Membership


Donald Trump Won’t Be Getting Out of This Lawsuit

A U.S. District Court judge denied Trump’s motion to have a suit against his Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, dismissed. The case was presented before Judge Kenneth Marra in August during a two-day non-jury trial. Marra has yet to issue a decision. Before the trial began, lawyers for Trump asked that the case be dismissed. Marra denied …


Muslim Discrimination: Edible Arrangements Founder Kamran Farid Denied Membership to Connecticut Yacht Club

The co-founder of fruit basket company Edible Arrangements has filed a lawsuit against a prestigious yacht club in Branford, Connecticut, claiming he was denied full membership because of his race, religion and country of origin. Kamran Farid, who was born in Pakistan but moved to the U.S. when he was a toddler, is Muslim. Farid, along with his wife Kara, filed the lawsuit last week against …


LA Fitness Reaches Settlement in Membership Misrepresentation Lawsuit

After nearly eight months of litigation, LA Fitness and its parent company, Fitness International LLC, last Thursday reached an out-of-court settlement in a class action lawsuit in which the health club chain was accused of misrepresenting one-month membership renewals. The sum of the settlement has not been disclosed. The lawsuit was first filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District …


Angie’s List Agrees to Settle Class-Action Suit for $1.4 Million

Angie’s List Inc. has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming it manipulated search results and ratings to favor advertisers—claims that the home-services company denies. Judge Stewart Dalzell of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania signed off on the settlement proposal last month and signed a scheduling order earlier this month. In recent …


Class Action by Hilary Achauer

Affiliate owners share the various ways they’ve tailored the group-class model to create strong businesses that produce fitter clients. Johnny DiGregorio opened CrossFit Pasadena in 2008. What started as a small community grew into a group of more than 240 members training in a 5,600-square-foot gym.