The Gibson plaintiffs claimed that eXp negotiated the agreement with the Hooper plaintiffs after conducting prolonged, unsuccessful settlement negotiations with Intervenor Plaintiff counsel, conducting a reverse auction in an attempt to gain a sweetheart deal.
Roberts alleges that the girlfriend of David Golden, one of the men she has claimed sexually assaulted her, placed a pill in her mouth and told her it was Adderall. Instead, it was a drug that caused Roberts to black out. While Roberts said she doesn't remember the majority of what happened after blacking out, she said that through the testimony of others at the event, flashes of memory that came back to her and contextual clues, she concluded that she was raped by Golden and another former eXp agent Michael Bjorkman.
Costa's then-manager told him that ServiceNow would not pay this commission because the Sales Compensation Department had concluded that Costa had 'overachieved to a degree that was outside normal' in relation to his sales quota. In other words, ServiceNow believed Costa had made too much money, notwithstanding that his commission was only a small percentage of the revenue recognized and received by ServiceNow.
Following Setzer's death, for instance, his mother discovered that his last conversation had been with an AI chatbot styled after "Game of Thrones" character Daenerys Targaryen and had revolved around suicide. In his last messages to the bot, the Character.AI persona generated text asking Setzer to "please come home to me as soon as possible." "What if I told you I could come home right now?" Sewell replied. "...please do, my sweet king," the AI responded. Soon after, Setzer took his own life with his father's gun.
The suit alleged that since November 12, 2017, Google has been illegally collecting cellular data from phones purchased through carriers, even when apps were closed or location features were disabled. As reported by , the affected users believed Google using their data for marketing and product development meant it was guilty of "conversion." In US law, conversion occurs when one party takes the property of another with "the intent to deprive them of it" or "exert property rights over it."
eBay's Money Back Guarantee policy promises item delivery to the buyer not just their ZIP code. The guarantee only says the delivery must have the recipient's address, showing the zip code (or international equivalent) that matches the one on the order details page. It says nothing about only checking or verifying the ZIP code in a dispute. When you provided USPS's evidence, eBay owed you a human intervention. Federal Trade Commission rules against deceptive business practices require companies to honor advertised guarantees.
Tinder has brazenly announced and employed a multi-tiered pricing plan that treats consumers unequally based solely on their age. The lawsuit alleged that Tinder violated the Unruh Civil Rights Act through its discriminatory pricing structure for Tinder Plus and Tinder Gold memberships.
Google's pockets are about $200 million lighter than they were coming into this week after the company agreed to two separate settlements for two separate class action lawsuits that accused the company of violating user privacy. $135 million will be paid in a case that alleged Google collected user cellular data without permission, and $68 million will go to put to bed a case that claimed Google allowed its Google Assistant to record private conversations without permission.
In their motion to intervene, the Batton plaintiffs claim that Anywhere picked the most ineffectual class lawyers to negotiate a settlement with in the hope that the district court will approve a weak settlement that will preclude other claims against the defendant. The questionable settlement amount here further underscores Plaintiffs' counsel's inadequate representation of homebuyer claims against Anywhere.
Meta Platforms Inc. convinced a federal appeals court to certify a question about whether its terms of service and community standards created an obligation for the company to combat scam advertisements. Whether the terms of service and community standards impose a legally enforceable obligation on Meta is a question with substantial grounds for differing opinions, the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Thursday.
