BusinessLitigation
If you’re swiping on dating apps for hours, you’re not alone — and a new lawsuit claims it’s by design. Dating apps such as Tinder and Hinge are intentionally addictive, a class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in California on Valentine’s Day claims. Hidden algorithms push users to stay on the apps and “gamify dating” — counterintuitive to the apps’ intended purpose to help people find connections and form relationships, six plaintiffs contend in the lawsuit. “The truth is the apps are designed to be addictive,” according to the filing. “Match’s business model depends on generating retur...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Seattle-based parent company behind the viral Stanley tumbler faces more lawsuits accusing it of intentionally misleading consumers about the presence of lead in its products. Two separate lawsuits filed last week accuse Stanley, which was acquired by Seattle-based PMI Worldwide in 2002, of deceiving customers and failing to disclose the presence of lead in its products, most notably its viral Quencher tumblers. Both class-action complaints were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. In January, the company informed its millions of consumers who bought a Q...
The Seattle Times
ST. LOUIS — Build-A-Bear Workshop is demanding a jury trial after being served a lawsuit claiming the St. Louis toy manufacturer’s latest plush line, Skoosherz, is too similar to stuffed toy brand Squishmallows. Last month, Squishmallows’ parent company, California-based Kelly Toys Holdings and its affiliated companies, sued Build-A-Bear and other plush toy retailers over alleged infringement of its trade dress rights, which protect a product’s appearance, shape, labeling, color and design. Build-A-Bear filed a responding lawsuit Monday, asking the court to declare that Squishmallows’ trade dr...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
One of Costco's newest offerings, Kirkland Signature-brand golf clubs, has landed the Issaquah, Washington-based retailer in legal trouble. In a patent infringement lawsuit filed last month, Carlsbad, California-based golf equipment company TaylorMade alleged Costco's sold-out $499.99 Kirkland Signature clubs are identical to its $1,399 P790 irons. Costco began selling Kirkland Signature clubs in December. According to the lawsuit, Costco's manufacturers had a team that included a former TaylorMade engineer who had worked at the company during the development of P790, which launched in 2017. C...
The Seattle Times
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two months after Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies fired 10 shots at a woman accused of trying to run over a deputy with a Dodge Challenger, a lawsuit seeking more than $1 million claims the deputies and the Sheriff’s Office spokesman provided false information on the incident to justify the use of deadly force during the confrontation. The federal civil rights lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses deputies working as Rancho Cordova police officers of excessive force during a Nov. 20 incident involving 24-year-old Kyrieanna Liles, who was wounded in the shoulder after two deput...
The Sacramento Bee
PHILADELPHIA -- Nicole Junior and Chanel Glover were ready to be mothers, so the same month as their wedding, they began pursuing IVF. The two decided early on that Glover would be the one to become pregnant. Junior didn’t care about having a genetic connection — either way, she figured, the baby would be theirs. Still, she was unexpectedly thrilled when she and her wife were able to find a sperm donor who shared some of her features. “We felt like we would be able to see my face in our child,” Junior, now 43, said. She and the donor both traced their ancestry to Benin and he was even a Sagitt...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Soap opera star Arianne Zucker has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the producers of “Days of Our Lives.” Zucker’s suit claims former co-executive producer Albert Alarr sexually harassed her and other women who worked on the show, according to TMZ. Corday Production Inc. and executive producer Ken Corday are also named in the suit. Zucker claims Alarr subjected her to nonconsensual touching and made sexually harassing comments to her and others during his employment. He also allegedly told male co-stars he would “love to switch positions” with them while filming sex scenes with Zucker...
New York Daily News
In the months since the Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon over allegations of anti-competitive and monopolistic behavior, the two parties have debated the schedule, the scope and the rationale of the case itself. Amazon asked a federal judge in Seattle to dismiss the case in December, arguing the business practices in question have lowered prices for consumers and are common across the retail industry. Amazon described the FTC's lawsuit as an "attack" and an "effort to hobble one of America's most consumer-focused businesses." The FTC responded Tuesday, asking U.S. District Judge John Chun ...
The Seattle Times
Minnesota can add ethnic studies standard in schools, judge rulesThe Minnesota Department of Education may include an ethnic studies component in its revised social studies standards, after a ruling Tuesday settled a long-running debate over whether the agency has the authority to do so. But there's a caveat. Chief Judge Jenny Starr co-signed the decision by Administrative Law Judge Eric Lipman, who ruled on Tuesday that MDE may adopt the new ethnic studies standard but must also rewrite what he called an "impermissibly vague" rule. The Education Department "has the statutory authority to adop...
Tribune News Service
In a lawsuit filed last month, Crystal Kemp, a Jehovah’s Witness, alleged that her employer, SEPTA, the regional transit authority based in Philadelphia, refused to adjust her schedule so she could attend religious meetings on Sunday mornings and Tuesday evenings. She alleges she was ultimately terminated for refusing to work during those times. A former employee of Tastykake in South Philadelphia, James Lynch, sued the company in November. A Muslim and African American employee, he alleges that he faced racial and religious discrimination at work, and that he was “was forced to pray in a jani...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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