A group of managed-care organizations can sue NorthShore University HealthSystem over allegations that they were charged anticompetitive prices for healthcare after the 2000 merger that created the system. An Illinois federal judge largely preserved a class-action lawsuit against NorthShore stemming from the 2000 merger of Evanston (Ill.) Northwestern Healthcare and Highland Park (Ill.) …
SiliconBeat reports Google has agreed to pay a $5.5 million settlement in a class-action suit that resulted from cookie placement that worked around Apple Safari do-not-track settings. The lawsuit suggested Google collected the user data to boost ad revenue. “Behaviorally targeted advertisements based on a user’s tracked internet activity generally sell for at least twice as much as non- …
Nearly two years ago, the Federal Trade Commission sued AT&T for allegedly misleading wireless customers by charging them for “unlimited” data plans while simultaneously throttling their cellular connection speeds when they passed certain monthly thresholds. AT&T failed in 2015 to get the case dismissed in District Court, but yesterday succeeded in convincing a federal appeals court to throw …
A federal appeals court in California on Monday dismissed a U.S. government lawsuit that accused AT&T of deception for reducing internet speeds for customers with unlimited mobile data plans once their use exceeded certain levels. The company, however, could still face a fine from the Federal Communications Commission regarding the slowdowns, also called “data throttling.” The U.S. …
A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit by federal officials that claimed AT&T misled millions of smartphone customers with unlimited data plans who had their Internet speeds cut. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday that AT&T was exempt from the prohibition against unfair and deceptive practices that the Federal …
AT&T has managed to successfully tap dance around a class action lawsuit filed by customers whose “unlimited” wireless data connections were throttled without AT&T making the restrictions clear. US District Court Judge Edward Chen has told customers suing the telco for its misleading throttling practices that they can’t sue as part of a class action — because they signed a contract with AT&T …
by Avivah Litan | March 14, 2016 | Submit a Comment In a little noticed but highly significant event, two small Florida merchants are lead plaintiffs in a potential class action suing the financial services industry for conspiring to get the merchants to eat more fraud. The merchants point out that their fraud rates and charges have risen more than twenty times since the October 2015 EMV …