A former New York prosecutor benefited from special treatment by a state agency, which unlawfully arranged during the past three or four years to cut his monthly student loan bill…
A process server who formerly worked as a Las Vegas police officer and an office manager for his company have been criminally charged concerning dozens of allegedly false filings in…
A federal judge in California has ruled that Wells Fargo must repay $203 million in excessive debit-card overdraft fees to customers who were charged, without adequate disclosure, in a manner…
Junk fees, corner-cutting and an indifference to human misery helped a Florida lawyer make a mint in a high-volume foreclosure practice, reports Mother Jones in an unflattering…
Left-out consumer advocates are complaining that the Federal Communications Commission has been conducting closed-door meetings since June with industry giants about proposed net neutrality rules.
A Washington, D.C., judge has lifted her own restraining order that had barred the National Law Journal from reporting that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating pomegranate juice maker POM…
A battle over whether a Florida homeowner could park his pickup in his own driveway racked up over $187,000 in legal bills for the unswerving owner by the time the…
The Harvard law professor who was appointed congressional overseer for the Troubled Asset Relief Program was outspoken about abusive lending practices even before her new positionJul 27, 2010 1:29 PM CDT
In an apparent effort to extend the frontiers of defamation law where cyberbullying is concerned, a New York law firm sued four former classmates of an Oceanside High School student…
Whether you saw it as the “horrendous cyber-assault” claimed by Levinson Axelrod or simply an ex-associate’s legitimate expression of opinion, however unflattering, about the New Jersey law firm that formerly…
New smart tags being added to jeans and underwear in Walmart stores will allow employees to assess when a size or color needs to be restocked with the wave of…
The West Coast chain of 99 Cents Only Stores is facing two lawsuits for raising the prices of its items to 99.99 cents, essentially making them cost $1.
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