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852Walmart Sued By JetBlue For Jetblack Name
To force the world’s biggest retailer to stop using the Jetblack name for its personal shopping service, JetBlue Airways has sued Walmart...
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693Huawei Sues US Over Detained Telecom Equipment
Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Commerce Department over telecommunications equipment. The lawsuit centers on whether...
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2.3KBrazil Bribery Charges Cost Walmart $282M
Walmart will pay a total of $282 million to settle with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission...
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830Expedia Sued By Nustay Over Antitrust Claims
Online travel booking startup Nustay has filed a complaint with the European Union’s antitrust regulator, the European Commission, accusing Expedia Group and...
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1.0KState AGs Sue To Block Sprint/T-Mobile Merger
Ten or more state attorneys general are reportedly gearing up to jointly file suit to block the $26 billion merger of Sprint...
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1.2KAirbnb Is Cooperating With A Subpoena From NYC
Airbnb is reportedly complying with a New York City subpoena that wants information about some of its listings, according to reports. The...
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2.6KWalmart, Wearables And The Murky Future For Marketplaces In India
While it might not look like much at first glance, an escalating legal spat between Walmart-owned, Indian eCommerce marketplace Flipkart and a...
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2.0KUS Judge: Facebook May Have Improperly Handled Data Breaches
Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights of the Delaware Chancery Court has ruled that there’s a “credible basis” to infer that Facebook may have...
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1.0KStudent Loan Scammer Settles With FTC For $11M
The leader of a student loan debt relief scheme has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) charges that he...
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1.8KFirst American Financial Customers Sue Over Data Breach
First American Financial Corp., the title insurance company that exposed the data on hundreds of millions of mortgages dating as far back...
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2.3KHuawei Files Motion To Toss Out Federal Ban
Huawei, the Chinese telecom company that landed on a blacklist in the U.S., has filed a motion in U.S. court aiming to...
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2.2KBank of Chicago CEO Indicted For Bribing Manafort
Stephen Calk, the founder of the Federal Savings Bank of Chicago, a mortgage lender and a former economic adviser to President Trump’s...
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1.5KCongress Supports Facial Recognition Regulation
Members of Congress supported a plan to draft legislation aimed at the use of facial recognition software by law enforcement on Wednesday...
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2.5KAllied Wallet Settles With FTC Over Fraudulent Payment Allegations
Payment company Allied Wallet and its owner, Ahmad Khawaja, as well as two officers, Mohammad Diab and Amy Rountree, have settled with...
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1.7KAmazon Prevails In Domain Name Fight With LATAM
Amazon has won a lengthy fight against eight Latin American countries for the provisional ability to use the .amazon domain name, according...
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1.9KLyft Gets Hit With Class-Action Investor Lawsuit
Lyft’s stock inched lower in trading Monday (May 20) after investors filed a class action lawsuit against the ride-hailing startup. According to...
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2.7KCFPB Sues Debt-Collection Agency Over Deception Allegations
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said Friday (May 17) that it has filed a lawsuit in federal court against a debt-collection agency...
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1.8KPew Blasts CFPB Payday Lending Proposal
As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) wades through the public comments about rules regarding payday lending, The Pew Charitable Trusts has...
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3.0KBattle Over Payday Lending Shifts To Public Comments
The battle over payday lending — specifically, how tough U.S. federal rule will be in governing the industry — is heating up as an...
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1.7KAutonomy’s Ex-CFO Gets Five Years For Accounting Fraud
The former CFO of Autonomy has been sentenced to five years in prison for accounting fraud. Sushovan Hussain was convicted on 16...
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4.0KSupremes Greenlight Consumer Apple App Store Lawsuit
Apple was dealt a blow on Monday (May 13) after the Supreme Court ruled that an antitrust lawsuit over its App Store...
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2.2KChinese National Charged In Anthem Data Breach
U.S. prosecutors have charged a Chinese national for his alleged involvement in the 2015 data breach at health insurance company Anthem, which...
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3.7KB2B Financing Firm FreightRover Reportedly Impacted By Celadon Fraud Scam
It hasn’t exactly been the best of times lately for FreightRover, at least not when it comes to legal drama and company...
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1.8KFormer Danske Chief Charged In Money Laundering Scandal
Danish prosecutors have charged the former chief executive of Danske Bank over his involvement in one of the world’s largest money laundering scandals....
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2.9KCFPB Sues Credit Repair Firms Over Upfront Fees
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed a lawsuit against a credit repair firm, its subsidiaries and associates for asking customers...
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2.1KCredit Union Sues Fiserv Over ‘Baffling’ Security Lapses
Bessemer System Federal Credit Union, a financial organization in Pennsylvania, is suing financial technology company Fiserv Solutions over what it calls rampant...
