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RetailReal Estate Watch: Simon Property Group Unleashes The Lawyers
The gloves are off in the retail landlord leasing battle, with Simon Property Group now suing mall tenants who aren’t paying their...
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LegalCan College Students Get Their Tuition Money Back?
Education is doubtlessly a valuable commodity, which is likely why college students pay so much for it each year. The average college tuition...
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LegalClass-Action Lawsuits Demand Refunds From 25 Universities
As the coronavirus started sweeping across the U.S. in March, universities moved classrooms online and locked the doors. Many students, however, don’t...
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LegalAlmost 800 Lawsuits Over Deaths, Safety And Canceled Events Filed
More than 770 lawsuits are piling up against hospitals, nursing homes, gyms, airlines and cruise lines in the U.S. due to the...
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CoronavirusCoronavirus Refunds: Students Seek Refunds From NC Universities In Suits; Cardinals To Reimburse Fans For Tickets
The coronavirus pandemic is upsetting normal life the world over, and plenty of consumers want refunds on things they paid for but...
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CoronavirusUS Chamber Warns Of Virus Lawsuits In Businesses Reopening
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is looking forward to a time when the country’s businesses can reopen, but the organization worries that...
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FacebookBarr Questions Whether Facebook, Others Should Be Immune To Lawsuits
U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Wednesday he was unsure whether social media giants like Facebook and Google needed the immunity...
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LegalSmileDirectClub Offers Refunds To Silence Customer Complaints
SmileDirectClub, which specializes in straightening peoples’ teeth, is gaining a reputation for squashing any kind of negative press, The New York Times...
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LegalWawa C-Store Chain Sued Over Malware Attack
Multiple lawsuits seeking class action status have been filed in Philadelphia over a data breach at Wawa convenience stores, which affected 850...
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BitcoinBitcoin Daily: Firefox Bug Targets Crypto Owners; Bitcoin Inventor Claims Escalate
Australian Craig Wright, who has declared himself the inventor of bitcoin, believes that a series of lawsuits will help him prove that...
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Security & FraudLawmakers Hit A Wall In Creating National Privacy Law
Efforts from lawmakers in the U.S. to come up with a national privacy law have hit a wall, with Senators unable to...
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SubscriptionsSinemia Shuts Down US Operations Amid Lawsuits
Sinemia, the movie theater subscription service that tried to take a page from MoviePass, is shuttering U.S. operations. The company, which had...
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LegalZillow 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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LegalAs 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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AppleCourt Sides With Qualcomm In Apple Infringement Case
Apple was dealt a blow last week after a jury in federal court in San Diego sided with Qualcomm in their long-running...
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Digital PaymentsPayPal CEO Takes Stance On Hate Groups
PayPal Chief Executive Dan Schulman has opted to take a stance against groups promoting hate and laws that discriminate, even facing lawsuits...
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RegulationCalif Lawmakers Seek More Stringent Data Privacy Law
California lawmakers are looking to make their strictest-in-the-nation data privacy law even tougher. Last year, California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that provides...
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AuthenticationWhy Voice Authentication’s Doing Prison Time
What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. New technology often...
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IPOUber IPO Lowered To $90B
A new report says that Uber’s valuation when it goes public is likely to be $14 billion less than its most recent...
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AuthenticationRegulators Debate Consumer Ownership Of Digital ID
Biometrics promise to take a larger role in authentication security in 2019, helping to stop online fraud and bringing speed, efficiency and...
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AmazoneBay Sues Amazon For Allegedly Poaching Marketplace Sellers
It seems eBay.com is going after Amazon, filing a lawsuit Wednesday (October 17) in which it contends Amazon illegally stole sellers from...
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Sizzle/FizzleIPOs Sizzle Amid Stocks, While Ripple Gets Served
Sizzle IPOs: See a renaissance of sorts, topping $35 billion in 2018, amid the fastest pace in 20 years and among verticals...
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LegalWells Fargo Hit With Lawsuit Over Financing Fees
Wells Fargo is facing a new lawsuit, this time from the Texas jeweler J. Edwards Jewelry Distributing and the company’s president, John Silverman,...
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Security & FraudSome Equifax Victims Have Already Received Compensation
Among the more than 145 million U.S. consumers whose financial information was exposed in the Equifax hack, some have been able to...
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LegalVirtual Currency Case Could Determine CFTC’s Power Over Crypto
A case involving virtual currency My Big Coin could determine whether the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has the power to...
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AppleApple’s BatteryGate Replacement Could Hurt iPhone Sales
Apple’s move to offer replacement batteries for older iPhones at a discount could impact sales of its new iPhone 8 and iPhone...
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LegalUber Gets Sued Over Hack As SoftBank Weighs Price
More bad news for Uber: After revealing that it paid hackers $100,000 to keep quiet about stealing the personal information of 57...
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LegalWells Fargo Discloses Lawsuits Over Scandals
Wells Fargo, the embattled bank, disclosed in a regulatory filing that it is facing lawsuits over scandals in its auto lending and...
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CFPBPresident Trump Seals The Arbitration Deal
The White House announced that President Donald Trump signed a Congressional resolution allowing banks to block customers from filing class-action lawsuits. According...
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BusinessBlue Apron Lays Off 6 Percent Of Employees
Blue Apron, the struggling meal kit delivery service that has seen its share price decline close to 50 percent since its June...
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RidesharingDOJ Investigates More Allegations At Uber
Uber, the embattled ride-hailing company, is reportedly facing five or more criminal investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), two of...
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Security & FraudJudge Tells Wells Board, Execs They Can Be Sued
Wells Fargo’s current and former executives and directors have to face most of the lawsuits lodged against the company and its executives...
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CFPBStudent Loan Collection Draws CFPB Attention And Ire
The CFPB laid down some serious fines on National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts and its debt collector, Transworld Systems, Inc. The firms...
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AmazonAmazon Tracker: Where The Customers Are
Amazon is meeting its customers where they are. In the U.K., the eCommerce giant is letting shoppers load up their accounts using...
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RidesharingUber Drama Is Driving Execs Out
If you’ve been thinking lately, “You know who hasn’t seen enough drama this summer? Uber,” then you’re in luck. CNBC reports news that...
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NewsAs Dollar Tree Grows, Competitors Wither – And They’re Suing
So much for family ties. After merging with Family Dollar to create a 13,000-store behemoth in 2015, Dollar Tree has been accused...
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LegalWells Fargo Could Add $200M+ To Legal Bill
Wells Fargo is still facing heat from last year’s fraudulent accounts scandal, as lawsuits against the financial firm are reportedly piling up....
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BankingNew Bill Would Throw Out Wells Fargo Arbitration Clause
Wells Fargo customers got support from two Democrat lawmakers, who want consumers to be able to sue the bank in court over...
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NewsUS: Small Businesses Allowed To Sue Credit Card Giants Over Chip Readers
A judge is allowing small businesses to sue the major credit card companies for forcing them to adopt chip readers at the...
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And Now … The Brexit Lawsuits
Brexit lawsuits begin
- Retail
Why Amazon Is Suing Over An Exec That Jumped Ship To Target
There is a secret ingredient (or two) that goes into Amazon’s sauce (as it were), and apparently, the eCommerce giant is quite...
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NewsApple Faces Manufactured Obsolescence Lawsuit
Some unsatisfied customers have hit Apple with what is likely a largely unwanted late Christmas “gift.” The world’s most successful tech firm...
