When Apple got in touch with Amazon about the issue, the website told the former that it got most of its chargers from Mobile Star LLC. The iPhone-maker stressed that since counterfeit cables and chargers don’t go through consumer safety testing and could be poorly designed, they’re prone to overheating and catching fire. They might even electrocute users.
A federal appellate court in California has agreed to decide whether consumers can proceed with a class-action lawsuit against AT&T over the company’s data-throttling practices. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals announced on Thursday that it would hear the consumers’ appeal of a trial judge’s decision to send the case to arbitration. The legal dispute dates to 2014, when three California …
The Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in Portland, Ore. is seen in this file photo. The Westland Irrigation District in Northeast Oregon is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of cheating smaller growers out of water.
An appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday dealt a setback to a long-running lawsuit against the wireless industry over health concerns surrounding cellphones, deciding that a different legal standard for evidence should have been applied. The decision by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals will further prolong the litigation, initially filed in 2001, as plaintiffs must now produce …
Class actions play a vital role in our legal system. These lawsuits are often the only vehicle for injured plaintiffs to receive compensation when a defendant’s wrongs are widely disbursed and it would be impractical for a single individual to sue. Yet the process of settling these suits is subject to perverse incentives on the part of the lawyers representing the injured parties.
A federal judge has approved a $13.3 million settlement between a court-appointed receiver overseeing properties at the center of the largest alleged fraud case in the state’s history and a bank for one of the accused developers. “The settlement agreement was entered into in good faith, is at arm’s length, and is not collusive,” Judge Darrin P. Gayles wrote on Tuesday, after accepting the …
A Philadelphia law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against the City of Philadelphia, claiming its police department has issued unauthorized speeding tickets on state highways for more than four years. Philadelphia-based law firm Kang Haggerty & Fetbroyt announced the suit on Wednesday, which was initially filed in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on Oct. 4 and …
A Seoul district court on Thursday ruled against a group of 1,890 consumers who have filed a class-action lawsuit against Hyundai Motor Co. over the alleged exaggeration of the gas mileage of an SUV made by the country’s No. 1 automaker. The Seoul Central District Court said that as the result of the transport ministry’s fuel efficiency test on the Santa Fe 2-liter diesel SUV has not been fully …
Under pressure of a lawsuit challenging the city’s at-large electoral system , the City Council will soon decide whether to fight the suit in court or relent and change the way West Covina residents vote in city elections. It could also potentially be very expensive. “It is roughly a $4 (million) to $5 million gamble for the city to take,” said attorney James Touchstone, a lawyer …
Volkswagen AG is asking for a final sign-off on its $14.7 billion settlement with drivers as it continues to seek regulators’ approval of a fix for 482,000 pollution-spewing vehicles still on U.S. roads. Without an approved repair, VW may be left with only one option: buy back the cars with so-called defeat devices from the owners. And the German automaker might have to do the same for a …