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Uber Hit With Australia Class Action Ahead of Stock Listing

Law firm Maurice Blackburn said their clients want to recover income they claim is lost as a result of Uber allegedly operating without proper licences for their drivers and vehicles. “It is shaping (up) as one of the largest class actions in Australian history,” said the firm’s head of class actions Andrew Watson. “Make no mistake, this will be a landmark case regarding the alleged illegal …


Uber Hit With Australia Class Action Ahead of Stock Listing

Law firm Maurice Blackburn said their clients want to recover income they claim is lost as a result of Uber allegedly operating without proper licences for their drivers and vehicles. “It is shaping (up) as one of the largest class actions in Australian history,” said the firm’s head of class actions Andrew Watson. “Make no mistake, this will be a landmark case regarding the alleged illegal …


GlaxoSmithKline Agrees to Pay Out Millions in Diabetes Drug Class Action

The plaintiffs in the case claimed Avandia, which is used to treat Type 2 diabetes, increased the risk of cardiovascular events including heart attacks and congestive heart failure. It took almost a decade for the class-action lawsuit to finally deliver results for the plaintiffs. The company will pay $3,666,666.67 into a fund for people who suffered myocardial infarction, coronary artery …


Sweeping Class-Action Lawsuit Could Force Unions Nationwide to Refund Millions in Fees

“The argument is once something is deemed to be unconstitutional [in the civil context] — agency fees — then they’re deemed to be retroactively unconstitutional. But that decision, he said, should be made free from the external pressures created by mandatory agency fees. AFSCME and other unions, Hughes acknowledged, can be expected to fight the lawsuit “tooth and nail,” given the amount of …


Wendy’s to Pay Millions in Class-Action Data Breach Settlement

(TNS) — Wendy’s will pay $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit from a data breach that hit more than 1,000 of its restaurants in 2015 and 2016. On Wednesday, the Ohio-based burger chain announced the pending agreement with financial institutions that alleged Wendy’s did not protect customer credit card information. Wendy’s said it will pay $27.5 million of the settlement, with the rest …


Settlement Reached in Superman Building Lawsuit

A lawsuit over the upkeep of the Superman Building in downtown Providence has been settled ahead of a trial slated to start Monday. The building’s owner was seeking millions of dollars for what he called faulty maintenance. The Superman Building, formally known as the Industrial National Bank Building, has been vacant since 2013.


Why Netflix Is Getting Sued by Its Own Users

Netflix is one of the fastest growing successes that the entertainment industry has ever seen, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down in the future. As one would assume, the streaming giant didn’t get that popular through stupidity and lazy marketing, but one user seems to think he has found a way around the somewhat controversial recent price hike, and it involves slapping Netflix with a …



‘YouTube Content-Id Abusers Could Face Millions of Dollars in Damages’

WatchMojo, one of the most viewed channels on YouTube, is striking back at Content-ID abusers. Last weekend WatchMojo’s CEO Ashkan Karbasfrooshan published a video in which he exposed some of the worst Content-ID abusers. What plays a major role here is that protesting Content-ID claims may eventually lead to copyright notices. However, WatchMojo believes that abusive rightsholders are opening …