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This power in numbers provided by class action lawsuits gives a voice to speak up against powerful companies.

As accident lawyer Patrick Montoya explains in this video, seeking justice as a group through a class action lawsuit gives the victims enormous power.

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If allowed to proceed as a class action, the 2013 lawsuit could cover more than 160,000 California drivers and give plaintiffs leverage to negotiate a settlement.

One of those workers filed a class action lawsuit against the company in the bankruptcy court for violating the federal WARN Act, which requires larger companies to give 60 days advance notice of layoffs.

Late - night comics were given even more fodder when, in January 2011, a class - action lawsuit was filed that alleged the majority of what Taco Bell called «seasoned beef» was ingredients other than meat.

Investors claimed it involved insider information, giving the company's internal staff an advantage over them and leading to class - action lawsuits against the exchange.

Ex-Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and former Department Chief Joseph Esposito made false and misleading statements in sworn declarations they gave in a class - action lawsuit over NYPD summonses, the plaintiffs» lawyer...

More than twenty class action lawsuits charging the Educational Testing Service (ETS) with damaging 4,100 prospective teachers by erroneously giving them failing grades on its Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching (PLT) licensing exam (see Examiner, Fall 2004 and Spring - Summer 2004) have been consolidated in Federal District Court in Louisiana.

General Motors has already settled one huge class action lawsuit over Dex - Cool, I wouldn't give it a chance to ruin my engine cooling system, were I you.

If the appeal is granted by the Second Circuit, this would invalidate the class action lawsuit brought upon by the Authors Guild, effectively giving Google the win.

Finally, given that Amazon deceptively calls those download charges a «fee» — implying compensation for services rendered — the company may have crossed the line into fraud with the potential for a massive class - action lawsuit.

And while I think that some of the most egregious - to - retailers (you give up your right to sue or form class action lawsuits; comiXology has the right to use your service marks to promote their digital service; you're obligated to promote the service in - store to existing customers; there are some circumstances where you don't receive even a single penny until you sell well over 600 comics, and so on and so forth) sections of the current could certainly be made less egregious, I think the root core of the problem is that comiXology wants to be the retailer of digital, and not the distributor, and that's what we'll end up calling «irreconcilable differences» at the end of the day.

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The primary consumer protection problem areas that have given rise to the States» actions include: (1) unsubstantiated claims of consumer savings; (2) deceptive representations about the length of time necessary to complete a debt relief program; (3) misleading or failing to adequately inform consumers that they will be subject to continued collection efforts, including lawsuits, and that their account balances will increase due to extended nonpayment under the program; (4) deceptive disparagement of consumer credit counseling; (5) deceptive disparagement of bankruptcy as an alternative for debtors; (6) lack of screening and analysis to determine suitability of debt relief programs for individual debtors; (7) the collection of substantial up - front fees so the debt relief company gains even if it fails to perform; (8) lack of transparency and information for consumers as to payment of fees, status of accounts, and communications with creditors; (9) significant delays in active negotiation or engagement with creditors, coupled with prohibitions on direct consumer communications with creditors; and (10), in the case of debt settlement companies, basing savings claims (and settlement fees) not on the original account balance, but on the inflated amount due (including late fees and default rates of interest) at the time of settlement.

Almost two years after agreeing to pay $ 27M to California Lyft drivers in a class - action lawsuit settlement, and one year after a judge gave final approval of the settlement, Lyft is finally paying up.

Give me one good reason why someone should not file a class action lawsuit against EA for selling a defective product?

We're checking out a few news tidbits for the week: PlayStation 3 has been hacked Microsoft plagued by another class action lawsuit Nintendo giving their opinion of the -LSB-...]

Sony is being sued over a new clause in their Terms of Service agreement, which forced users to give up their ability to file a class action lawsuit if they continued to use PSN.

You hereby irrevocably and unconditionally RELEASE, WAIVE, AND FOREVER DISCHARGE AND COVENANT NOT TO SUE Ubisoft Entertainment S.A., and each of its past, present and future divisions, parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, predecessors, successors and assigns, together with all of their respective past, present and future employees, officers, shareholders, directors and agents, and those who give recommendations, directions, or instructions or engage in risk evaluation or loss control activities regarding the Campaign (all for the purposes herein referred to as «Released Parties») FROM ANY AND ALL LIABILITY TO YOU, your assigns, heirs, and next of kin FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS, CHARGES, LAWSUITS, DEBTS, DEFENSES, ACTIONS OR CAUSES OF ACTION, OBLIGATIONS, DAMAGES, LOSS OF SERVICE, COMPENSATION, PAIN AND SUFFERING, ATTORNEYS» FEES, AND COST AND EXPENSES OF SUIT, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, SUSPECTED OR UNSUSPECTED, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE PURCHASE, ACQUISITION, RENTAL, POSSESSION AND / OR USAGE, AND / OR THE INTENT TO PURCHASE, ACQUIRE, RENT, POSSESS AND / OR USE, THE ASSASSIN»S CREED UNITY VIDEO GAME AND / OR THE ASSASSIN»S CREED UNITY SEASON PASS ON ANY AND ALL PLATFORMS, AND / OR RELATED TO THE CAMPAIGN, WHETHER CAUSED BY THE NEGLIGENCE OF THE RELEASED PARTIES OR OTHERWISE.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

When a massive class - action lawsuit brought the toxic nature of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) to public light, DuPont set their sights on a safer replacement for the surfactant that was a key ingredient in Teflon, that which gives the non-stick to non-stick cookware and other sticky things.

Whatever the ultimate outcome of Tobey's lawsuit, the TSA's handling of his security - line actions certainly seems to have given his demonstration significantly more attention than it would have otherwise received.

