A US federal appeals court upheld a multibillion-dollar settlement between BP and the coastal residents and businesses hit by the company's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. The British energy giant reached a $7.8 billion ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Facebook has been accused of intercepting private messages of its users to provide data to marketers, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in a federal court in California. The social networking company scanned plaintiffs' private ...
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The federal government is welcoming the Federal Court decision to strike down six of seven claims in a class action lawsuit over the end of the Canadian Wheat Board's single desk. Four prairie farmers - Andrew Dennis of Brookdale, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
A look back through our archives sees that DuPont, Dr Pepper, Post Holdings and Ralcorp Holdings, Kraft Foods and Dow Chemical Company have all had issues to address. General Mills is working to undo the impact of poor waste disposal more ...
Tags: Changing, environmental, issue, food, firm
Posted in Cardiovascular by Qmed Staff on November 19, 2013 The Sapien 3 could be used in a broader range of patients than earlier TAVR products introduced internationally. Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, CA) is in the news after The ...
The debate over unpaid overtime in the trucking industry is heating up, with a $100-million class action lawsuit launched against Canada Cartage. The law firm Lax O’Sullivan Scott Lisus LLP has launched the suit on behalf of workers ...
Tags: Canada, Cartage, $100-million, lawsuit
The Federal Trade Commision won a federal court ruling against Lights of America, while Intematix announces new green aluminate phosphor patents, and Veeco buys Synos to support OLED manufacturing. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ...
Six privacy groups have asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to strike down proposed changes to Facebook’s policies, as they violate a 2011 settlement with the agency over user privacy. “The changes will allow Facebook to ...
Facebook must pay out $20m (£13m) in damages following a lawsuit about targeted advertising breaching users' privacy, a US Judge has ruled. The case, first brought about in 2011, was based around the fact Facebook's "Sponsored ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
For centuries, trading with raw material has been an integral part of economic life. Stock exchanges started everywhere and eventually developed into the stock exchanges that exist today, dealing with shares, too. The first stock exchange ...
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Five U.S. privacy groups have opposed a proposed US$8.5 million settlement with Google in a class action lawsuit over search privacy, as it fails to require Google to change its business practices, they said. Google was sued in October ...
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Google has responded to complaints about its surreptitious snooping of users of Apple devices by claiming that it is not subject to UK privacy laws. The claim was made in a bid to get a lawsuit against the company, launched in the UK, ...
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Law firm Ryan & Maniskas has filed a class action lawsuit against officers and directors of Meadowbrook Insurance Group (MIG) for violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the ...
The owner of the Sears Hometown store here is spearheading a C$100 million class action lawsuit against Sears Canada and its U.S.-based parent, Sears Holdings, alleging the publicly held retailer "breached its legal obligations by depriving ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
The St. Louis-based grocery chain Schnuck Markets has claimed that a potential class action lawsuit filed against it in an Illinois state court over a recent data breach really belongs in federal court because of the case's scope and ...
Tags: Computer Products