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Modifications and Foreclosures in the News Again
STOP! Mortgage Servicers | November 12th 2009 by Coleen Martinez
Ok, we have lots of news on the modification/foreclosure realm today. First, I came across this article yesterday about mortgage modification programs. Alan Zibel for the AP wrote that Obama’s HAMP plan has started reaching “1 in 5 ho read more
New PR: Beating Back Bad Press With Google AdWords
Tech stories from all around the web - TechChuck | November 10th 2009
The New York Times reported on its front page in September that hoki, an unattractive sea creature best known as the primary ingredient in the Filet-O-Fish, is at risk of depletion. Naturally, the New Zealand companies that farm hoki by the metric to read more
Class action suit filed against Toyota over sudden acceleration c…
Give Used Cars | November 10th 2009 by rrivers888
Filed under: Government/Legal , Safety , Lexus , Toyota Following a statement from the DOT and NHTSA asserting that the unintended acceleration issue potentially involving millions of Toyota vehicles is “not closed,” McCuneWright, LLP, read more
Suit Claims KBR May Have Poisoned 100,000 People in Iraq
Little Alex in Wonderland | November 10th 2009 by Little Alex
KBR, Inc.—a recently former subsidiary of Halliburton and profiteer of the Iraq War, which is the largest non-union construction company in the U.S.—faces a class-action lawsuit claiming burning waste exposed 100,000 Iraqis and foreign tr read more
Women's Leadership in a Bad Economy
New Business Concept | November 9th 2009 by Calzro
Yesterday, I delivered a keynote speech for a Fortune 500 company that, in the mid-1990s, was slammed with a high-profile class-action lawsuit alleging discrimination against 45,000 female employees. The suit said the company denied them equal pay, m read more
Toyota for Sued For Faulty Accelorators
Orange County Personal Injury News | November 9th 2009 by Darius Honardoost
Two drivers in California have filed a class action suit against Toyota for a known defect in both Toyota and Lexus vehicles that has resulted in the loss of control of over 2,000 vehicles. So far, at least 16 people have died and over 240 people hav read more
PG&E refutes suit alleging price-gouging via smart meters
Carbon Free Economy | November 9th 2009
Pacific Gas & Electric’s smart metering headaches might have just gotten a lot worse. Already, the company has had to fend off accusations that its installation of smart meters hiked energy rates. Now Bakersfield, Calif. residents are suing read more
Toyota owners file class-action suit over unintended acceleration
Left Lane News | November 8th 2009
Amidst the recent 3.8 million vehicle recall by Toyota and a conflicting statement by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, there is a new development in regards to the “unintended acceleration” problem which involve read more
Intel, AOL and Microsoft email beta test program equals untold we…
Secrets of a Broken Mind | November 8th 2009 by Homer Ford
Here something that you might want to read it was on the news and as well all know, the news doesn’t lie!! Subject: FW: PLEEEEEASE PRETTY PLEASE READ THIS!!!! It was on the news!Dear friends, I bet you’re probably thinking, ‘oh, this must be a read more
A Specialist Unum Lawyer Can Help With Your Legal Issues
Criminal Justice Lawyer Information | November 8th 2009 by Alan
If someone decides to buy a disability insurance policy it is because they want to feel some level of confidence that if they should lose their job because of unforeseeable circumstances, they will be financially covered. Unfortunately, this was not read more
Lawsuit Claims Top iPhone Games Stole User Data
slashdot.org | November 8th 2009 by Anjalee
pdclarry writes "Storm8, a maker of some top iPhone games, allegedly stole users' mobile phone numbers, according to a lawsuit filed on November 4. The suit claims that best-selling games made by Storm8 contained secret code that bypassed safeguards read more
App Developer Sued for Stealing Customers’ iPhone Numbers
iPhone News Updated | November 7th 2009 by thanaads
Storm8, the developer of popular (but terrible) iPhone games like ‘Vampires Live’ and ‘iMobsters,’ has found itself on the wrong end of a potential class-action lawsuit. A lawsuit has been filed, on behalf of Washington resid read more
iPhone App Records Your Phone Number
Uber Gizmo, the Gadgets News Blog | November 7th 2009
Now here’s something you don’t see everyday regarding Apple’s iPhone. It seems that Storm8, the developer of iPhone games like “Vampires Live” and “iMobsters”, is going to be at the receiving end of a potent read more
Teens sue high school that punished them for racy Myspace pics
I have a title for this. | November 7th 2009 by Josh Fulton
The bigger story here: two teenage girls are still using Myspace.Wired:Two Indiana teenagers have sued their school district after they were punished for posting suggestive photos on MySpace.The girls, 10th-graders at Churubusco High School in Churub read more
PG&E – Gets Sued over SmartMeters
Praying for Peyton | November 6th 2009 by KenMalloy
