The College Board announced they would change the scores for the students who were given a lower score than they earned, but at this point many of those students had already applied to colleges using their original scores. The College Board decided not to change the scores for the students who were given a higher score than they earned. A lawsuit was filed in 2005 by about 4,400 students who …
Does this sound familiar: You answer a phone call from a number you don’t recognize. The automated voice on the other end of the call congratulates you on possibly winning a free vacation cruise. In reality, you probably did not win a cruise.
The most effective way to fight telemarketers? Sue them and force a settlement—one worth up to $12.5 million. A Chicago judge approved a settlement last month that forces Carnival, Norwegian, Royal Caribbean, and a marketing company that worked with them to pay up for spamming people with pre-recorded telemarketing calls that promoted the cruise lines.
Thanks to a class-action lawsuit, people who received telemarkerting calls promising a free cruise between 2009 and 2014 could be entitled to $900. The class-action lawsuit alleged that a company called Resort Marketing Group violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act when they made robocalls, allegedly offering free Caribbean cruises. Resort Marketing Group has denied any wrongdoing, but …
A jury awarded a Castle Rock couple the second largest medical negligence verdict in Colorado history on Thursday, the couple’s attorney said. Robbin and Ed Smith received $14.9 million from The Surgery Center at Lone Tree in the case after an injection caused her to be paralyzed from the waist down because of a spinal cord infarction. Robbin was 57-years-old when she …
The NYSE is bracing for a civil lawsuit from the SEC after a botched technology upgrade paralyzed the exchange for about four hours in July 2015. In an announcement on Tuesday, Intercontinental Exchange, the NYSE’s parent company, confirmed that it had received a Wells Notice that states the SEC’s intention to sue. Read more Intercontinental Partners received its Wells Notice on December 29, …
Queensland class action over unpaid wages for Indigenous people ‘setting a national precedent’ Posted September 23, 2016 12:54:51 Lawyers say a class action in Queensland over unpaid wages to Aboriginal people is setting a national precedent, as dozens more come forward in other states to say they were not paid properly. Key points: More than 300 people are suing the Queensland Government in …
When the technology firm SPARC sold the core of its business last fall, its executives were in for a big payday. Their incentive packages, intended to give them a stake in the company’s success, awarded them a slice of the eight-figure deal, which was among the highest-profile and priciest buyouts in Charleston’s technology industry in recent years. The question is, how much should they have made?
A Federal Civil Rights lawsuit has been filed against Gerber Collision and Glass. A 21-year-old claims he was the victim of racist behavior, at the Novi location, where he recently quit. Ernest Garner filed the lawsuit this week against the auto repair shop headquartered in Illinois and his supervisor in Novi.
A New Jersey couple who claim they were scared away from their home after receiving creepy letters from someone named “The Watcher” can move forward with a lawsuit against the home’s former owners, a Superior Court judge ruled on Thursday. Judge Camille Kenny rejected a motion to dismiss the lawsuit but threw out some of the claims made by Derek and Maria Broaddus, including …