[Update] When a federal judge in Texas handed down a $663 million fraud verdict last summer against the Dallas-based maker of guardrails used on highways all over the country, a lot of people started seeing dollar signs, …
Uber – which at its latest valuation of $62.5bn is the world’s most valuable private startup – has paid huge sums of money in legal settlements across the world since the taxi-hailing company was founded in 2009. As the increasingly powerful ride-sharing startup continues its rapid growth, we’re tracking the diverse court battles forcing Uber and its investors to pay out. Its strategy of …
Fresh from a $14 million victory that had Warner/Chappell backing off from ownership claims over “Happy Birthday to You,” the attorneys at Wolf Haldenstein now have chosen their encore with a new lawsuit that seeks to establish that the worldwide famous protest song, “We Shall Overcome,” is conclusively in the public domain. The putative class action, filed Tuesday in New York federal court …
More than a decade ago, Rita Gorenflo of Palm Beach Gardens signed on as a plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit against the state of Florida on behalf of nearly two million poor and disabled children on Medicaid. Through a lengthy Miami trial and the appeal of the judge’s scathing findings against the state, Gorenflo lost a son, while she raised six other adopted disabled children to …
Owners of Mercedes diesel cars filed a new class-action lawsuit in the United States saying the vehicles likely contained a “defeat device” used to cheat emissions testing, an accusation that Daimler, which owns the carmaker, denied. U.S. law firm Hagens Berman, which had already …
Uber will pay the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles up to $25 million as part of a lawsuit that accused the startup of misrepresenting its background checks. In 2014, district attorneys brought the suit against Uber for not vetting its drivers thoroughly while claiming its background checks were the “gold standard” in the industry. The cities said Uber’s system was actually not as …
Owners of Mercedes diesel cars filed a new class-action lawsuit in the United States saying the vehicles likely contained a “defeat device” used to cheat emissions testing, an accusation that Daimler (DAIGn.DE), which owns the carmaker, denied. U.S. law firm Hagens Berman, which had already filed a complaint in February, said new tests had shown that Mercedes BlueTEC cars produced …
It turns out Volkswagen isn’t the only automaker facing backlash for its diesel cars. Mercedes-Benz owners have filed a class-action lawsuit against the automaker over its allegedly high diesel emissions. Led by U.S. law firm Hagens Berman, the lawsuit alleges the automaker knowingly programmed its diesel cars to emit dangerous levels of nitrogen oxides at low temperatures.
Uber is on the hook for $10 million after settling a California lawsuit over its misleading statements regarding driver background checks. In 2014, the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco sued the ride-hailing company for claiming its background checks were the most thorough in the industry. In fact, Uber failed to take drivers’ fingerprints like many taxi companies do.
The lawsuit accuses Mayor Bill de Blasio’s education department of failing to keep children safe in schools. Ten parents backed by a powerful charter-school advocacy group have sued New York City schools, alleging that the nation’s largest school system has failed to address escalating levels …