In Jinnaras v. Alfant, decided on May 5, 2015, the New York Court of Appeals rejected a proposed settlement of a shareholder class action, where the proposed settlement would have deprived out-of-state class members of a “cognizable property interest” by failing to provide a mechanism for class members residing outside of New York to opt out of the settlement. The Jinnaras …
A proposed class action against LendingClub Corporation is credit negative for asset-backed securities (ABS) backed by consumer loans originated through online platforms using a partner bank origination model, Moody’s Investors Service says in a new report. The lawsuit confirms that the owners of such loans face legal challenges over whether the loans are exempt from …
Napoli Shkolnik PLLC filed a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of New York on behalf of Hoosick Falls, New York residents Bryan and Kary Schrom against Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. (Saint-Gobain) and Honeywell International, Inc. (Honeywell). The Village of Hoosick Falls water crisis made headlines earlier in 2016 after …
The New York primary election fiasco appears like it is not going to abate anytime soon. As reported earlier by the Inquisitr, more than three million Independent voters — amounting to 27 percent of the electorate — were not allowed to cast their ballots in the New York primary held on April 19. The state’s closed primary system requires Independent voters to change their party affiliations six …
That’s where a district judge on Tuesday struck down a Hail Mary defense from Trump’s legal team in an attempt to prevent their client from facing trial in a lawsuit against his now defunct Trump University. The mogul faces a class action lawsuit in the state for his mid-2000s project which promised to make ordinary people experts in real estate, earn them tons of money, and provide expert …
Violence has become a routine part of life for many students in New York City schools. There’s ample data to prove it, but even more powerful are the stories of the students affected by this epidemic of violence — the 8-year-old boy who stabbed his ear with a pencil to block out his peers’ taunts, the 11-year-old girl who eats lunch in the bathroom to avoid her longtime bully and the 13-year-…
Listen, if we were given a choice, most of us would probably opt out of getting our periods for the majority of our lives. It can be painful, messy, and last but not least, expensive. Women spend upwards of $70 a year on products like tampons and pads.
The New York state senate is poised to eliminate New Yorkers’ so-called “tampon tax.” Feminine hygiene products are currently taxed as “luxury items” in New York, but a new bill could result in their reclassification as tax-exempt necessities, instead. The Republican-run senate passed the bill unanimously on Monday (April 11) after it had passed the state assembly in March, also with full …
Among women, the tampon tax hasn’t been very popular, to say the least. So today, five women in New York filed a class action lawsuit to fight the much-maligned tax.
The complaint argues that sales tax for tampons and sanitary pads violates state law, which declares that medical items shouldn’t be taxed. According to the complaint, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance “imposes a double standard when defining medical items for women and men,” since medical items also used by men — like Rogaine, foot powder, dandruff shampoo, ChapStick, facial wash, adult diapers, and incontinence pads — are tax-free. Tampons and pads, on the other hand, are exclusively used by women.
Is your job listing sexist? Five New York women are fighting to halt the state’s “Tampon Tax.” Margo Seibert, Jennifer Moore, Catherine O’Neil, Natalie Brasington, and Taja-Nia Henderson, filed a lawsuit Thursday against New York’s tax department and its commissioner, Jerry Boone.