Class Action
Mining
Twelve residents of Belfair, Wash., sued Mason County in a federal class action, claiming it illegally “gifted a private company, Grump Ventures, LLC … with a valuable right to operate a 66.5-acre surface mine in a residential zone where mining is prohibited.
Read moreRICO Phone Rates
A 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.”
Read moreRansomware
A class action claims that Epiq Systems, a legal services specialist, suffered a ransomware attack that hit “the organization’s entire fleet of computers across its 80 global offices,” in Orange County Court, Calif.
Read morePortland Police
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action lawsuit against Portland, Oregon police on Sunday, claiming journalists and legal observers were targeted and attacked by officers while covering protests over the killing of George Floyd.
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Class Status Sought in Missouri Suit Over Public Defender Wait List
A lawyer for a group of indigent defendants challenging Missouri’s practice of putting them on a waiting list for a public defender urged a state judge Friday morning to let them sue as a class.
Read moreOccupy Seattle
Eleven businesses and three people sued Seattle in a federal class action, claiming its toleration of protesters occupying the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone is an unconstitutional taking and a nuisance that denied the plaintiffs due process.
Read moreConstitution
A class action against all 36 Oregon counties claims they unconstitutionally seize and sell property for “small, sometimes minuscule amounts” of unpaid real estate taxes and keep all of the money, including money that exceeds the amount of taxes owed, in Deschutes County Court.
Read moreSnake Oil
A federal class action claims that Reckitt Benckiser and RB Health US, based in Parsippany, N.J., unjustly profit by pushing their “Neuriva Original and Neuriva Plus, purported brain performance supplements” with false claims.
Read morePolice Violence
A federal class action accuses the Sacramento Police Department of unconstitutionally injuring peaceful civil rights demonstrators on the night of May 30-31 with gas canisters and rubber bullets.
Read moreGoogle & YouTube Accused of Racial Profiling
Several black content creators filed a federal class action Wednesday accusing YouTube and Google of using racial profiling in algorithms and artificial intelligence that filter and censor their video content so it reaches fewer viewers, similar to improper censorship of LGBTQ+ content creators the tech giants said was fixed years ago.
Read moreWages
An appeals court in California reversed a judgment in favor of Brand Energy Services in an employee’s class action suit for non-payment of wages. The employee claims he and other scaffold workers were not compensated for time spent each day waiting for and traveling in a company shuttle bus.
Read moreWalmart Class Action
A federal class action claims Walmart is illegally denying returns under its new “Covid-19 return policy.”
Read morePrivacy
A class action accuses Cleveland-based University Hospitals Health System of sending personally identifiable medical information to Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others, in Cuyahoga County Court.
Read moreChange.org
A federal class action accuses Change.org of soliciting donations online for petitions calling for social change in the wake of the George Floyd protests, but using the money “for the site’s overhead, and for its own profit.”
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