Rulings to be made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on cases related to class certification could have a significant impact on a split between federal court stances on how strict the criteria for certification should be, especially for suppliers of dietary supplements faced with lawsuits in California courts. “If class members must have some …
Communications giant Comcast is facing a lawsuit in Missouri. This is a class-action lawsuit, seeking compensation and punitive damages for all Missouri Comcast customers who purchased the protection plan after August of 2011.
A recently introduced “revenge porn” statute could be a powerful tool for the woman who was photographed nude in a gym by Playboy Playmate Playboy Playmate Dani Mathers’ Snapchat indiscretion could end up costing her big-time, if the subject of the body-shaming post she published earlier this month decides to file suit. Mathers — who took a photo of an unwitting nude woman at her gym and posted …
Former Death Row Records CEO claims “gang associate” singer and L.A.’s 1OAK nightclub failed to provide sufficient security Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight has filed a lawsuit against singer Chris Brown and the owners of a Los Angeles nightclub for damages related to a shooting that left the former Death Row Records CEO seriously wounded. In papers filed in L.A. Superior Court on Monday, Knight …
As you’d expect from the world’s largest seller of consumer electronics, Apple gets sued a lot. Some of those suits go places, others get dismissed out of hand the first time they get to court. And then there’s Florida.
Tyson Foods has asked for a new trial in a case in which workers at its Storm Lake pork plant were awarded $5.8 million. In a brief filed last week in U.S. District Court in Sioux City, Tyson lawyers said a new trial is needed to address both liability and damages issues. The food company said a new trial would help determine which of the workers included in the class action …
Oracle is set to appeal a decision which, if it stands, will require Big Red to make a US$3 billion contribution to HPE’s top line. HP launched the action in Oracle’s 2011 decision to quit developing software for Intel’s Itanium processors. Oracle believed there was no future in the Itanium architecture, but HP pressed ahead (it still uses the architecture in its Integrity Superdome family).
A judge has ruled that the plaintiffs may seek damages. The coffee chain is facing numerous accusations of short-changing customers by underfilling its lattes. Starbucks is facing a class action lawsuit…
In a recently filed class action lawsuit, the plaintiffs allege Uber Technologies, Inc. (“Uber”) sent autodialed text messages to individuals after those individuals opted out of the messages by texting back “stop,” which, the plaintiffs allege, would be a violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). The class representative is an Uber driver applicant who …
A class-action lawsuit against Facebook with major ramifications for privacy in Internet communications moved one step closer to trial, Courthouse News Service reports. The case, which claims Facebook illegally mines private messages for advertising, would be the first to claim users have property rights in their Facebook messages. Chief U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton partially certified …