Appearing before a Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday, a lawyer for the federal government’s labor watchdog said Uber can’t make drivers give up their rights to participate in class actions against their employer.
Read moreThe Massachusetts attorney general filed the nation’s first state-initiated lawsuit Tuesday against Equifax for the data breach that compromised the personal information of more than 143 million Americans, including 3 million Massachusettsans. On Wednesday meanwhile a group of small business owners brought their own federal class action in Atlanta, saying the high cost they pay for credit reports makes dealing with the breach a “double whammy.”
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Tuesday rejected a Californian’s bid to revive a class action challenging Amazon’s policy of compelling arbitration, citing a provision in the online retailer’s conditions of use.
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A federal judge refused to dismiss class-action claims that online photo service Shutterfly gathers and stores facial-geometry scans of people who have never uploaded digital images onto its website.
Read moreA class action filed in Chicago federal court claims that Pfizer misleads consumers with its maximum strength Robitussin, which the lawsuit says contains less cough suppressant and the same amount of expectorant as regular strength.
Read moreThree women filed a gender bias class action against Google on Thursday, claiming the technology titan pays them substantially less than men for performing similar work.
Read moreA federal judge granted Nike Retail Services summary judgment in an employees’ class action on Tuesday, finding the 19 seconds it takes departing employees to open their bags and pockets for inspection is not compensable.
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Shattering a class action lawsuit against Glassdoor Inc., a federal judge ruled that consumers must arbitrate claims that the job-hunting website exposes contact information for 600,000 users.
Read moreVerizon customers who accused an online ad company of using “zombie cookies” to collect personal data through their smartphones will have a second chance to sue the company as a class, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA week after Hurricane Harvey saturated Houston with historic rainfall and as neighborhoods in the western part of the city are still underwater, residents claim in a class action that governmental mismanagement of two dams is to blame for the flooding that’s forced them to evacuate their homes.
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A California man must amend his class action accusing Uber of spying on Lyft drivers to lure them away from its ride-hailing competitor, a federal magistrate ruled.
Read moreA federal judge indicated on Thursday that she will approve a preliminary settlement between Google and users whose email content was scanned for advertising purposes.
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Wells Fargo’s phony accounts scandal has widened to include another 1.4 million potentially unauthorized accounts opened in customers’ names between 2009 and 2016, the San Francisco-based bank said Thursday.
Read moreIn a federal class action, two South Carolinians claim they were partially blinded by watching the Great American Eclipse through defective Solar Eclipse Glasses they bought from Amazon.com.
Read moreCritics have long charged that Amazon uses deceptive listings to mislead consumers into believing they are receiving steep discounts, and a California man on Wednesday asked the Ninth Circuit to overturn a ruling that sent his class action against the alleged practice to arbitration.
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A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday revived claims brought by a former Hawaii inmate who says she was psychologically traumatized by forced sexual-shame therapy at a Hawaii correctional facility.
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