#class-action

#class-action

A Back Bay restaurant, which recently celebrated a Michelin nod, is facing a class action lawsuit from one of its bartenders and two servers who claim the restaurant shorts the tip pool and pays tips out to ineligible employees, including managers and dishwashers. La Padrona, an Italian restaurant which opened last year with chef and Jody Adams at the helm, earned a recommendation from Michelin for its inaugural year in Boston and has previously been recognized by The New York Times.

It is Which?'s belief that Apple, the second-largest public company in the world, has abused its position, stifling competition and ripping off millions of customers in the process,

The cases involve contracts bundling handsets with services. The contention is that customers who continued using the service after the minimum term ended were charged the same monthly fee, and not a SIM-only fee for continued use of the network. Plaintiff Justin Gutmann - understood to be a former executive at Citizens Advice - said he was seeking damages of more than £3 billion ($4 billion) as the "class representative" on behalf of millions of subscribers he claims were overcharged.

There's hardly ever such a thing as truly free money. We pay for everything, in some way: with labor, with time, with suffering. So getting a payment from a tech or social media settlement isn't exactly free - it's likely the company messed up in some way and it legitimately owes you that cash - but it certainly can feel like getting free money. And if you're already using the tech or platform, then you might as well get paid for the issue.

Kids watch a lot of YouTube. Google's keenly aware of that: It offers a version of the YouTube app that's explicitly made for children's content in YouTube Kids, and earlier this year, rolled out a controversial AI-based age estimation system to automatically flag accounts that may be used by minors. These measures are meant in part to help Google avoid legal trouble - like a 2019 class-action suit filed in California accusing Google and YouTube of violating privacy laws by collecting information about minors

"The class certification decision is one step toward finally getting justice for these young people," said Rachel Lederman, an attorney with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, which is representing five teenagers arrested that day.

A federal judge has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to immediately improve conditions at a Manhattan detention site, siding with an Ocean County man who says he was held there in abusive conditions. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled Sept. 17 that ICE officials at 26 Federal Plaza likely violated detainees' constitutional rights and said the plaintiffs had shown a strong likelihood of success on their claims.

Basically, all Facebook users who had an account on the social media platform between May 7th, 2007 and December 22nd, 2022 are entitled to the payout, as they're most likely affected by the data scandal. However, in order to receive payment, you must also assert your claim-which means you needed to join the class action and submit a claim before the August 25th, 2023 deadline.

PubMatic Inc. hid from stockholders that its revenue tied to a top advertisement-buying partner was slipping as it shifted clients to a new platform, a proposed class action says. The class proposed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California lawsuit filed Wednesday would include those who acquired PubMatic securities from Feb. 27, 2025, through Aug. 11, 2025, then watched them decline in value.

"is a strong indication that a settlement has been reached."

Judge LaPlante's class action ruling encompasses over 150,000 infants annually facing the critical question of birthright citizenship, emphasizing rights protection against Trump's policy.

The proposed class action against TD Bank NA was dismissed because the lead plaintiff failed to prove his specific personal information was disclosed to Meta Platforms Inc.

Superior Court Justice Donald Bisson ruled that the class action can move forward, but limited it to Quebec residents because the case hinges on that province's consumer protection laws.

"Under the May 9 settlement agreement, Keurig does not admit wrongdoing, although it maintains that the claims against it have no merit and would have prevailed in court."

This brutality included beating and kicking prisoners; gouging eyes; grabbing testicles; smashing faces into the ground or wall; deploying Taser guns, pepper ball guns, and other chemical agents; and order K9s to menace and bite prisoners.

To qualify for a settlement payment from the 23andMe lawsuit, you must have been a US resident on Aug. 11, 2023, and experienced a hardship.