Deceptive Trade
Texas accuses Vickery-Young & Associates, Jamie W. Vickery, Amber Vickery, et al., all of Kentucky, of deceptive trade and abusive telemarketing, in Travis County Court.
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Deceptive Trade
A 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.
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A 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.
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A 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.
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New 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.”
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The 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 Sues the Weather Channel
Los 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.
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A 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.
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A 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 moreBernie Sanders Backers Battle DNC in 11th Circuit
A 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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The Texas attorney general accuses Mendoza Marketing, of Porter, Texas, in a federal complaint of having “placed millions of abusive telemarketing calls” to homes, offices and cellphones nationwide.
Read moreVideo Game Sharks
A superior court class action accuses Blizzard Entertainment of unfairly and deceptively tricking video gamers, “mainly … children, teenagers and young adults,” into buying “Packs” or “Loot Boxes” for real money while playing the games “Overwatch” and “Hearthstone.”
Read moreBogus Grants
The Federal Trade Commission accuse Hite Media Group, Premium Business Solutions and numerous other entities and people of bilking consumers of millions of dollars by deceptively marketing and selling bogus grants services.
Read moreFlorida AG Targets Purported Charity for Deceiving Donors
Florida’s attorney general claims in court that a Pompano Beach-based nonprofit is a charity in name only and spends almost all of the money it raises from the public on vendor and employee salaries.
Read moreJudge Refuses to Dismiss Class Action Against Candy Maker
A federal judge refused to throw out a class action accusing the maker of Mike and Ike and Hot Tamales of deceptively packing their candy boxes less than two-thirds full.
Read moreTexas Entrepreneur Blames Bad Tortilla Chips for Stroke
A Houston man says he had a stroke because a salt shaker, dirty napkin and rancid chips were found in tortilla-chip bags he supplied for promotional events, in a lawsuit claiming the chip maker damaged his food-distribution company’s reputation.
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Two-for-One Burger King Offer Packs a Wallop
In a whopper of a federal class action against Burger King, a patron says the chain padded its margins for a buy-one-get-one offer on its breakfast Crossan’wich.
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