Associated Wholesale Grocers and potato industry defendants have resolved a lawsuit alleging price fixing by the United Potato Growers of America. “All legal matters between Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc. and potato industry defendants, including United Potato Growers of America, have been successfully resolved,” according to a statement from the potato group March …
Amazon.com, Inc. won’t have to face its delivery drivers’ wage and hour claims until the fall of 2017 or later. That’s when the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide if arbitration agreements that waive class actions are enforceable (Rittmann v. Amazon.com, Inc., 2017 BL 90916, W.D. Wash., No. …
A stockholder has filed a class action lawsuit against Netflix and two of its top executives, alleging the media company understated the impact of its subscription price hike in violation of federal law. James Ziolkowski filed a complaint on behalf of all others similarly situated on March 1 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California …
Neiman Marcus has agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle a data breach class action in Illinois federal court. The three-year-old case stemmed from the December 2013 cyber attack that exposed credit card data of an estimated 350,000 Neiman Marcus shoppers. The high-profile incident, caused by malware installed on Neiman Marcus terminals, was similar to a larger attack on Target and other …
Last month, we noted how New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued Charter Communications for knowingly providing broadband service well below advertised speeds. After an initial first read I didn’t think much of the lawsuit (pdf), but upon closer inspection it provides some pretty damning evidence that Charter not only knowingly failed to provide decent service (and just didn’t care, …
A Chicago federal judge has declined to let Wells Fargo off the hook of a junk fax class action lawsuit against the bank and one of its member services credit card processer, saying, even if Wells Fargo had no knowledge of the credit payment company’s decision to send a fax bearing its name, the bank’s name on the fax and business connection to its partner means it could share liability for the …
A developer sent a fake immigration agent to an East Harlem building to threaten rent-stabilized tenants, sparking an investigation by the state attorney general, according to a new lawsuit. Araceli and Rosa Ramos said that soon after the landlord of their E. 115th Street building died his children tried to sell the property to the Valley Stream, NY-based real estate investment company …
Pennsylvania’s auditor general says a Harrisburg-based abortion alternative provider is suing his office to cover-up how it spent $906,000 in state funds. Real Alternatives filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Commonwealth Court. The nonprofit has a $30.2 million grant through a Department of Human Services program that provides pregnancy testing, counseling and other …
The Trump administration filed a motion on March 7 to appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on a federal judge’s order in Juliana v. United States. Juliana v. United States is an historic case brought by 21 young plaintiffs who argue that their constitutional and public trust rights are being violated by the government’s creation of climate danger. The Trump administration also filed a …
As “digital disruption” changes the way we consume information, especially news, a top lawyer has called for new and novel ways to contact shareholders and consumer of products who might have a windfall from a class action. Barrister Michael Lee, SC, who’s run a host of major class actions on behalf of shareholders and consumers, said the traditional way of notifying investors about a class …