So if you are wanting more information on discrimination class action lawsuits, give the team at Ketchmark and McCreight, P.C. a call.

In a victory sure to be hailed by professional baseball players everywhere, a Massachusetts judge is expected to give his approval today to a $ 10.65 million settlement of a class action lawsuit involving smokeless tobacco, the Boston Herald reports.

Nowadays, Marler says, it's common for him to handle the vast majority of cases in any given class action lawsuit relating to a food - poisoning outbreak.

Two Massachusetts plaintiffs were left with bad tastes in their mouths after the state Appeals Court refused to give class action status to their lawsuits against the manufacturer of Listerine mouthwash.

Fortunately for injury victims, the law gives them the right to file personal injury lawsuits against parties whose careless actions caused the injury.

Canada's top court earlier today dismissed a leave to appeal application in Quizno's Canada Restaurant Corp. v. 2038724 Ontario Ltd., giving a shot in the arm to a class action lawsuit filed by former restaurant franchisees who say they were overcharged for food and supplies.

(1) A death (2) that was caused by the defendant's wrongful or negligent conduct (3) giving rise to a specific cause of action the deceased could have pursued in a lawsuit had he or she not died from the conduct.

This weird Facebook ownership lawsuit brought by Paul Ceglia has been going on for a while now, but it's noteworthy how many lawyers have taken on the case and withdrawn — especially given that Facebook is now talking about bringing actions against prior attorneys for Ceglia based on failure to report evidence of fraud to the court.

GM gave the dealers just six days to obtain legal advice and sign the agreement when as a franchisor, the law required it to give them at least 14 days to mull over the deal, David Sterns told the court on the first day of the $ 750 - million class action lawsuit against GM.

Canada's other main submission was the argument that «things were different back then,» and given the knowledge at the time, it was not foreseeable that trans - racial foster and adoptive placements would cause such great harm.Chief Marcia Brown Martel, a member of the Temagami First Nations near Kirkland Lake Ontario, led the class - action lawsuit on behalf of approximately 16,000 Aboriginal children who were placed in non-Aboriginal adoptive and / or foster homes in Ontario between 1965 and 1983, and suffered the loss of their cultural identity.

A federal judge gave the green light Tuesday for California Uber drivers to proceed with their class action lawsuit suing the company for employee benefits.

In addition to giving readers summaries of the outcomes of various lawsuits, the blog publishes Seyfarth's Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report, which compiles vital information for corporate counsel about what companies can and should be doing to stay ahead of lawsuits.

As the computer industry scrambles to patch security vulnerabilities in their processor chips in the wake of revelations over «Meltdown» and «Spectre» security flaws, Intel Corp has this week been hit with a class action lawsuit in the US claiming that all Intel x86 - 64x core processors (CPUs) manufactured since at least 2008 suffer a security defect that renders them unfit for purpose, given that patching will «dramatically» reduce their performance.

Given the number of claims, claimants and damages involved, the class action is the appropriate method for fair and efficient adjudication of the case, the lawsuit states.

(There's probably a lawyer out there who sees a class - action products liability suit against YouTube by its users for YouTube failing to warn its users of this foreseeable danger of a lawsuit that gives outsiders access to users private information as part of discovery.)

You only have a certain period of time to bring a lawsuit after an accident or injury gives rise to what is known as a cause of action.

If the court does not authorize the class action, the representative can choose to give up the lawsuit (in which case the class members can always decide to launch their own proceedings individually) or it can appeal the ruling.

Force credit - reporting agencies like Equifax and TransUnion to give consumers free credit freezes, but also shield the agencies from certain class - action lawsuits and allow the firms to offer credit checks for mortgage applications.

Under ideal conditions, companies that do bad things with technology are shamed and embarrassed by bad press (norms); they face lawsuits and regulatory action (law); they lose customers and their share - price dips (markets); and then toolsmiths make add - ons for their product that allow us all to use them safely, without giving up our personal information, or being locked into their software store, or having to get repairs or consumables from the manufacturer at any price (code).

The filing arrives just days after the TSSB gave filed similar cease - and - desists over an overseas initial coin offering project called R2B Coin, as well as BitConnect, the cryptocurrency exchange and lending program that faced closure and a class action lawsuit after the TSSB's allegations.

In a new class action lawsuit, Nano developers are accused of giving unqualified recommendations to store Nano on Italian exchange Bitgrail.

It is unlikely that Coinbase will integrate Ripple this week, given that it is still dealing with class action lawsuits regarding insider trading allegations against Coinbase employees,» CCN reported.

Rosen also wrote a second whitepaper for employers who use third party background screening providers entitled «Common Ways Consumer Reporting Agencies are Sued Under the FCRA» that describes certain practices employers should keep in mind when choosing a CRA and describes issues that can give rise to FCRA class action lawsuits against CRAs in the area of background checks.

Employers need to carefully select a background screening firm that has an understanding of these regulatory complexities, especially given the increase in class action lawsuits and governmental investigations.

Once a partition action is filed by the real estate lawyer, the remaining owners of the real estate are formally served with notice of the partition lawsuit (they are served with a summons and a copy of the lawsuit) and they are given a set number of days to file their formal response to the partition request.

There's little evidence to suggest that class - action lawsuits actually stop the behavior they seek to punish, and there's plenty of evidence to show they give the lion's share of money to the lawyers who file them.»

The bank gave the tenant a notice of only three days, but it withdrew its eviction notice (unlawful detainer lawsuit) after the tenant filed a motion to dismiss the action in state court because of the alleged PTFA notice violation.

When Condo Boards take action that exceeds the authority given to the board of directors under the condominium documents, e.g, purchasing land, then the condo unit owners are forced to file a lawsuit to fight against having to pay the assessments that will be needed to fund the board's action.