If states and cities accept the settlement that took two years to reach, they would drop thousands of lawsuits against the companies and promise not to launch any future legal action against them, the Times said. The money from the companies would be used by communities for addiction treatment...
The cost of borrowing affects not just the issuance of new debt but the price of maintaining existing loans, and it matters because these higher costs could erode the “headroom”Ms Reevesleft herself in her budget. Headroom is a measure of how much slack she has against her self-imposed fi...
The state of New York will not participate in the settlement, and continues to seek a judgment against Teva. A New York jury found the company responsible for the state's opioid crisis in December.. U.S. states, cities and counties filed more than 3,000 ...
solicitors. Since the law was enacted, it has been updated to include legal violations in new formats, including text messages. The TCPA sets out the conditions under which a company can contact a customer, and lays out when customers can file claims against companies for unlawfully contacting ...
This whopper of a settlement was initially proposed in February—interestingly—just prior to the class action’s trial date. Neither Merck nor Schering-Plough admits any wrongdoing—why would they? The settlement will end claims against the companies for the vast majority of the class, except for...
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January 29, 2025byRichard J. Andreano JrinCFPB CFPB re-establishes regulatory sandbox, no-action letter programs
* Celebrity trial attorney Mark Geragos has filed a $100 million class-action lawsuit against rapper Ja Rule and entrepreneur Billy McFarland, the organizers of the ill-fated Fyre Festival, an event marked by “incompetence on an almost inconceivable scale.” In an interview with Variety, Gerag...
Among the specific claims against Think Finance — as well as its venture backers Sequoia Capital and Technology Crossover Ventures— are that they engaged in racketeering and the collection of unlawful debt. The payday lender is Plain Green, which calls itself a “tribal lending entity wholly ow...