawsuit filed by a former female student who for years was sexually abused by her music teacher. That teacher, Matthew Puterbaugh, is also a defendant in the U.S. Middle District Court suit. He is serving a sentence of 15 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography, plus a 5- to 10-year state prison term for …
Duracell has failed in its effort to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it violated Energizer Holdings Inc’s trademark rights by using a pink bunny on battery packages that closely resembled the sunglass-clad, drum-beating Energizer Bunny. In a decision last week, U.S. …
Those assurances came at a time when ManorCare was aware of the more than $6 billion in false claims billed by the company, Legal NewsLine reported. That billing fraud resulted in a series of whistleblower allegations against the provider, consolidated into one suit by the Department of Justice last year. News of the fraud resulted in a decline of HCP stock, which subsequently hurt investors, …