A lawsuit alleging Costco illegally charged New Jersey residents sales tax for toilet paper has been dismissed by a U.S. District Court judge. Robert Arnold of Leonia filed suit after claiming the wholesaler charged him and his wife 7 percent sales tax on toilet paper twice in 2015 – once at the Wayne store and another time at the Hackensack store, which has since moved to Teterboro. …
A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday kicked an Exxon Mobil Corp lawsuit seeking to thwart two states from pursuing a fraud case over climate change to a Manhattan court, saying his court wasn’t the best place to resolve the dispute. A group of state attorneys general, led by New York’s Eric Schneiderman, brought a securities fraud suit against the world’s largest publicly …
A U.S. judge will hear arguments on Thursday over whether to grant final approval to a $25 million settlement of fraud lawsuits against President Donald Trump over his Trump University real estate investment seminars, with at least one former student objecting to the deal. Sherri Simpson of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who paid $19,000 to learn Trump’s investing …
President Trump wants to derail a defamation suit filed by a former contestant on his reality TV show “The Apprentice” by claiming immunity through his job as the nation’s commander-in-chief, according to court papers made public Tuesday. Summer Zervos, who last year accused then-candidate Trump of groping and pressing his privates against her in 2007, sued him three days before his Jan. 20 …
No one ever accused the litigation process of being overly expeditious, but a $4 million settlement approved by U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong will finally put an end to a class action lawsuit that has spanned nearly seven years. The original suit was filed by lead plaintiff Moises Zepeda, who sued PayPal in 2010 for allegedly closing his account and pocketing the money and …
A St. Louis disabled man and a civil rights organization have filed a class action lawsuit against FKG Oil Company d/b/a MotoMart, citing alleged discrimination for lack of accommodations for patrons with disabilities. DeMaurion Davis and Access Now Inc., individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, filed a complaint on Feb. 28 in the U.S. District Court for the …
A jury has sided with the Cleveland Indians in the lawsuit brought by a fan who was partially blinded by a foul ball during a game. Keith Rawlins, of Rochester, New York will get no money after jurors found the team was not responsible for Rawlins’ injuries during the July 20, 2012 incident at Progressive Field. The jury announced its verdict late Friday, after a day of …
A Beijing court has overturned a ruling that Apple’s iPhone 6 violated a Chinese manufacturer’s patent which saw the US tech giant ordered to cease selling the smartphone in China. In May last year the Beijing intellectual property bureau had ruled that Apple violated design patents of Chinese maker Shenzhen Baili with its iPhone6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and would be barred from selling those …
Harbor Freight, a national tool and equipment retailer with more than 750 stores nationwide, has settled a class-action lawsuit which could get shoppers up to 30 percent back on their purchases. If you made a purchase at Harbor Freight between April 8, 2011 and Dec. 15, 2016, you could receive benefits from the settlement. A court granted preliminary approval of the settlement on Dec. 15, 2016.
A Michigan consumer has filed a class-action lawsuit accusing a West Palm Beach company of using an unlawful telemarketing campaign. Richard Frost filed a complaint individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated on March 21 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against National Auto Protection Corp. alleging violation of the Telephone Consumer …