The deal, which requires sign-off from a judge, would pay 'all women who were sexually abused or trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein, or by any person who is connected to or otherwise associated with Jeffrey Epstein or any Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking venture, between June 30, 2008 and July 6, 2019, inclusive.'
The complaint argues that the platform's event contracts, which allow users to trade on outcomes including sports games, function the same way as banned wagers. According to the filing, consumers who lose money on those contracts are being harmed. Reynolds is seeking damages and restitution for a proposed class, along with a declaratory judgment and a jury trial. The Oregon case joins similar litigation already moving through courts elsewhere.
Two California investors are taking Crypto.com to federal court in Miami, Florida, accusing the company of running what they describe as a nationwide sports betting business under the cover of financial trading. The proposed class action, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, names North American Derivatives Exchange Inc., which operates as Crypto.com, along with Foris DAX Inc. The lawsuit claims users across the country have lost hundreds of millions of dollars through the platform's sports event contracts.
The financial campaigner James Daley has launched a 1.5bn class action lawsuit against Apple over its mobile phone wallet, claiming the US tech company blocked competition and charged hidden fees that ultimately harmed 50 million UK consumers. The lawsuit takes aim at Apple Pay, which they say has been the only contactless payment service available for iPhone users in Britain over the past decade.
Anyone with a New York billing address who canceled a digital Times subscription between January 19, 2018 and June 30, 2022 or a home delivery subscription between January 19, 2018 and August 9, 2023 qualifies for a $14 refund if they submit a claim form by March 3.
A Back Bay restaurant, which recently celebrated a Michelin nod, is facing a class action lawsuit from one of its bartenders and two servers who claim the restaurant shorts the tip pool and pays tips out to ineligible employees, including managers and dishwashers. La Padrona, an Italian restaurant which opened last year with chef and Jody Adams at the helm, earned a recommendation from Michelin for its inaugural year in Boston and has previously been recognized by The New York Times.
It is Which?'s belief that Apple, the second-largest public company in the world, has abused its position, stifling competition and ripping off millions of customers in the process,
The cases involve contracts bundling handsets with services. The contention is that customers who continued using the service after the minimum term ended were charged the same monthly fee, and not a SIM-only fee for continued use of the network. Plaintiff Justin Gutmann - understood to be a former executive at Citizens Advice - said he was seeking damages of more than £3 billion ($4 billion) as the "class representative" on behalf of millions of subscribers he claims were overcharged.
There's hardly ever such a thing as truly free money. We pay for everything, in some way: with labor, with time, with suffering. So getting a payment from a tech or social media settlement isn't exactly free - it's likely the company messed up in some way and it legitimately owes you that cash - but it certainly can feel like getting free money. And if you're already using the tech or platform, then you might as well get paid for the issue.
Kids watch a lot of YouTube. Google's keenly aware of that: It offers a version of the YouTube app that's explicitly made for children's content in YouTube Kids, and earlier this year, rolled out a controversial AI-based age estimation system to automatically flag accounts that may be used by minors. These measures are meant in part to help Google avoid legal trouble - like a 2019 class-action suit filed in California accusing Google and YouTube of violating privacy laws by collecting information about minors
"The class certification decision is one step toward finally getting justice for these young people," said Rachel Lederman, an attorney with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, which is representing five teenagers arrested that day.
Basically, all Facebook users who had an account on the social media platform between May 7th, 2007 and December 22nd, 2022 are entitled to the payout, as they're most likely affected by the data scandal. However, in order to receive payment, you must also assert your claim-which means you needed to join the class action and submit a claim before the August 25th, 2023 deadline.
"This decision misunderstands how our products work, and we will appeal it," Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said Thursday. "Our privacy tools give people control over their data, and when they turn off personalization, we honor that choice."
PubMatic Inc. hid from stockholders that its revenue tied to a top advertisement-buying partner was slipping as it shifted clients to a new platform, a proposed class action says. The class proposed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California lawsuit filed Wednesday would include those who acquired PubMatic securities from Feb. 27, 2025, through Aug. 11, 2025, then watched them decline in value.
