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Kroger Shooting Victim’s Family Sues Grocer, Says It Didn’t Do Enough to Prevent Bloodshed

Family members of Maurice Stallard, the man killed in last year’s shooting at the Jeffersontown Kroger, have filed a lawsuit against Kroger Co. and Gregory Bush, the accused shooter. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Charlotte Stallard, Maurice Stallard’s widow and the executrix of his estate, and Kellie Watson, the mother of Maurice’s grandson who was with him in the store at the time of the shooting. The lawsuit, filed in Jefferson Circuit Court, alleges Kroger allowed customers to enter the store with guns and had no policy in place to make sure Bush was licensed to carry his firearm. No effort was made by Kroger to stop the shooting, the lawsuit claims, despite a separate shooting that had occurred at the same store in 2007, and more than 20 other shootings at Kroger stores across the nation.


Apple Faces Customer Lawsuit Over App Store

A group of US consumers has been given the go-ahead by the Supreme Court to sue Apple over app prices. The iPhone users argued that there is no alternative place to buy an iPhone app, but that Apple takes a 30% commission on every sale, so therefore they are being overcharged. They claim that this puts Apple in breach of anti-trust laws. Apple said that it was an agent for app developers and that it neither owned nor sold the apps itself.


Apps Cost Too Much? Court Allows Suit Adding to Apple’s Woes

Consumers can pursue a lawsuit complaining that iPhone apps cost too much, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday, adding to Apple’s woes that already include falling iPhone sales and a European investigation. The lawsuit could have major implications for the tech giant’s handling of the more than 2 million apps in Apple’s App Store, where users get much of the software for their smartphones. While most of those apps are free to download, some impose fees for people to use the software and subscribe to the services. In those cases, Apple charges a commission of 30%, a practice that the lawsuit contends unfairly drives up the price for the apps. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion that agreed the antitrust lawsuit can move forward in a lower court.


Apple Can’t Escape App Store Antitrust Lawsuit Rules Supreme Court

Apple’s hopes to get an App Store antitrust lawsuit dismissed have fallen flat, with the US Supreme Court giving the go-ahead to a case alleging the iOS software download store is, indeed, a monopoly situation. It insisted that App Store customers were those of third-party developers using the download store to sell their titles, …


Lawsuit Filed After Detroit Police Officer Makes Violent Arrest at Meijer

Detroit Police Chief James Craig initially said the officer who struck a man at least four times, including once in the face, with his baton during a violent arrest at Meijer in Detroit Oct. 8 was justified. “Our findings are somewhat different than when I first reported this matter,” Craig said Monday. Craig now feels the officer should have taken steps to deescalate the situation before …


Alleged English-Only Policy Prompts Suit Against Forever 21

A popular clothing retailer in San Francisco is being sued over allegations the company violated the state’s Civil Rights laws by adopting an English-only policy in the store. The retailer, Forever 21, did not allow employees who are native Spanish speakers to speak Spanish at the store, according to the lawsuit. The lawyer for the plaintiffs said the workers were not allowed to speak Spanish …



Kane’s Furniture Settles Class-Action Suit

A preliminary settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit filed against Kane’s Furniture that accused the retailer of failing to honor lifetime warranties for defective “bonded leather” furniture that peeled, flaked and deteriorated. Related News/Archive Notices to about 15,000 customers who purchased the furniture were put in the mail starting Friday providing details and …


Lawsuit Alleging App Store Is a Monopoly Allowed to Proceed After Appeal

Our benevolent overlords at MacRumors have published an article talking about a lawsuit alleging the App Store is a monopoly due to the inability to purchase apps outside of the App Store. The lawsuit is a few years old, but an appeals court has allowed the lawsuit to go forward. If the plaintiffs win, one of their attorneys said to Reuters that “the obvious solution is to compel Apple to let …


Class-Action Lawsuit: Credit Card Receipts Risk ID Theft

Lawyers from three states put their names on a class-action lawsuit filed in Alamance County over the number of digits of credit-card numbers a retailer puts on receipts. Chapel Hill resident Timothy Miles accuses The Company Store of printing as many as 10 digits — the first six and last four — …