A jury has ordered Equifax to pay an unprecedented eighteen million dollars to an Oregon woman who spent over two years trying to get her credit report corrected. After being denied for credit, the woman discovered inaccuracies in her credit report. As consumers are generally instructed to do, she contacted Equifax to have the information…
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According to its website, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was founded “to protect student-athletes.” Recently, however, six college football players became the first current athletes to join a lawsuit against the NCAA for its unauthorized use and profit of athletes’ identities in video games. The lawsuit, originally started by a group of former college…
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On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that Apple broke antitrust laws by conspiring with publishers to raise electronic book prices. Federal District Judge Denise Cote ruled that there was compelling evidence that Apple played a “central role” in a conspiracy to eliminate price competition and raise e-book prices. The court found that Apple’s conspiracy with…
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On Tuesday, June 4th the International Trade Commission (ITC) gave Samsung a win in its ongoing, multi-continent patent infringement battle with Apple, when it banned Apple from importing or selling AT&T versions of the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. Apple was also banned from importing or selling the first and second generations of its wildly…
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Apple Inc. has agreed to pay $53 million to settle a class-action suit associated with warranties for iPhones and iPods, according to lawyers representing plaintiffs in the litigation. In documents filed with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Tuesday, class-action attorneys said the money from Apple would be placed in…
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According to The Wall Street Journal, a federal appeals court recently said that Electronic Arts, Inc. (EA) can be sued by a former college football player who alleges that the video game designer stole his likeness for its NCAA football series. The 2-1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed…
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On Monday of this week, a federal jury returned a verdict finding that insurance giant State Farm Fire and Casualty Company (State Farm) shifted windstorm losses to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), a program administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), for one of its policyholders. The Associated Press is reporting on this…
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Even though a company’s employee stated the foundation repair it performed was the “worst” job he had seen, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of the company and against the homeowner in the recent case of Gonzales v. Southwest Olshan Foundation Repair Company, ___ S.W.3d ___ (Tex. 2013). In Olshan, the homeowner had initially…
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