Bush Appointee Screws Vioxx Victims
With all the attention on Iraq, Gonzales, and even recently the troubles of Paul Wolfowitz over at the World Bank, here's a piece of news that really brings home the consequences of Bush's domestic...
View ArticleAttn:Cold War Veterans Exposed to Nuclear Weapons
Veterans exposed to nuclear weaponsUS GovernmentA class action lawsuit has been filed against the US Government for allegedly withholding payment of medical costs to Cold War veterans exposed to...
View ArticleCAFA And The Effort to Defang Consumer Law
Cross-posted from Tort Deformby Brian Wolfman, Director of Public Citizen Litigation GroupToday, I’m writing about the relationship between the so-called Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) and the attack...
View ArticleCA Ct: Nice Call for Disgruntled T-Mobile Customers
Cross Posted from TortDeform.com:How many of us have felt like we were in a bad, inescapable relationship with our cell phone company? So many times, I've sat on hold fuming, then labored to speak...
View ArticleWell, I Might Have Found Some Help
As some you have been reading NYEVE's diaries on the total abuse by Blue Cross towards it's policy holders, you'll have seen my comments once or twice & maybe even 1 of my diaries as well. My...
View ArticleClass Action Lawsuit against GCI! Join us!
I am one of five named plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.-- an organization started and run by folks from the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). As a longterm...
View ArticleClass Action Lawsuits Block Foreclosure
There may be some respite for Foreclosure victims. Some attorneys have filed class action law suits against certain Mortgage Originators. Recall from Bondads diary today, how Mortgage Lenders do not...
View ArticleBeating back bad initiatives--one at a time
With three elections scheduled for 2008 in California, we've seen a tidal wave of initiative offerings announced and plunked into the expensive signature gathering process. Most of these measures come...
View ArticleAgent Orange: Federal Court Sides Against Vietnam Vets, Vietnamese People
Even as the costs of the Iraq war pile up, the human costs of the Iraq war continue to ripple out. On Friday, a federal appeals court rejectedan effort by Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange to...
View ArticleRant: Calling All Lawyers
It seems that Joe, Blanche, Mary, and Bennie are hell bent on killing any chance of health reform. They know that even if they voted against the bill straight up or down, that it will pass. They...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Sunday - BP Sued as "Known Felon" - BP Catastrophe AUV #449
You are in the current Gulf Watchers BP Catastrophe - AUV #449. ROV #448 is here.Bookmark this link to find the latest Gulf Watchers diaries.Follow the Gulf Watchers tag on DK4 by going here and...
View ArticleWeekly Audit: Hostile Takeover Threat Spurs Concessions from Michigan Unions
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium bloggerMichigan's new Emergency Manager Law is already forcing major concessions from unions. The law gives the governor the power to declare a city insolvent...
View Article"Union" Busting SCOTUS Style
The Supreme Court today has handed corporations another major victory in their battle to screw individuals with impunity. In a 5-4 vote they have allowed corporations to force customers to use...
View ArticleKoch's - Sometimes Vilification is "Justice"fied
For over a week something has been sitting in the back of my brain needing to be said and it wasn’t until this morning that I realized what it was. It all comes from the publications that I read...
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Thomas rules that If you Outsource your Lies, you're not Liable
Imagine you had the greatest Wall Street Scam, since CDO's and Credit Default Swaps -- and all you needed were some slick flyers, to get customers in the door.Now imagine, you "outsource" -- er, I...
View ArticleClass Action Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court on Behalf of Occupy...
Attorneys from the Seattle law firm Keller/Rohrback have agreed to represent protesters who have been banned from state property by the Washington State Patrol during demonstrations at the state...
View ArticleThe Scam I Clicked On
On May 11, I clicked on an add for a free trial of a face cream product, you 'only pay the postage'. As it turned out there were two products for the trial and you had to sign up separately and pay...
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Independence Day Reprieve for Consumers Enrolled in Blue Shield Policies To...
Commissioner Dave Jones Sides With Consumers, Echoes Concerns Raised by Consumer Watchdog in Lawsuit Over the So-Called “Death Spiral”Santa Monica, CA – Consumer Watchdog praised Insurance Commissioner...
View ArticlePaypal changing rule on class action lawsuits
Preserve your right to sue in court...info below the squiggle...Help me out with ideas of where I should post this if you could....
View ArticleOur female Supreme Court Justices in action
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, just some dude interested in the Court who has boundless respect for our female Supreme Court Justices....Although many examples of Justices O'Connor and Ginsburg...
View ArticleFederal Judge Calls Out Debt Collection Attorneys Over Sham Class Settlements
This has been going on for years. When large debt buyers find out about widespread illegality within their company before they are actually sued for it, they do the following:1. Call up a friendly...
View ArticleSCOTUS ruling in Amex case continues night of the living dead
The latest ruling by the Supreme Court saying that merchants could not join in a class action against American Express may seem removed from most of our lives, and may appear to involve a...
View ArticleSchneiderman is suing Bank of America Corp, HSBC, for Foreclosure Illegalities
These are the thugs"scoff-laws" that our newly-formed Homeland Security apparatus, works so damn hard to protect, from the likes of peaceful protest marchers like OWS:New York Attorney General Eric...
View ArticleLet the Lawsuits begin
We do have Laws and Courts for a reason(s). Or at least we used to.And under that system we have certain rights to bring suit, when our rights have been infringed.So ... Let the Lawsuits begin:Group...
View ArticleLet 'em vote John. Class action suit?
I'm not a congressional procedure expert and don't even play one on the internet.It seems to me that the House has sent two or three bills over the to Senate. The Senate voted those down and sent their...
