LAWSUITS NEWS & LEGAL INFORMATION
Search Results for
Sort by relevance 122 pages found matching apple- 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... - Antitrust Heat Rises on Microsoft Buyout of Yahoo
Feb-4-08 Seattle, WA: An extended and heated battle is raging for Microsoft to garner the ability to purchase Yahoo, the famous Internet search engine. Although US and European antitrust regulators are putting Microsoft in the hot seat, it is doubtable that they will be able to stop the merger from taking place. It's possible the fight for the merger may plod al... - Shay Zvi Lahav fined $20,000 for marketing and selling fake Apple iPods
Atlanta, GA: (Jan-07-08) The Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs brought charges against Shay Zvi Lahav and his companies, alleging he violated the Fair Business Practices Act by settling phony Apple Inc. iPods. The companies named in the suit are Easy Sale 4U LLC doing business as iPod World and Accessories 2000 LLC. Sources stated that the fake iPod Na... - 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... - $10,000 settlement in wrongful termination lawsuit.
Maricopa County, AZ: (Dec-08-07) Cyndi Greening, longtime Mesa Community College media-arts director, brought charges against the Maricopa County Community College District, alleging that she had been wrongfully terminated. The suit stated that Greening received a termination letter in May 2007, in which the district accused her of double-enrolling stude... - Burst.com iPod Patent, Apple Inc. agrees to pay $10 million patent infringement settlement
San Francisco, CA: (Nov-21-07) Burst.com brought a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple Inc., alleging that it infringed patents that the two companies agreed to share. The lawsuit, filed in 2004, claimed that some of Burst.com's media patents formed the basis of the iPod. Apple launched a preemptive lawsuit against Burst in the District Court of Nort... - Risk Management Plans, Twenty-six Californian facilities pay $18,800 EPA fine for violating the Clean Air Act
Los Angeles, CA: (Nov-13-07) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought charges against 26 central California facilities, including facilities located in Fresno, Kings, Kern, Madera, and Tulare counties, alleging that they failed to resubmit risk management plans, a violation of the Clean Air Act. EPA officials claimed that when properly implemen... - Apple Ridge Apartments Rental Racial Discrimination Settlement
Washington, DC: (Aug-29-07) The Department of Justice brought charges against owners and operators of Apple Ridge Apartments (formerly known as Whispering Woods) in Livonia, MI, alleging that they discriminated against African Americans seeking to rent apartments at the complex. The Department of Justice lawsuit, which was handled jointly by attorneys from... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - California's Takin' Care of Business and Working (Unpaid) Overtime
May-11-07 San Francisco, CA "We're in a transition period, where a lot of companies assumed that they did not have to pay overtime and they're learning—sometimes the easy way and sometimes the hard way—that they do," states lawyer Cliff Palefsky over the phone from his law office in San Francisco. A member of the McGuinn, Hillsman and Palefsky law f... - Earth's Best baby food recalled due to botulism.
Some jars of Earth's Best baby food are being recalled due to clostridium botulinum. The affected jars are Organic 2 Apple Peach Barely Wholesome Breakfast baby food, manufactured by Bay Valley Foods. The recalled food is for babies 6 months or older, and is sold in 4.5 ounce glass jars, individually or in variety packs. The affected jars are: ... - Apple iPod Patent Infringement Settlement
Creative Technology accused the technology firm of infringing its patents in the iPod music player and navigation menu. Creative claimed Apple's software infringed patents on technology used to organize music on its Nomad and Zen media players. As part of the settlement, Apple will pay Creative $100 million to license a software patent for use in all it... - Records Show Dell Aware of Laptop Fires Years Before Recall
Aug-2-06 CRN recently reported that sources supposedly from within Dell Computer Corporation confirmed that the company kept quiet for at least two years before finally recalling 22,000 notebooks last year. According to CRN's sources, Dell knew of literally dozens of cases where laptops had burst into flames before they identified the issue as a broad ranging thre... - 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... - Apple Announces Recall of 128,000 Batteries for iBook and PowerBook G4 Computers
On May 20th, 2005 Apple Computer of Cupertino, California announced the recall of "about" 128,000 rechargeable batteries due to reports of an internal short which can cause the batteries to overheat, posing a fire hazard to consumers and users. Apple has received six reports worldwide of the batteries overheating, including two in the United State...