The largest bank in the United States settled a class-action lawsuit this week that stemmed from outcry over excessive fees the institution charged former prison inmates over the last four years. JPMorgan Chase won a government contract in 2008 to furnish inmates freed from all U.S. federal prisons with debit cards connected to money they were sent or earned while …
Robert Taylor insists he’s a good guy, but says the state of Virginia has treated him like a bad one ever since he got buried under a pile of unpaid traffic tickets, fees and fines. The 28-year-old Richmond man spends weekends in jail, can’t hold a job and does not know how he will ever pay off the nearly $5,000 he owes the state. “I’m not a criminal in any sense of the word,” Robert Taylor …
The bill for a lawsuit over raises for county officials continues to grow. As of July 28, Onondaga County had paid $154,340.82 to outside lawyers to defend a lawsuit from another elected official. In January, County Comptroller Bob Antonacci sued 19 county officials over the raises approved last year.
Nvidia has been fighting off a variety of class action suits related to the way the GTX 970 was advertised when it was released in 2014. It appears those cases are coming to a close after the graphics card maker agreed to a preliminary settlement in the consolidated cases. Under the agreed terms, Nvidia will pay all members of the class who purchased GTX 970 cards $30, and will also cover about …
Charlottesville’s Legal Aid Justice Center is challenging a system that they say is punishing the poor. It’s filed a class action lawsuit in federal court, asserting that Virginia is crippling hundreds of thousands of low-income residents by suspending their driver’s licenses for failure to pay court costs and fines. Legal Aid says our current approach is simply unconstitutional.
A manager for Joe’s Kwik Marts filed a federal class action lawsuit against the company, alleging she and other managers improperly were denied overtime pay in violation of state and federal wage laws. Jenny Shiptoski of Old Forge claims she routinely worked 50 to 70 hours per week at several of the company’s convenience stores. The firm improperly avoided paying her overtime by classifying her …
After struggling with addiction and mental illness, Jayne Fuentes served her time, found a job and got her life back on track. But even though she’d been sober and crime-free for years, one thing dogged her: fear of being jailed or forced to do physical labor because she can’t afford to pay the government. Jayne is among the scores of people who owe Benton County, Washington thousands of …
Jackson has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit by ending the practice of jailing indigent people who can’t pay fines and fees in misdemeanor cases. The city agreed to give indigent defendants the choice …
Banking giants have been through tough times over the past decade or so owing to the global economic meltdown but HSBC has lurched from one controversy to the next with alarming regularity. The fallout from …
HSBC said it will pay $1.57bn to end a class action lawsuit over its 2003 purchase of Household International that could have exposed it to $3.6bn in payouts. The bank said it would take a pre-tax charge of around $585m in the second quarter. HSBC merged Household International with another unit to …