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Wells Fargo is the defendant in a lawsuit in which a homeowner is alleging that the bank improperly charged thousands of customers across the nation to lock in interest rates when there was a delay in their mortgage applications. The lawsuit, Muniz v. Wells Fargo & Co., U.S. District Court, California Northern District, No. 17-cv-4995,…
The answer to this perennial question is that one side typically loses more than it bargained for and the other, depending on the industry involved, may be far better off than the state or city that offered various tax incentives. It appears that the art of a deal, when it comes to tax incentives, rests…
A District of Columbia Superior Court judge has delivered Facebook warrants seeking “all contents of communications, identifying information, and other records” for three accounts. The warrants were accompanied by an NDO (non-disclosure order), preventing Facebook from disclosing the existence of the warrants before producing the documents and information requested. Facebook is gearing up for a…
A Florida law targeting injured undocumented workers is set to undergo legislative review. Employers and insurance companies have been criticized for using the law to get such workers arrested, and even deported, in order to avoid paying workers’ compensation benefits. The law came into the spotlight following an investigation by ProPublica and NPR to evaluate…
A federal judge ruled last Thursday that a Los Angeles-based hosting company must provide prosecutors with digital data from a website used to organize protests against Donald Trump’s inauguration in January. D.C. Superior Court Chief Judge Robert E. Morin ordered DreamHost to comply with a federal warrant requiring it to hand over records, including email…
The Massachusetts Superior Court ruled that a woman who was fired for testing positive for marijuana usage can sue her employer for handicap discrimination. Christina Barbuto, who had a doctor’s prescription for medical marijuana, which is legal in Massachusetts, was fired on her first day of work for testing positive for the drug. Barbuto alleged…
Wisconsin is the latest state to offer huge tax breaks to a company promising jobs, but such deals have a spotty track record. Wisconsin is offering a massive incentive package to Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics firm known for building Apple’s iPhones. In exchange for $3 billion in taxpayer-funded incentives, Foxconn plans to invest $10 billion…
In recent years, flights by American Airlines, United Airlines, and others have experienced severe turbulence resulting in injuries. Researchers at the University of Reading in the UK recently released a study that predicts a significant increase in turbulence as a result of climate change.
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