Jessica Alba turned 35 today, but she got a not-so-welcome early birthday present yesterday. The Organic Consumers Association filed a lawsuit against her business The Honest Company, claiming it falsely labels its Premium Infant Formula as “organic.” …
A federal judge has granted preliminary approval for a lawsuit accusing Merck & Co Inc(MRK.N) of underpaying female sales representatives to go forward as a collective action. The lawsuit is seeking at least $250 million in damages. U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp in Trenton, New Jersey, on Wednesday granted conditional certification to a proposed class of current and former representatives …
The Modesto Irrigation District faces two separate class-action lawsuits, both accusing the utility of overcharging electricity customers to subsidize farmers’ water prices. Both ask that a judge grant class status enabling tens of thousands of electricity customers to join the lawsuit and ask for refunds. Although filed for similar reasons within two weeks of each other, the lawsuits were …
A lawsuit accusing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of violating U.S. discrimination law by hiring a “stunningly low” number of people over the age of 40 to maintain a youthful culture has been filed in San Francisco. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court, said the London-based accounting company does virtually all of its recruiting for entry-level jobs on college campuses to stock its …
More people join a class action lawsuit against the City of Amarillo. Four new plaintiffs were added to the suit earlier this month. The lawsuit alleges the city unconstitutionally jails people who can’t afford to pay class “c” misdemeanors.
The City of Hannibal and the Hannibal Board of Public Works have filed a motion for a change of venue in a class-action lawsuit leveled against the two entities. The motion was filed in the 10th judicial circuit on Tuesday, April 26. If approved, action in the lawsuit — which alleges the BPW failed to provide potable water to customers, exposing them to “probable human carcinogens” — would take …
Mark Thompson, the chief executive of the New York Times and former director-general of the BBC, is facing a multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit alleging that he introduced a culture of “deplorable discrimination” based on age, race and gender at the newspaper. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two black female employees in their sixties in New York on Thursday, claims that under Thompson’s …
Imagine suddenly being bombarded by unsolicited text messages from the social network Facebook. Now imagine this happening despite the fact that you’re not a member of said network and have no interest in becoming one. That’s the predicament Christine Holt of Washington, D.C., says she found herself in last month when she obtained a new cell phone number from MetroPCS.
LENOVO-OWNED Motorola has been slapped with a $5m class action lawsuit over allegations of shoddy customer service and not honouring warranty policies. News of the lawsuit comes via Trusted Reviews, which learned this week that the complaint was filed against Motorola on 21 April in Illinois, accusing the company of “unfair, unscrupulous, immoral and oppressive” business practices. The …
A group of people affected by toxic humidifier sterilizers plan to file a class-action lawsuit next month against the manufacturers, distributors and the government. The group of plaintiffs, the Asian Citizen’s Center for Environment and Health, and Lawyers for a Democratic Society or Minbyun held a news conference on Tuesday in southern Seoul to announce the plan. Minbyun lawyers who will …