A federal class action claims Geeta B. Brown, of California, ran the fraudulent, for-profit InterCoast Colleges and InterCoast Career Institute as a sham licensed practical nursing program in Maine, preying particularly upon minority and immigrant students “to generate unlawful and inequitable profits through the manipulation of federally guaranteed student loan programs.”
Read moreA federal class action claims State Farm Auto Insurance has “a carefully developed strategy to make the victims [of auto accidents] look like they are trying to defraud the insurers,” one of whose factors is “whether the provider’s patients “are from an immigrant community.”
Read moreA federal class action claims Sephora USA shares private information with co-defendant The Retail Equation “to generate a consumer report and a ‘risk score’ for each of Sephora’s consumers … [which] is then used as a pretext to advise Sephora that attempted product returns and exchanges are fraudulent and abusive.”
Read moreThe Superior Court of San Francisco County denied Sutter Health’s request to delay final approval of a $575 million settlement in a class action antitrust case. The health care provider indicated that it “might oppose approval of the settlement depending on how future events” related to the ongoing pandemic unfold.
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It’s up to national courts to decide whether consumer contract clauses are legal when they fall outside of European Union laws, the EU’s highest court found Thursday.
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The European Union’s highest court ruled Thursday that Volkswagen must face a lawsuit over defective cars sold during the automaker’s emissions scandal in Austrian national court, even though it is based in Germany.
Read moreA federal judge in Detroit ruled Wednesday that sweetheart deals motor conglomerate Fiat Chrysler got from the United Auto Workers by bribing their leaders hurt workers first and competitors second, dismissing a suit brought against the company by General Motors.
Read moreCalling a trial court’s injunction too broad, the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday vacated an order prohibiting Indiana from enforcing a law banning the sale of smokable hemp products.
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WASHINGTON (CN) — U.S. regulators bungled a mandate for cigar and pipe tobacco packaging and advertising to include warnings similar
Read moreA class action claims CVS Pharmacy illegally forces customers with a prescription for an opioid “to simultaneously purchase a prescribed medication, Naloxone or similar drug, designed to rapidly reverse an opioid overdose … [which] can cost more than 50 times the actual opioid pain relief prescription,” in San Diego Superior Court.
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The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an exception for government debt collection in a federal ban on robocalls, though it declined the invitation of a group of political professionals to strike down the ban entirely.
Read moreL’eglise Properties, whose managing member is John Malkovich, sued Crane Builders of New Orleans, et al., in federal court, claiming they overbilled him for substandard work on a “large, historic structure” on Jackson Avenue, for which he already has paid them $5.3 million.
Read moreA coalition of landlords and realtors is fighting to overturn a San Francisco law that permanently bans the eviction of tenants who cannot pay rent due to Covid-19-related financial struggles.
Read moreA nationwide RICO class action in federal court claims that Global Tel*Link, Securus Technologies and 3CInteractive conspired “to fix inflated prices for calls between incarcerated individuals and their family members, friends, attorneys, and others, while also repeatedly lying to local governments and their own customers about the costs of those calls.”
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Limitations on when the president can remove the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are fundamentally incompatible with the Constitution, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Read moreCounty prosecutors can sue companies under unfair-competition law for conduct that occurred anywhere in California, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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