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Appeals Court Tosses Out Subway Footlong Sandwich Case

- August 27, 2017

After a teenager from Australia visited a local subway shop back in 2013, they measured their “footlong” sub because the size of it looked a bit suspicious. Upon measuring the sandwich, they discovered it was only 11 inches, and after posting an image of their sandwich on Facebook to inform family and friends of the false advertising, they proceeded to file a lawsuit against the sandwich shop. As many stories go in the Facebook era, the post went viral and prompted many others to file lawsuits against Subway until a “single class-action complaint” was filed.

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Settlement Reached Between Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, and MailOnline Over Photo Controversy

- August 26, 2017

A lawsuit between Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis and MailOnline, a British website, has been settled for an undisclosed amount. The lawsuit itself stemmed from “the publication of photos of their children” without their consent, and once the couple learned about the photos, they “took the website’s publisher, Associated Newspapers, to London’s High Court in July 2015 over two articles featuring their daughter, who was 1 at the time.”

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Family of Daniel McGuire Agrees to $9.5M Settlement in Wrongful Death Case

- August 24, 2017

A $9.5 million settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit originally filed by Gail-Jean and Doug McGuire, the parents of Daniel McGuire. The lawsuit itself was filed against Saini Trucking and Saini Brothers Trucking after McGuire was killed in a car accident when a “big-rig truck slammed into his car in traffic July 10, 2014, on Highway 17 near Bear Creek Road.”

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Settlement Reached in “Free Cruise” Robocall Lawsuit

- August 17, 2017

Between July 2009 and March 2014, many households across the country received calls from an unfamiliar number that turned out to be a pre-recorded message informing the homeowner that they qualified for a free cruise. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, it was, and given the fact that many people received multiple calls from the unfamiliar number, a class-action lawsuit was filed to bring an end to the robocalls. Fortunately for members of the lawsuit, a settlement was announced earlier this week. But who was responsible for the phone calls? Who filed the lawsuit?

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City of Baltimore Pays $98k to Settle Free Speech Lawsuit

- August 16, 2017

The city of Baltimore is set to pay out $98,000 to settle a free speech lawsuit filed by a “former deputy who sued Sheriff John W. Anderson for firing him after he spoke out about a raid that resulted in him getting shot.” The payment will be issued by Baltimore’s Board of Estimates, “which is controlled by Mayor Catherine Pugh.” The decision to settle was made when the former deputy, James Lane, agreed to drop the lawsuit if the payment was issued. It’s important to note that this latest payment is in addition to “a $160,000 settlement approved by the state’s Board of Public Works in January.”

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New Details Emerge Regarding “Pink Slime” Lawsuit Settlement

- August 15, 2017

ABC News and Beef Products Inc. finally reached a settlement over “an ABC News report about so-called pink slime, a once-common ingredient in ground beef.” The trial began earlier this month after Beef Products Inc claimed the news report “wreaked havoc on its business after it aired in 2012,” misleading viewers and causing “hundreds of layoffs.”

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Harvest Hill Farm Agrees to Settle Wrongful Death Lawsuit After Deadly Hayride Accident

- August 14, 2017

A settlement has been reached between the family of Cassidy Charette and the owner of Harvest Hill Farm in Mechanic Falls, bringing an end to the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family. The lawsuit itself was filed after 17-year-old Cassidy Charette “died in a hayride crash” on October 11, 2014. The tragic accident happened when the wagon on the hayride attraction “went out of control after a brake failure, killing the Oakland teenager and injuring more than 20 other people.” Additionally, investigations revealed that the 1979 Jeep used to haul the wagon also had many safety issues. So basically, the lawsuit was filed as a way to not only seek justice for their daughter’s death but to also hold the farm accountable for what happened.

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UPS Settles Disability Discrimination Lawsuit for $2M

- August 14, 2017

To settle a disability discrimination lawsuit, UPS has “agreed to pay a total of $2 million to nearly 90 current and former employees” across the country. The lawsuit was first filed on behalf of the employees by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) back in 2009, and alleged UPS had “violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it failed to provide employees with reasonable accommodations and maintained an ‘inflexible’ leave policy that automatically fired employees when they reached 12 months of leave, without an interactive process.”

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