A federal class action claims Bank of America unfairly charges full-time students a $12 monthly maintenance fee once they turn 24 years old if they do not deposit at least $250 a month and keep a $1,500 minimum daily balance.
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As TPC Group claim agents go door-to-door in neighborhoods surrounding its southeast Texas refinery, still smoldering from an explosion that engulfed it in flames last week, the fallout has landed the company in court. It is already facing six lawsuits.
Read moreA federal class action filed Wednesday claims that California has failed to carry out a package of reforms passed in 2017 that utilized parole consideration for those convicted of nonviolent crimes.
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Four million Facebook users who had personal data exposed in a September 2018 data breach can team up in a fight to make the social media giant submit to independent audits of its data security measures, a federal judge ruled Tuesday night.
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A federal judge on Thursday approved a settlement mandating most misdemeanor arrestees in Houston be released promptly from jail without paying bail, brushing off concerns of prosecutors and police that it will endanger public safety.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit ruled that the lower court properly dismissed several putative class actions stemming from the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight. The class members claim the boxers and others concealed Pacquiao’s preexisting injury and that they would not have purchased tickets to the event had they known about the injury.
Read moreAn attorney for one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate brokerage firms asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to keep in federal court a conspiracy and fraud class action accusing the company of selling nursing homes with invalid licenses.
Read moreNine women filed a federal class action against Reno, Nev., claiming it imposes unfair and unconstitutional restrictions upon female strippers, such as licensing fees, background checks and performance limits, but not upon men.
Read moreWeb Payroll Service filed a federal class action against Cachet Financial Services, and Financial Business Group Holdings, claiming their negligence allowed a payroll processor to abscond with $26 million from automated clearing house accounts.
Read moreA former New York inmate claims in a federal class action that two diagnostic companies issued drug tests that produced false positives, forcing her to be kept in the same cell for 11 straight days.
Read moreA debt collector did not break the law by using government seals and letterheads to get people who bounced checks to pay restitution and take classes, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, but the company may have charged illegal fees.
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Attorneys for one of the country’s largest pet store chains asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to reject a class action claiming the company knowingly sells sick dogs and cats to customers at inflated prices.
Read moreA class action against MasterCorp claims Lawrence Welk Resorts in Escondido, Calif., deducts 30 minutes from employees’ paychecks for a meal break it does not really give them, in superior court.
Read moreA Mississippi district attorney who prosecuted a black man six times for the same crime is facing a class action lawsuit that claims he has carried out a 27-year-old pattern of racial discrimination in the jury selection process by excluding black citizens from serving as jurors.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Wal-Mart of selling Great Value-brand LED light bulbs with the Energy-Star logo though they do not meet Energy-Star efficiency standards.
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