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
Evan Calarco of Total Tool Ltd., Castleton, N.Y., is the first ALI associate class member to be elected to the organization's board of directors. The Automotive Lift Institute (ALI) says its board of directors, which is historically ...
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A U.S. judge has put a stamp of approval on a US$20 million fund for Facebook to settle a class-action advertising suit, despite objections from groups representing minors on the site. The ruling was issued Monday in the U.S. District ...
Tags: Computer Products, webservice, software
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
A federal court in Chicago this week granted class action status to a lawsuit accusing comScore, one of the Internet's largest user tracking firms, of secretly collecting and selling Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords ...
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One day after the launch of its next generation mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8, Microsoft has released the SDK (software development kit) that will allow programmers to write applications for the new platform. Microsoft released ...
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A new set of terms and conditions has been sent to existing users of Microsoft's online services–including Hotmail,SkyDrive,Messenger,Bing,MSN and Office.com–that effectively prohibits a user from filing a class action lawsuit ...
Tags: new Microsoft terms and conditions, limit legal options, Microsoft