Consumer Protection
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Fiat Chrysler on Friday lost a bid to decertify a class of drivers suing the company over alleged clutch defects in 2013-2015 Dodge Dart cars when a California federal judge ruled that the automaker’s concerns could be addressed later in the class action process… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California man who bought a 15-inch MacBook Pro laptop from Apple Inc. hit the company with a proposed class action in federal court on Wednesday, claiming the Silicon Valley stalwart hid defects with the display on that computer model and hasn’t honored its warranty promises… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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California’s attorney general announced a lawsuit Monday targeting oil trading companies Vitol Inc. and SK Trading International Co. Ltd. with allegations they colluded to rig the state’s gas market in order to profit while drivers paid higher prices at the pump… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Seventh Circuit judge split with two of his colleagues in a case accusing JPMorgan Chase of breaking a promise to modify a homeowner’s mortgage in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown, calling the bank an “intransigent” participant in post-crisis government aid programs… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A pair of Eleventh Circuit judges tore into their colleagues’ decision Monday to deny a rehearing to a Florida city whose dismissed lawsuit accused Wells Fargo of discriminatory lending, saying the city should have been given more opportunity to prove its standing to bring the case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 