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The high-profile NFL concussion suit , with the National Football League slated to pay $765 Parajumpers Long Bear Outlet million over a 20-year period. And although the numbers are being hailed as a good deal for the plaintiffs, reports are trickling out that the plaintiffs initially demanded a payout of around $2 billion. and have …
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Suit said automation system was contributing to spam Twitter has settled a lawsuit with TweetAdder, the Twitter automation system that Twitter has called among “the most aggressive tool providers and spammers.” TweetAdder allows users to schedule tweets, automate multiple Twitter accounts, and use keywords to find certain groups of Twitter users. The suit, filed in …
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Customers paid $9 a month but got nothing in return Ticketmaster has agreed to settle a suit alleging that customers who enrolled in the Cheap Converse Shoes ticket service’s “rewards” program shelled out $9 a month and got nothing in return. Judge Dale Fischer, of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, …
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Says settlement creates “divergence of interests” among class members The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out a settlement in a case alleging that three leading credit reporting companies had disseminated incorrect information about consumers who had declared bankruptcy. The suit, which originated as multiple actions in 2005 and 2006, alleged that , , and issued credit …
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It’s the final chapter of Antennagate settlement The Apple iPhone 4 has achieved its place in history as the last iPhone not spookily inhabited by Siri. But the phone was also responsible for one of 2010’s biggest tech scandals: “Antennagate.” Within days of the phone’s June 2010 release, users discovered that when the device was …
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Double outages in 2011 disrupted gamers A settlement has been proposed in a Canadian lawsuit focusing on hacks of Sony’s PlayStation Network (“PSN”) and Sony Computer Entertainment (“SOE”). The suit, filed in Cheap Converse Shoes May 2011, grew out of two apparent system hacks that potentially exposed gamers’ information. Lead plaintiff Natasha Maksimovic, a 21-year-old …