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2.7KFormer Heartland CEO Agrees To $250K SEC Fine
To settle charges of insider trading, the ex-chief executive of Heartland Payment Systems Inc. agreed to pay a civil fine of $250,628....
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6.0KZillow Sues Competitor Compass Over IP Theft
Zillow has filed two lawsuits against Compass, accusing its rival of stealing Seattle-based Zillow’s intellectual property, as well as hiring employees who violated...
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3.7KInvestors Sue Lyft Over Overhyped IPO
Lyft is being sued by some investors who say the company exaggerated its market position during its IPO in March, which they...
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3.5KApple’s Settlement With Qualcomm May Have Cost As Much As $6 Billion
The legal battle between Apple and Qualcomm is over, and UBS is estimating the iPhone maker paid Qualcomm in the neighborhood of...
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2.3KLampert Faces Suit From Sears Holdings Corp
In the wake of the retailer’s bankruptcy, Sears Holdings Corp. has filed a lawsuit against former CEO Eddie Lampert, along with ESL...
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3.5KMarket Regulator In Germany Files Complaint Alleging Wirecard Short Sale
A German markets regulator has filed a complaint with prosecutors alleging that shares of Wirecard were manipulated by someone who potentially had...
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4.5KUK Lawsuit Against Mastercard Gains Court Support
A consumer lawsuit against Mastercard in the U.K. got approval to move forward after a court reversed a ruling by the Competition...
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3.7KFTC Fines Avant $3.85M For Customer Deception
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Monday (April 15) a $3.85 million settlement with online lender Avant over a lawsuit alleging the firm...
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3.4KLaw Enforcement Use Of Google Search Warrants Increasing
Law enforcement agencies around the country are increasingly going after search warrants to obtain information from Google, based on the location data...
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2.8KCybercriminals Charged With Money Laundering, Wire Fraud
A federal jury has convicted two Romanian cybercriminals of infecting computers with malware in order to steal credit card and other information...
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4.0KCollege Admissions Scandal Now Alleges Money Laundering
Federal prosecutors have hit actress Lori Loughlin, her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and 14 other parents with additional charges related to the college...
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3.6KMoviePass Rival Sinemia Faces Complaints, Lawsuit
Sinemia, a subscription service similar to MoviePass, has been struggling with customer complaints and a class-action lawsuit over the way it treats...
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3.6KLyft Threatens To Sue Over Alleged Short Selling
Lyft is threatening to sue Morgan Stanley over allegations it supported short selling for investors subject to lock-up agreements. According to CNBC,...
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4.1KMoneyGram, Western Union Sued Over Downed Passenger Plane
Four financial institutions are being sued over suspected ties to terrorists who shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014, according to...
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5.5KCA Lawmakers: Crypto Can Solve Cannabis Payments Problem
Legalized cannabis has a huge cash payments problem – as in, operators have too much, given federal restrictions in the U.S. that...
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3.2KRobocalls Go Unpunished, Exposing Regulatory Gaps
For foes of robocalls, there came a bit of poetic justice in recent weeks, courtesy of John Oliver, host of the weekly...
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3.5KWirecard Files Suit Against FT Following Investigative News Reports
German financial and payments company Wirecard has filed a lawsuit against the Financial Times for a series of articles the news organization...
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4.1KMichael Avenatti Arrested For Bank, Wire Fraud
Attorney Michael Avenatti has been charged in two federal cases with wire and bank fraud, as well as allegedly attempting to extort...
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4.7KAs Biometrics Advances, Laws And Regulations Try To Catch Up
Biometrics are increasingly being relied upon to secure payments and commerce while making transactions more seamless for consumers, a trend that seems...
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6.0KSan Fran Mulls Cashless Store Ban — Including Amazon Go
San Francisco is considering following in the footsteps of New Jersey and Philadelphia and banning cashless stores, including Amazon Go, according to...
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3.8KLawsuit: Peloton Used 1,000+ Songs Illegally
The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is suing streaming exercise bike company Peloton, saying the service used upwards of 1,000 songs without...
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3.6KUS Supreme Court Sends Google Settlement Back To Lower Court For Review
A Google settlement with consumers is getting a second look after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a lower court should review the...
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5.2KMarch Madness: Next Big Chance For Legal Online Sports Betting
March Madness has a new flavor this year: legal online betting. The annual NCAA men’s Division 1 basketball tournament will attract an estimated...
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4.1KSupremes Take On ID Fraud, Undocumented Immigrants
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over states’ ability to prosecute illegal immigrants for identity theft if they use someone...
