An injury lawsuit filed in a federal court in Los Angeles seeks
class action status on behalf of all keyless car drivers.
Not exact matches
On Tuesday, Uber filed to appeal the
class -
action status of its lawsuit, The Wall Street Journal reported.
In April, users filed a lawsuit seeking
class action status against Tidal that claimed the company misled its users about a Kanye West album being exclusively released
on the music service.
(
Class actions in Massachusetts and California challenging contract worker
status at some of the
on - demand companies may also alter the landscape.)
A lawyer for ride service Uber, which has been sued by drivers who contend they should be considered employees and are seeking
class action status, said it would be preferable to have a trial just
on the three drivers who filed the complaint in order to avoid setting a risky precedent.
In a new complaint seeking
class action status, two women — who are maintaining anonymity — are asking a court to force the $ 69 billion ride - hail company to change many of its driver screening and other practices
on behalf of all U.S. riders who were «subject to rape, sexual assault or gender - motivated violence or harassment by their Uber driver in the last four years.»
For example, in 1987 a
class action suit was filed against Jim and Tammy Bakker
on behalf of some 161,000 donors to the Bakker's PTL programs who had paid $ 1,000 each to become «lifetime partners,» a
status which included free accommodations at the PTL theme park.
«Our pre-K
class would be operated in partnership with Adirondack Community
Action Programs, and we're hoping to hear from the state by late October
on the
status of our application,» Osborne said.
A lawsuit filed in Dec and seeking
class -
action status alleges more than half the profiles
on Match.com are «inactive, fake or fraudulent.»
The suit, filed at U.S. District Court in Los Angeles
on Friday, seeks
class -
action status and alleges that because eHarmony has no matchmatching system, consumers are oftentimes hooked up with scam artists.
US NEWS - July 31 - A
class action suit against Successful Match alleges that the company broke the law and its promises of confidentiality to customers
on PositiveSingles.com by sharing their HIV and STD
statuses on «thousands» of spinoff sites, including HIVGayMen.com, STDHookup.com and Blackpoz.com.
In the Central District of California, attorneys filed a similar suit and asked the court to grant
class -
action status so other members impacted by the «nightmare» brought
on by hackers can see relief.
The lawsuit seeks
class -
action status on behalf of special - education students in the Yakima and Pasco school districts.
In May the Authors Guild and many other companies were granted
Class Action status and there seems to be no end in sight
on Google's ambitions to keep
on scanning books.
And
on Thursday, backed by a Chicago - based law firm, Gawronski filed suit (PDF) against Amazon in federal court, seeking
class -
action status.
Put simply, the door is now wide open for
class action lawsuits targeting credit counseling agencies — regardless of tax - exempt or nonprofit
status — based
on nothing more than the agencies» provision of DMP plans (that are incidental to the education and counseling provided by the agencies).
In this article, Judge Mulls Diversity of Law Firms (Houston Chronicle, 6/26/06), Joshua Freed reports that Minnesota federal magistrate Franklin Noel has asked those firms vying for lead counsel
status in a
class action against United Health to provide information
on how many women and minorities the firm employees.
While the study is currently
on hold and will only present one province's examination of its own
class action process, the findings and recommendations could influence practices nationwide, particularly given Ontario's
status as the most populous province.
For monitoring the
status of
class action lawsuits, the website of the law firm acting
on behalf of the plaintiffs will usually yield useful information.
The Calgary Herald and National Post report
on some of Steven Barrett's arguments in a proposed
class action involving the employment
status of players in the Western Hockey League.
The suit was filed
on behalf of Steve Tietze and others in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and is seeking
class action status.
Further information
on the
status of the
class action will be posted here as the matter proceeds.