Uber has devised a “clever and sophisticated” scheme in which it manipulates navigation data used to determine “upfront” rider fare prices while secretly short-changing the driver, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit against the ride-hailing app. When a rider uses Uber’s app to hail a ride, the fare the app immediately shows to the passenger is based on a slower and longer route …
San Francisco company Modern Appeals Clothing says Ivanka’s company, Ivanka Trump Marks, has an “unfair advantage” due to her White House connections. It calls for restraining orders to prevent the brand from competing unfairly in California. “President Donald J. Trump and his individual and White House employees and agents have, since the election, promoted defendant Ivanka Trump’s brand by …
A lawsuit alleging Costco illegally charged New Jersey residents sales tax for toilet paper has been dismissed by a U.S. District Court judge. Robert Arnold of Leonia filed suit after claiming the wholesaler charged him and his wife 7 percent sales tax on toilet paper twice in 2015 – once at the Wayne store and another time at the Hackensack store, which has since moved to Teterboro. …
Port Authority cops target men who seem gay or androgynous and arrest them on false charges of public masturbation and exposure at the city’s bus terminal, a new class-action lawsuit claims. The cops have been falsely arresting men for years to increase “quality of life” arrest statistics, says the suit, which was filed in federal court in Manhattan on Monday. Cops spy on men who seems “gay or …
Lawyers in Pennsylvania say their client was sexually exploited at a motel for years, alleging the teen girl was a victim of human trafficking who was forced to have sex with more than 1,000 men. The teen’s lawyers are using Pennsylvania’s human trafficking law to sue the motel where they say their client was sexually exploited, marking the first civil suit under the law since it was enacted in …
Michiganders who say they were falsely flagged for unemployment fraud by the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency computer system are going after the state contractors who provided the technology in a federal lawsuit. “They are the businesses that got paid millions of dollars…. to design and implement the systems that we know positively, unequivocally failed in what they were …
A class action suit has been filed against the United States military, alleging that many servicemen and women are being denied full disability benefits. Retired Marine Corporal Simon Soto claims that members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard are being denied the full amount of their retroactive Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC). Denied benefits Soto …
PayPal’s donation tools stiff some charities, new class action lawsuit alleges Anita Balakrishnan | @MsABalakrishnan When charitable accounts are not set up correctly, PayPal continues to accept donations on their behalf, the suit alleges. Instead of notifying donors and nonprofits of the error, PayPal takes the money after six months and redirects it to another charity “without regard to the …
A proposed class-action lawsuit contends the state’s largest utility is overbilling some customers with solar power systems. The suit, filed by a Cherry Hill man, contends PSE&G and a third-party electricity provider, Stream Energy New Jersey, fail to properly credit customers who supply power to the regional grid through their homes’ solar panels. Under state law, a customer’s monthly electricity bill must …
A Philadelphia federal judge denied a Comcast Corp. call center employee’s bid for a class-action discrimination suit. The former employee, Wilbert Spencer Jr., says in the lawsuit that Comcast managers fired him for hanging up on a customer at the Newark, Del., call center after he lodged a discrimination complaint against his managers over a bad employee review. Comcast managers attempted to …