Consumer Protection
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A group of mortgage borrowers on Friday won a bid to revive a set of class actions against lenders including Bank of America after the Fourth Circuit said their claims of an alleged kickback scheme weren’t time-barred because the plaintiffs say the companies had covered up the purported plot… Read this piece in its entirety…
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As recently promised, Facebook and Instagram are cracking down on fake social media engagement, lodging a suit in California federal court Thursday seeking $10 million from a New Zealand company and its owners for allegedly selling fake “likes” to Instagram users… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The federal government has won a suit brought by a military veteran alleging that staff at an Army hospital acted negligently when they failed to diagnose a stroke that later killed her husband, according to filings in Texas federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Two Tennessee-based environmental groups have asked the Supreme Court to decide whether the federal Clean Water Act applies to pollution introduced into navigable waters through groundwater systems, pointing out that the justices are already considering the same issue in another case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Two California mothers launched a proposed class action in Utah federal court on Friday alleging Owlet Baby Care Inc. misleadingly marketed a “Smart Sock” baby monitor that didn’t accurately track infants’ heartbeats or oxygen levels and sometimes burned their feet… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 