Law
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A woman who sued Starbucks after she was burned by hot tea lost her lawsuit against the Seattle-based chain when a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge on Thursday said she hadn’t put forth any evidence showing her injuries were Starbucks’ fault… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A split Ninth Circuit panel published a decision Thursday reviving putative class action claims that Capital One checked credit histories without a valid reason under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, though one judge said the lead plaintiff hadn’t laid out a sufficiently plausible case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Former students who say they were defrauded by now-defunct, for-profit colleges can take on the U.S. Department of Education as a class in a suit alleging the agency is slow-rolling their loan forgiveness applications, a California federal judge ruled Wednesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced a deal on Wednesday aimed at resolving suits seeking to seize assets stolen from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad sovereign investment fund, with $15 million of the expected $700 million recovery being set aside to pay lawyers for a key suspect in the scandal… Read this piece in its entirety…
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Several Pizza Hut franchisees have agreed to pay $6 million to clear up allegations in Florida federal court that they breached the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by texting cellphone subscribers unsolicited advertisements after their friends passed on their numbers during a promotion… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 