When Apple launched its first iPad back in 2010, the company also unveiled an e-books marketplace. Federal courts say the company broke antitrust laws by setting prices with book publishers to target Amazon and its Kindle reader.Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Imageshide caption When Apple launched its first iPad back in 2010, the company also unveiled an e-books marketplace. Federal courts say the …
Home Depot Inc. agreed to pay at least $19.5 million to compensate U.S. consumers harmed by a 2014 data breach affecting more than 50 million cardholders. The home improvement retailer will set up a $13 million fund to reimburse shoppers for out-of-pocket losses, and spend at least $6.5 million to fund 1-1/2 years of cardholder identity protection services. Home Depot also agreed to improve …
The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to hear Apple’s appeal of a lower court decision that it conspired with five publishers to increase e-book prices. Apple must now pay $450 million as part of its anti-trust e-book settlement. Amazon, however, is probably grinning like the Cheshire Cat.
The trigger box to a Walker Fire Control mechanism taken from a Model 700 rifle. Using the image, the photographer discussed maintenance. (Photo: ShootersForum.com)
The infamous Remington trigger defect has been tied to a hunting accident involving a Texas man whose injury resulted in him having half his leg removed.
A judge has granted Google’s request to delay a privacy lawsuit until after the Supreme Court decides whether consumers can sue in federal court without proving they suffered an economic injury. U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California said in a ruling issued Friday that the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision in a matter involving the online data aggregator Spokeo “may provide …
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 …
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 …
Justice department lawyers have been accused of withholding documents that show a priest who worked at an infamous Indian residential school for nearly four decades was a serial sexual predator even as they persuaded an adjudicator to deny compensation to a former student who said the priest abused him. The man, who was a student of St. Anne’s Indian Residential School in Fort Albany, Ont., is …
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 …
January 27, 2016 FLINT – A coalition of local citizens and national groups filed suit today to ask a federal court to step in and secure access to safe drinking water for the people of Flint, Michigan. Alleging violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, the complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan by the ACLU of Michigan, the Natural Resources …