A new lawsuit filed against Robert Bentley alleges that the governor illegally delayed a special election to replace former U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions. Alabama Auditor Jim Zeigler and retired District Attorney Tommy Chapman of Evergreen, a Democrat, jointly argue that Bentley’s decision to set an election date in November of 2018 violates state law.
There seems to be some confusion whether or not Glacier County officials will allow taxpayers to pay their taxes under protest citing the ongoing Class Action Lawsuit that has been appealed to the Montana Supreme Court.At least one taxpayer had her protested tax payment and form “denied” by the Glacier County Treasurer’s Office on Monday, Dec. 12, reported Elaine Mitchell. “We are awaiting …
Wells Fargo & Co. enriched itself at its employees’ expense by including costly, in-house target date funds in its 401(k) plan, a new class action complaint alleges ( Meiners v. Wells Fargo & Co. , D. Minn., No. 0:16-cv-03981, complaint filed 11/22/16 ). In the past year, several proposed class actions have targeted financial companies that include in-house investment products in …
Wells Fargo faces a new lawsuit claiming 401k self-dealing on the part of $3 billion of employee retirement savings. Plaintiffs allege the company funneled 401k plan assets into “expensive, under-performing” proprietary target date funds to enrich itself. Reuters reports the proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in federal court in Minnesota, accused the third-largest U.S. bank of steering 401(k) contributions to its Wells Fargo Dow Jones Target Date funds. The lawsuit, filed by employees, seeks to “recoup excess fees and unrealized profits stemming from Wells Fargo’s alleged breach of fiduciary duties to all 401(k) participants over the last six years,” according to the complaint. It added that Wells Fargo’s target date funds cost 2.5 times more than similar funds from …
An Alberta man with a dream of racking up enough Air Miles to go on a South Pacific vacation is the plaintiff in a potential class-action lawsuit against the loyalty-rewards program, which has said older miles will begin expiring at the end of this year. The statement of claim for the class action, yet to be certified, was filed this week on behalf of David Helm of Red Deer, Alta., and could …
The City of St. Louis must refund $750,400 to the 21,000 people who paid “warrant recall fees” in the past seven years. On July 19, St. Louis Circuit Court Judge David Dowd gave final approval on a class-action lawsuit settlement with the city – which also deemed that St. Louis can never charge these fees again. In St. Louis, if you missed a court date regarding a warrant fee, the court would …
Two years after the launch of dating app 3nder, Match Group, the owner of red-hot dating app Tinder, is suing for trademark infringement. 3nder has been called the “Tinder for threesomes” since its launch, and the company has long embraced that marketing. (Its official tagline: “Date kinky, curious, and open-minded couples and singles.”)
The province’s top court said Wednesday that more than 1,000 people who were detained by police in Toronto during the G20 summit in 2010 can sue Toronto Police and others through class action. In its decision, the Ontario Court of Appeal said that class actions are appropriate and would provide strong remedies, agreeing that police cannot sweep people up in the hopes one of them may have done …
A year and a half after Sony Pictures was devastated in a massive hack that saw thousands of employees’ personal information ending up exposed online, the class action lawsuit against the studio has come to an end — though legal action from the hack itself hasn’t. Today in a sometimes contentious hearing in federal court in downtown Los Angeles, a multimillion-dollar settlement stemming from …