Litigation (Non-Arizona) Archives - Page 27 of 46

Exorcising Toyota’s Demons

Overlawyered’s Walter Olson has a great column today called “Exorcising Toyota’s Demons,” which is subtitled “Reviewing the history of tort-bar opportunism and media malfeasance should dispel the Great Toyota Panic of 2010.”

UC Must Refund $38 Million in Overcharges to Students

Los Angeles Times: “The University of California must refund about $38 million to professional degree students who were illegally charged fee increases after they started school in 2003, a Superior Court judge in San Francisco ruled Friday.”

Classmates.com’s Facebook Mimicking Prompts Privacy Suit

Threat Level: “The site set up to locate long lost pals, Classmates.com, has been hit with a class action privacy lawsuit. It alleges the company violated the law when it decided to make user profiles public to compete with Facebook. The suit says Classmates.com duped its paying customers in late January when it sent them an e-mail telling members they’d have to opt out of new Facebook and iPhone apps to keep their data private.”

Pledge of Allegiance in Schools Ruled Constitutional on Appeal

Bloomberg: “Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with its reference to God in public schools doesn’t violate the U.S. Constitution’s separation of church and state, a federal appeals court ruled. The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco disagreed with Michael Newdow, an atheist who sued a school district near Sacramento, California, challenging the use of the phrase “under God” in the pledge.”

See the court’s opinion.

Woman Sues Over Unwitting Appearance in ‘Couples Retreat’

New York Post: “A Manhattan woman [Irina Krupnik] whose picture was used as a sexual aid in the hit movie ‘Couples Retreat’ has filed a $10 million lawsuit over her inspiring — and unwitting — appearance in the Vince Vaughn flick.”