Consumer Protection
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is leading a lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company Google, accusing the tech giants of allowing the spread of a scam that has fleeced Bitcoin investors by using Wozniak’s image to convince them to send cryptocurrency to online crooks… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Burger King has escaped a proposed class action claiming the fast-food chain misled vegan patrons into thinking its Impossible Whoppers are meat-free, with a Florida federal judge ruling Burger King “promised a non-meat patty and delivered”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal judge tossed a suit over an alleged defect in the air conditioning systems of recent model-year Honda Civics, saying the car buyers brought their proposed class action before seeing whether they could sort out the issue directly with Honda… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Ghirardelli Chocolate Co. dodged a second attempt at a lawsuit in California federal court alleging the sweets maker tricked consumers into thinking its cocoa-free white baking chips actually contained chocolate, with the judge saying the candy buyers undercut their own case by introducing a new consumer survey… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Technology industry behemoths including Amazon, Google and Microsoft are engaged in an “arms race” to develop facial recognition products that has involved stepping on the privacy rights of Illinois residents, according to a handful of lawsuits in California and Washington federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 