View ArticleVerdict Is In: California Courts Hellish
Isn't it funny when you totally agree with somebody, but for totally different reasons?The Washington D.C. based American Tort Reform Association, known as ATRA, released a report on Tuesday...
View ArticleChristie - The Lawsuits Begin
Well, and I didn't think there was room for another Christie diary todayShort and sweet, just like Christie's POTUS aspirations...
View ArticleNew Orleans Teachers Win Big Victory
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many things changed in New Orleans. Almost immediately after the storm, for example, the state fired all of the public school teachers, took over the district,...
View ArticleFederal Judge in Virginia OKs Class-Action Status Against Ban on Gay Marriage
It's true what they say about elections having consequences! Virginia now has a Democratic Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General, and good things are starting to happen. From Reuters:A...
View ArticleWhat Do you call "Temp Workers" who are "Permanently" stuck there -- in a...
What do you call "Temp Workers"who are "Permanently" stuck there -- in their 'temporary' situation?Well, the economy that has made it an art-form, in exactly how to exploit employees To The MAX --...
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McNeil Offers Apology
Photo credit: Michael Gorman, Chronicle HeraldOn Friday, October 10, 2014, in an historic ceremony in the Red Room of the Nova Scotia Legislature, Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil made good on his...
View ArticleEbola: First (?) lawsuit over Ebola; Texas outbreak over, almost no one notices
The first lawsuit that I'm aware of concerning the Ebola outbreak got its start recently. The last person who was being monitored for signs of Ebola, was officially released from quarantine today....
View ArticleBREAKING: Lawsuit Against Uber Granted Class Action Status
This. Is. Huge.Uber’s business model is on the rocks late Tuesday after a federal judge granted class-action status to a lawsuit targeting the company’s treatment of drivers as independent contractors....
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Lawsuit: Cops searched homes of poor blacks illegally without warrant,...
You read that right: No warrants, no probable cause. Imagine—you're eating dinner and, for no reason, police come barging in. When you protest, they threaten to arrest you—even though they are the...
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New Orleans is running a debtors' prison, new lawsuit claims
About 45 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in two separate cases that debtors' prisons were unconstitutional as a violation of the 14th Amendment. However, a new federal class-action lawsuit filed in...
View ArticleHouse GOP Votes to Bail out VW and Other Corporate Criminals
On Friday, the House passed the so-called Fairness in Class Action LitigationAct. And as is often the case, the bill actually has nothing to do with fairness, except for making the court system less...
View ArticleThe latest GOP effort to smear the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and...
House Republicans are holding a hearing Wednesday afternoon in their desperate search to undercut the entity that was created by Dodd-Frank to protect consumers from lenders: The Consumer Financial...
View ArticleGOP pushes bill inhibiting Americans from filing class-action lawsuits...
Donald Trump may have promised to put America first, but "Americans" apparently take a back seat to corporate interests. Trump's GOP colleagues on Capitol Hill are pushing a bill aimed at protecting...
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UPDATED State Dept. Out of Loop; EPA Minority Justice Head Quits - All TOO...
It’s all coming too fast and furious! I’m amazed that DC hasn’t imploded under all this news!! ;-( First, this breaking news that the State Dept. didn’t know the Mexican foreign minister was in...
View ArticleToday EpiPen's Mylan got hit with a class-action lawsuit for 'racketeering'...
Mylan pharmaceuticals has been under scrutiny for allegedly perpetrating a fraud in their misclassifications of the drugs they sell and the insanity with which they price gouge. The good news is they...
View ArticleLouisiana facing a class action lawsuit for not providing defendants adequate...
A collection of civil rights attorneys and a New York City law firm filed a class action lawsuit in February, hoping to change the racist and unconstitutional legal system in Louisiana.The Sixth and...
View ArticleWhile Democrats fight for consumers, Republicans fight for those trying to...
Who’s out there fighting for you? When you go to vote, and you have to choose between a Democrat and a Republican, ask yourself which one is going to fight harder for you. For essentially every...
View ArticleTarget to pay $3.7 million to settle suit alleging employment discrimination...
Target has agreed to reform its employment screening practices as part of a settlement resolving Equal Employment Opportunity Office complaints dating to 2006 and a potential class action suit. The...
View ArticleWorld Press Freedom Day: US Press Freedom Ranking Drops To 45th
May 3rd is World Press Freedom Day as declared by the United Nations.This year’s theme is “Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law”.Although this annual commemoration serves to...
View ArticleSo Gorsuch screwed us. What are our options?
By now we’ve all seen the bad news. Gorsuch, writing for a bitterly divided 5-4 majority, smashed a wrecking ball into employee rights today.So what do we do next? Pushing for legislation to undo this...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court workers' rights ruling already may hurt Chipotle workers in...
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made it clear in her thirty-page dissent for the recent Epic Systems v. Lewis decision: taking away workers’ rights to class-action lawsuits is bad news....
View ArticleCan Trump be personally sued for damages caused by his acting primarily for...
I am not a lawyer, and I do not know how the law would apply in this situation, if at all. However, it seems that since Trump is basically acting for his own benefit or out of personal spite, which he...
View ArticleSocial Media Paying the Piper
For brief descriptions of and links to recent posts, click here. For an inverse-chronological list with links to all posts after January 23, 2017, click here. For a subject-matter index to posts before...
View ArticleRobinhood stock app caves to hedge funds and sells out small investors amid...
After retail investors decided to play the game Wall Street has played for years, some online brokerage apps tried to take matters into their own hands. The popular stock trading app Robinhood blocked...
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