A Georgia federal court has considered whether a former homeowner’s lawsuit against the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) for conversion of property that she had left in her home after the property was foreclosed could proceed. Elizabeth Mwangi (“Owner”) owned a residential property with a mortgage. The Owner experienced financial hardship and stopped making mortgage payments …
A class action lawsuit against Bose Corp. for alleged violations of a California law designed to protect consumers’ privacy and personal information may be moving toward a resolution as lawyers for both sides have had cooperative discussions about the case, the plaintiffs’ attorney said. “They have not admitted any fault,” attorney E. Elliot Adler of the Adler Law …
A ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has opened up the door for personal injury cases involving NFL concussions to now be tried as class action lawsuits. The reason why this is such a big deal is that the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1997 decision in Amchem v. Windsor and its 1999 followup, Ortiz v. Fibreboard, made the use of class actions to settle large swaths of personal…
Black Saturday settlement distributions could start by end of year People claiming person injury or dependency may receive about 70 per cent of their loss while those claiming economic or property loss will receive about 30 per cent, a ruling by the Victorian Supreme Court said.File image Distributions from the $494 million class action settlement over the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in…
Jessica Meiselman is a New York licensed attorney specializing in entertainment and intellectual property issues. Here she explains the recent class action lawsuit brought against Kanye West and Tidal. A lawsuit filed on Monday claims Kanye West and Tidal lied about Tidal’s exclusivity of his album in an attempt to obtain personal info and drive subscriber numbers.
I get a lot of people popping up with data breaches for Have I been pwned (HIBP). There’s an interesting story in that itself actually, one I must get around to writing in the future as folks come from all sorts of different backgrounds and offer up data they’ve come across in various locations. Recently someone sent me a list of various data breaches they’d obtained, including this one: …