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  • Antitrust News: Google Faces New Challenges in Proposed Mergers
    Apr-10-10 Eau Claire, WI A US Senator is calling for increased scrutiny of the proposed merger between search engine giant Google and mobile advertiser AdMob, regarding their adherence to national antitrust laws . Wisconsin Democratic Senator Herb Kohl, chairman of the antitrust subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, claims that the merger would give...
  • Violations of Patent Law "Normal" in Today's High-Tech World
    Feb-22-10 Waterloo, ON As technology continues to evolve at a breathless pace, patent infringement claims and lawsuits have become a fairly normal occurrence. Consequently, two new patent infringement cases against Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM), a Canadian company, appear not to be rattling investors in the least. In fact, the Canadian Press (...
  • Bloomin' Apple Rockford Employee Gender Harassment Settlement
    Rockford, IL: (May-24-07) Former Applebee's employees filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the neighborhood grill and bar restaurant chain. The suit, originally filed by five employees, alleged that 14 women had been touched inappropriately and had to undergo harassment. It claimed the women were continually subjected to comments of a sexual nature fr...
  • Class Action Lawsuit Claims Beverage Distributor Violated New York Labor Law
    Feb-17-10 New York, NY In an effort to combat the plight of workers in the food processing industry in New York, a non-profit workers' rights organization has filed a class action suit against Beverage Plus, a delivery company, over alleged violations of New York labor law . The lawsuit charges that the distributor denied minimum wage and overtime pay to its d...
  • Horas extra de los programadores de computación
    Los empleados de la industria software y tecnologías informáticas podrían tener derecho al pago de horas extra... La ley federal y las normas de la mayoría de los estados exigen el pago de horas extra para aquellos empleados que trabajan más de 40 horas por semana, a menos que estén dentro de una de las exce...
  • Does a 40-Hour, Four-Day Workweek Constitute California Overtime?
    Feb-8-10 Apple Valley, CA Patrick used to work 50 hours a week with overtime pay, but then his employer started scheduling him 10 hours a day, four days a week—without overtime pay. Patrick wants to know if he's still entitled to California overtime . "I was hired by an employment agency as a journeyman electrician, paid by the hour," says Patrick. "The...
  • Hefty Fines for Antitrust Conspirators Fixing Prices of LCD Screens
    Sep-3-09 Washington, DC Antitrust laws and other provisions of the Antitrust Act governing alleged price fixing were thrust to the forefront of public conscience yet again with the announcement late last month of an agreement by Epson Imaging Device Corporation (Epson) to pay a $26 million criminal fine for its role in a price-fixing conspiracy involving the sa...
  • More E. Coli Outbreaks—What Can We Do About it?
    May-25-09 Washington, DC: As we enter the summer months, we will start to see an increase in E. coli outbreaks and more cases of foodborne illness . Most of those cases will be related to the consumption of contaminated hamburger. The first outbreak, which is currently ongoing on Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, has already claimed the life of a 7-year-old and s...
  • Paxil Birth Defects – The Never-Ending Vigil
    Mar-22-09 Springhill, FL Kristine's son was born without incident – a healthy baby boy. He is now 4 years old and was recently diagnosed with a condition that could kill him if his parent's aren't vigilant. It turns out he was born with this condition, and Kristine wonders if the Paxil she took while pregnant could have contributed – could it be a Paxil birth d...
  • Financial Elder Abuse "Despicable"
    Dec-28-08 Apple Valley, CA Linda F suspected for a while that her father was a victim of financial elder abuse. Unfortunately, she couldn't get her father to see what was going on. Like so many parents who are victims of financial abuse at the hands of a child, Linda's father did not want to believe his daughter, Linda's sister, could treat him so poorly. But she...
  • Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. DRAM Price Fixing Settlement
    The world's largest memory chipmaker and its subsidiary Samsung Semiconductor admitted to conspiring with rivals to set prices of dynamic random access memory sold to certain computer and server makers from April 1999 to June 2002. Samsung Electronics pleaded guilty to participating in a global price fixing conspiracy and agreed to pay a $300 million fi...
  • Commercial Contract Law: A Runaway Train in California
    Aug-10-08 Victorville, CA A commercial contract between the City of Victorville, in California and the developers of a planned hi-speed train has raised the hackles of an investment company that had recently purchased land near the project, with an eye for some development of its own. Niles LLC has filed a civil suit against Victorville, with the hope of invali...
  • Attorney Scott R. Shepherd on WhistleBlowers, Securities, and Consumer Class Action
    Apr-4-08 Philadelphia, PA: Scott R. Shepherd is a founding partner in Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller and Shah, LLC , a national law firm with offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Florida, Connecticut, and Wisconsin. A 1985 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Shepherd founded the firm in 1998. LawyersandSettlements (LAS): What are the main areas of y...
  • Did Heparin Kill My Wife?
    Mar-31-08 Minneapolis, MN Harold's wife was a shining light in her local community. Vibrant, involved, she was loved by everyone. But in 2004 she received news that she had breast cancer. After several rounds of chemotherapy, she contracted a lethal blood infection, for which the doctors could not determine a cause. On February 29, 2008 she died, at home, with her h...
  • Yamaha Rhino Leaves Man with Atrophied Leg Muscles
    Feb-20-08 Apple Valley, CA A five-minute ride on a Yamaha Rhino ended when it flipped over, crushing the leg of its passenger. Kevin, an athletic, fit construction manager, took a quick ride on a Yamaha Rhino on New Year's Eve, 2006. He had never been on a Rhino before, although he owned a quad himself. He thought it was cool that his friend had a Yamaha Rhino...
  • It's Happened Again: Largest Beef Recall in US History
    Feb-18-08 Chino, CA: In a recall of staggering proportions, the US Department of Agriculture announced Sunday that 143 million pounds of ground beef have been recalled , easily representing the largest meat recall in US history. The recall, being carried out by the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company based in Chino, California, easily dwarfs the huge Topps beef rec...
  • Retirement Rip-offs: Bad Investments Take Advantage of Good People
    Jan-4-08 Tampa, FL: The need for Americans to take good care of their own retirement investment strategy has given birth, not surprisingly, to the huge industry financial planning and investment industry—not to mention investment products that promise high returns and low risk. However, all to often things are not as they seem, and the tragedy of a senio...
  • Beef E.coli: From Farm to Table?
    Aug-1-07 Washington, DC What do we know about E coli and its relationship to beef? By all accounts, not enough to stop beef ecoli recalls. Yet another outbreak of the E coli O157:H7 strain has shown up, this time in Canada. On July 7, 2007 the CBC news reported that officials warned people not to eat certain fresh and frozen ground beef products sold at Canad...
  • Unfair Business: Are You Being Gouged?
    Jun-7-07 Sacramento, CA Doing good business, for most, has a lot to do with trust and reputation. The latter can take a lifetime to build up and mere seconds to destroy. Little wonder that so many business owners spend so much effort protecting a valued reputation. To be branded as someone who does unfair business they would find abhorrent. But some people don...
  • Medical Malpractice: Fear has its Price
    May-14-07 Miami, FL They're only human, after all. And like us, medical practitioners can have a bad day. A sleepless night, trouble with the kids, a bitter divorce. However, when someone in the medical community has a bad day, for whatever reason, it's often the patient that pays for it, in what is sometimes a lifelong struggle. And that could mean medical malprac...
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