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Class action accuses kids clothes seller Janie and Jack of allegedly improperly sharing customer info with Adyen
The lawsuit asserts Adyen processes payments for Janie and Jack, but also stores customer information and uses it to assist with fraud prevention, allegedly in violation of California privacy law
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Those scammed blame Google for keeping gift card money
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - A class action lawsuit on behalf of victims of a gift card scam says Google wrongly kept their money.
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Class action accuses Wells Fargo of wrongly enrolling customers into ID Theft Prevention, other programs
Wells Fargo is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly enrolling customers into various financial products and services without their consent.
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California utility agrees to pay federal government $80 million to resolve wildfire litigation
Southern California Edison will pay $80 million to the federal government to compensate for firefighting costs and property damage resulting from a 2017 fire that charred more than 100,000 acres of National Forest lands in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
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Crown Labs accused of exposing customers to benzene from PanOxyl acne treatments
The lawsuit asserts the company didn't warn consumers that its benzoyl peroxide products allegedly degraded to benzene under normal use.
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Class action accuses Center for Employment Opportunities of allegedly shorting worker pay, other CA labor law violations
The lawsuit, from Alameda County Superior Court, asserts CEO allegedly failed to provide workers with meal and rest periods and didn't pay overtime wages, among other alleged violations.
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Enviro activists sue seafood sellers over 'organic' labeling
The lawsuit asserts that California law doesn't allow for seafood to be labeled 'organic' at this time
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Class action accuses Dignity Health over alleged refusal to reimburse managers' cell phone, home internet bills
The lawsuit asserts the alleged non-reimbursements amount to violations of California labor law.
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Class action accuses CNN of allegedly installing trackers on devices used to access its site
The lawsuit could ultimately include a class of hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of visitors to CNN's website, each of whom could demand $5,000 per alleged violation of a California privacy law.
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Lime bike and scooter rental app operators accused in class action of improperly dinging customer debit, credit cards
The lawsuit asserts Neutron Holdings has allegedly charged customers with unauthorized recurring fees, allegedly in violation of federal and California laws.
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Ex-Twitter execs sue Musk over severance they say he improperly denied after ousting them
Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and other former top Twitter executives say Musk has illegally withheld $200 million in severance benefits from them out of revenge
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San Francisco Juneteenth organization sues AAACC over allegedly withheld grant money owed to them
The lawsuit marks a low point in the relationship between the two organizations, which formerly partnered to produce San Francisco's Juneteenth celebration.
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Class action targets Rodan+Fields for allegedly misclassifying online sales consultants as independent contractors
The lawsuit claims the MLM skincare seller should be paying and treating its salesforce as employees, not MLM contractors.
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Musk sues Altman, OpenAI, in legal fight over future of AI now allegedly under Microsoft's control
The lawsuit asserts Altman and Microsoft teamed up to seize control of OpenAI, which Musk asserts is contractually bound to only develop AI tech that is open to the public and is "for the good of humanity."
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Workplace class action filed vs KQED by same lawyers, plaintiffs behind earlier PAGA suit
The lawsuit accuses KQED of allegedly failing to pay minimum wages and overtime wages, among other allegations.
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Airbnb says San Francisco city government wrongly keeping $921K in overpaid taxes
The lawsuit says the company overpaid in 2019 for three city taxes, but later sought a refund for overpayment. The city refused.
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Class action targets parking garage operators over license plate readers
The lawsuit asserts the use of the license plate readers violates parking garage users' privacy rights under California law.
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San Diego judge slashes 90% off $332M verdict awarded to man in Roundup trial
The judge said $325 million in punitive damages was excessive, compared to the $7 million in compensatory damages the jury awarded plaintiff Mike Dennis. The judge cut punitive damages to $21 million. Monsanto still plans to appeal
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'Butch lesbian' bartender says Red Lobster should pay for manager's alleged discrimination, retaliation
The lawsuit accuses Red Lobster of alleged wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation and harassment, among other allegations.
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CA Judicial Council says architects owe $3M for alleged deficient design at Siskiyou County courthouse
The lawsuit centers on alleged construction defects discovered after 2020 at the new courthouse in far northern California, which opened to the public in 2021.