by Carol Thompson When Cindy Cox, a disabled United States Navy Veteran, ordered an iPhone case from online store Accessory Outlet, she got much more than a case for her phone. She alleges she was bullied. Now, she is asking the court for a declaratory judgment...
by Carol Thompson Retail giant Wal-Mart has reached a settlement with New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman after his office launched an investigation into false advertising. The attorney general’s office investigated Wal-Mart’s advertising for...
(Story by Carol Thompson) For decades, Americans who have been wronged by corporations and large companies could bring a class-action lawsuit, pooling their resources to alleviate the cost of suing. The class-action lawsuit made it possible for the “little guys” to...
(Story by Carol Thompson) When a party loses an arbitration the arbitrator can award legal fees to the prevailing party but there’s no remedy for the plaintiff to learn if the fees are actually paid to the lawyer. As previously reported, a resident of California...
(Story by Carol Thompson) Before purchasing a new home, an Oregon woman hired a building inspector to check the house from top to bottom but when she moved in she had nothing but headaches, literally. “I felt sick. I had headaches, burning eyes and allergy...
