Eat fresh? More like eat lies. Subway, everyone’s favorite purveyor of cheap, overcompensating sandwiches, promised this week to finally give customers every single inch of food they’ve long been promised.
News Corp has reached a $250m settlement in a class action lawsuit brought against it by several major consumer brands who accused the company of monopolistic practices and overcharging for in-store advertising in the US. Dial Corp and Kraft Heinz led the class action lawsuit which represented over 500 companies who claimed News Corp’s marketing division, News America Marketing, had been using …
News Corp has agreed to pay out a total of $280 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit brought by several major packaged goods brands that accused the company of using its monopoly position to over-charge clients for in-store promotional advertising. The case was first brought in 2012 (a year before the separation of …
Subway is making a major change to its sandwiches, all because of a photo that an Australian teen posted to the company’s Facebook page years ago. The photo was posted by Matt Corby. It showed a Subway footlong sub next to a tape measure that indicated the sandwich was only 11 inches long and the caption “Subway pls respond.”
Dow Chemical said Friday it will pay $835 million to settle a long-standing class action lawsuit, after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia decreased its chances of prevailing at the Supreme Court. The announcement is an early indication of how corporations are shifting their legal strategy following the loss of the court’s 5-4 conservative majority. “I think most corporations facing class …
My visit occurred during the final days of one of the worst natural gas leaks in U.S. history, caused by a damaged well at the largest underground natural gas storage facility in the western part of the country. The Aliso Canyon storage facility, operated by the Southern California Gas Company (also known as SoCalGas), emitted 97,100 metric tonnes of methane during the months-long leak, …
Dow Chemical agreed to settle a class action lawsuit after determining the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made victory less likely. The company agreed to pay $835m (£602m) – less than the $1.06bn a court in Kansas ordered it to pay in 2013. Dow was hoping the Supreme Court would overturn the ruling, but the death of Justice Scalia left it evenly spilt between conservatives and …
Slater & Gordon announces almost $1 billion loss by Jonathan Shapiro and Sarah Danckert Slater & Gordon has two months to the secure the support of National Australia Bank and Westpac Banking Corp The Melbourne-based company posted a $958 million first-half losss, which is three times the combined profits since it became the first law firm in the world to float on a stock market in 2007. The …
Under the most optimistic scenario, the catastrophic gas leak at Porter Ranch might be plugged by the end of this week, according to a recent announcement by a California state official. However, other state officials and the SoCalGas company warn it could take until the end of the month. Ever since a natural gas storage well near the Los Angeles-area community of Porter Ranch ruptured on …
Borrowers suing a debt collector working for online tribal lender Western Sky Financial can proceed with their proposed class action, a federal appeals court ruled, reversing a lower court’s decision that the dispute must be arbitrated. Filed in 2014, the lawsuit sought damages from Delbert Services Corp, a Las Vegas-based company that collected overdue loans issued by Western Sky and a related …