An appeals court in Texas ruled that a woman was properly awarded damages in her emotional distress and deceptive trade practices suit against a funeral home that allegedly buried her newborn daughter in a “food cooler wrapped closed with duct tape.” The woman believed her daughter would be buried in a traditional casket.
Read moreNebraska sued Pivot Concierge Health and Banyan Medical Systems, both of Omaha, for deceptive trade involving drive-through Covid-19 testing.
Read moreA Florida class action accuses Amazon.com of deceptive and unfair trade: price-gouging on hand sanitizers and toilet paper during the coronavirus pandemic, in Miami-Dade County Court.
Read moreThe FTC claims in a federal complaint that SLAC dba Student Loan Assistance Center dba Aspyre, Navloan and others deceptively and abusively take advance fees and falsely promise they can relieve students of debt.
Read moreA federal class action claims the 7.0 liter V8 engine in General Motors’ Chevrolet Corvette from 2006 until 2016 is prone to premature valve wear that causes engine failure.
Read moreA federal class action claims Starbucks, Quaker Oats and Mars unfairly and deceptively market chocolate products as sustainably and/or ethically sourced, though it is the product of child and slave labor in West Africa.
Read moreWashington state sued Reed Hein & Associates dba Timeshare Exit Team, Hein & Sons Industries, et al. in King County Court, claiming they “unfairly and deceptively contracted with more than 32,000 consumers looking to be rid of their unwanted timeshares and have collected millions of dollars in upfront fees from consumers in the process,” in which, despite their misrepresentations, they have no expertise.
Read moreTexas sued Nuensie Suku Oakley aka Nancy Oakley and her Thai Princess Organization Against Domestic Violence and Siam Real Estate dba Thai Princess Jewelry, claiming she uses outrageous false claims to take money for supposed charities that she refuses to name, in Bexar County Court.
Read moreFleetCor Technologies and its CEO Ronald Clarke claim, falsely, that consumers can save money on gas by using their “fuel cards,” the Federal Trade Commission claims in Atlanta Federal Court.
Read moreTexas accuses Vickery-Young & Associates, Jamie W. Vickery, Amber Vickery, et al., all of Kentucky, of deceptive trade and abusive telemarketing, in Travis County Court.
Read moreA class claims Nova Southeastern University cost students thousands of dollars by pushing “sham” health insurance from Student Educational Benefit Trust, which “did not process, let alone pay, students’ health insurance claims,” in Broward County Court.
Read moreA class action for deceptive trade claims Ocwen Loan Servicing and PHH Mortgage Corp. charged a homebuying couple for 14 needless property inspections, in Palm Beach County Court.
Read moreA Jane Doe law student claims, inter alia, that for-profit Florida Coastal Law School and its owner Infilaw applied for a federal loan in her name, though she “never requested or applied for such federal loan, and FCSL never informed her they requested or received federal funds that she would be obligated to repay,” in Duval County Court.
Read moreNew York City sued T-Mobile USA, MetroPCS New York et al. in New York County Supreme Court, claiming they sell used phones as new, charge for fake taxes and unasked-for services, enroll users in financing plans without consent and misrepresent a “30-day guarantee.”
Read moreThe California Supreme Court revived a request for class certification by people who say the inflatable pool they bought from Thrifty Payless featured misleading images on the box.
Read moreLos Angeles’ city attorney sued The Weather Channel on Thursday, claiming it fraudulently and deceptively uses its Weather Channel App “to amass its users’ private, personal geolocation data,” not, as advertised — “to provide them with ‘personalized local weather data’”— but to monetize the information by selling it to third parties.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a class action accusing ConAgra Foods of deceptively marketing its Parkay Spray by using artificially small serving sizes to claim servings contain zero calories and zero fat, though each bottle allegedly contains 832 calories and 93 grams of fat.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed with prejudice Loan Payment Administration LLC’s lawsuit against Marin County, which threatened to sue it for deceptive business practices in solicitation letters involving mortgage payments.
Read moreA group of Bernie Sanders supporters faced off against the Democratic National Committee before an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday, fighting to resurrect their claims that the committee shafted them by favoring Hillary Clinton over Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary.
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