PG&E – Gets Sued over SmartMeters This week a lawsuit was filed against PG&E over its “SmartMeters’ (It was filed in Kern County) It’s a pending class action lawsuit – filed on behalf of everyone who believes th read more
iPhone game developer sued for farming phone numbers
Symbian Watch | November 6th 2009
iPhone gaming can be hazardous to your privacy, apparently. A security hole in the iPhone OS allows someone with the right know-how to design an iPhone app to secretly learn an iPhone’s phone number. The problem is serious enough that iPhone ga read more
McDonald's, Burger King and other fast food chains accused of sel…
Health And Living | November 5th 2009 by Manmeet
McDonald’s Corp., Burger King Holdings Inc. and Friendly Ice Cream Corp. were accused in a lawsuit of selling chicken they know contains a chemical that can cause cancer even in small amounts. McDonald’s, the world’s biggest restaurant company read more
Calif. debt firm settles Pa. class-action suit – The Associated…
California Criminal Lawyer Blog | November 4th 2009 by gyi tsakalakis
Calif. debt firm settles Pa. class-action suitThe Associated PressPITTSBURGH — A California debt collection company has agreed to a $2.55 million judgment to settle a lawsuit brought by thousands of Pennsylvanians who …American Correctiv read more
Not just ranting, I actually did something and you can, too
Vegas Linda Lou | November 4th 2009 by Vegas Linda Lou
Hey, remember my rant last week about those lousy banks and credit card companies? As you know, Congress passed a law earlier this year that would put an end to their abusive tactics -- including raising interest rates on our card balances for no g read more
What’s Next: The Plaintiff’s Perspective – New Ruling Allow…
Bulletproof Blog | November 4th 2009
In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs' attorneys for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today we talk to Won Kim, name partner at Toronto’s Kim Orr Barristers P.C., beneficiary o read more
Attorney Soliciting Video Game Seizure Cases
GamePolitics | November 3rd 2009
A Syracuse attorney is taking on the case of a four-year-old boy who had a seizure while watching his brother play a video game on his PS2.The attorney, Michael P. Kenny, has taken Sony and Vivendi to court over the video game Spyro: Enter read more
Walmart Settles Wage and Hour Suit for $85 Million
models globe business jaiku sectors | November 2nd 2009 by hwitcombca
A judge has just approved yet another legal settlement for Walmart as part of the 63 cases they vowed to settle back in December of ‘08. It is not clear how many people will be effected in this particular class action suit, but it is clear that read more
Class Action Suit Filed in Hawaii to Declare Jones Act Unconstitu…
gCaptain's Maritime Expert's Blog | November 2nd 2009 by John
Dear gCaptain- As you know, in and around 1916, Senator Wesley Jones, then a Senator from the great state of Washington urged the adoption of what has commonly referred to as the Jones Act. There are two main “sides” to the Jones Act. First, as y read more
Latest Melbourne Cup betting action
Daily punting advice | November 1st 2009 by Simon Holt
At least one punter is confident Daffodil can improve for the Melbourne Cup. They've unloaded $20K on the result. Below is the Sportingbet release:PUNTERS UNLOAD ON DAFFODILBig money has arrived for AJC Oaks winner Daffodil to win the Melbourne Cup w read more
Online linking and ‘content kleptomaniacs’
Ares | November 1st 2009
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- It’s a move that’s “equivalent of a herd of donkeys filing a class action suit against the inventor of the wheel”. That’s how econsultancy.com summed up the fact news aggregator NewsNow read more
Wig Makers to Take Class Action against Agassi
Ulaca | November 1st 2009 by Ullie
I hear zey are going to hit you vif a hair suit. read more
WSJ Calls Out Bernstein Litowitz
Securities Class Action Report | October 31st 2009 by Andrew Gilman
Today's Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece entitled Pay to Play Torts: Pension middlemen get investigated; lawyers get a pass. The column echoes many of the concerns outlined in this blog. Click the quoted text for the full articl read more
New Study on Cy Pres Awards
Securities Class Action Report | October 30th 2009 by Andrew Gilman
Nathan Koppel at the WSJ Law Blog reported today on a recent Northwestern Law School study which concluded that cy pres awards are really just an: attempt to conceal “faux class actions,” which the study defines as a suit “where the ind read more
Michigan Medicaid-Dependents Denied Access to Dental Healthcare -…
Disabled World | October 30th 2009 by Ian
Class action lawsuit seeks to rectify State's refusal to fund essential dental care for developmentally disabled and financially limited individuals. The State is in violation of requirements under federal Social Security Act's Medicaid provisions, j read more
AT&T Slapped with Another iPhone MMS Class Action Suit
Symbian Watch | October 30th 2009
In the middle of August, AT&T (NYSE: T) was on the receiving end of a class action lawsuit in Louisiana for not enabling MMS on the iPhone as they said they would by the end of the summer. Even though it ended up arriving September, another suit read more
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