Tag: Lawsuits

LinkedIn Settles Lawsuit Over Massive Password Leak
LinkedIn has settled a class-action lawsuit filed shortly after the social network allowed over 6.5 million passwords to be exposed by Russian hackers in 2012. And apparently, Link...
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Sex Offender Wins £20,000 in Facebook Lawsuit
A convicted sex offender has won a lawsuit against Facebook and the creator of a page after he sued the company f...
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Revleap Wants Businesses Wronged By Yelp To Help Fund Its Legal Defense
As previously reported, Yelp recently filed a lawsuit against a company called Rev...
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Revleap: Yelp’s Allegations Completely False, Unsubstantiated
Last week, Yelp said it was "taking a stand against misleading 'reputation managem...
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Uber Sued by Woman Who Accused Driver of Rape in Delhi
In December, an Uber driver in India was arrested after a female passenger accused him of rape. Now, that passenger is suing Uber – in a US federal court. The woman, who is...
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Forever 21 Accused of Stealing Photoshop, Faces Lawsuit from Adobe
Adobe, makers of Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and more, is suing clothing retail...
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Feds Settle Facebook Impersonation Suit
The U.S. Justice Department is about to pay a New York woman $134,000 over investigative tactics it once described as "legitimate law enforcement". In October of 2014, the stor...
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Angelea Preston Sues Tyra Banks, CW over ‘ANTM’ Disqualification
The drama on America's Next Top Model is truly never-ending. Angelea Preston, a former participant in multiple cycles of the popular show, is suing Tyra Banks and the CW netwo...
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Max Baer Jr Sues CBS in ‘Jethro’s BBQ’ Squabble
Max Baer Jr. is accusing CBS of making a secret deal with a small BBQ restaurant chain to allow it to "capitalize upon and exploit virtually every element" of the series for which...
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Comcast Hotspot Lawsuit Alleges Company Broke the Law with Xfinity Public WiFi Initiative
A couple of Comcast customers are none too happy with the company's Xfinity WiFi hotspot initiative, and have filed a class-action...
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Uber Sued in Hometown, Accused of Misleading Users over Background Checks
Uber is under fire from more cities – now including the one in which it is headquartered. San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon says that Uber has made "false or mislead...
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Uber Facing Lawsuit from the City of Portland, Oregon
On-demand ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft often operate in legal grey areas, residing somewhere between illegal and kind-of legal – depending on the specific laws of the c...
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Netflix Faces Suit From Consumer Group In France
Netflix only launched in France in September, but it already has some trouble on its hands in the country. France's largest consumer defense organization, The Confederation for...
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Google Will Pay Damages Over Street View Cleavage
Google is going to have to pay a Montreal woman a couple thousand dollars because Street View happened to capture her cleavage. A Canadian judge...
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Proposition 46 Debate Heats Up in California
In November Californians will have the opportunity to significantly change medical malpractice law in their state. Proposition 46 would raise California's cap on non-economic da...
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