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eHarmony Agrees to $1.28M Settlement, Ending Consumer Protection Lawsuit

- January 9, 2018

eHarmony, a popular dating website, was recently hit with a lawsuit that resulted in the popular dating website agreeing to a $1.28 million settlement. The consumer-protection lawsuit was filed by “four California counties, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Napa, and Shasta, along with the city of Santa Monica over its automatic-charging practices.” In addition to the $1.28, the company will also “pay $1 million in separate restitution to customers who were unknowingly enrolled into a subscription to the website between March 10, 2012, and Dec. 16, 2016.”

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Lawsuit Filed Against Iowa County After Wrongful Arrest and Two Month Jail Stay

- January 8, 2018

Earlier this week a lawsuit was filed against an Iowa county and prosecutor after an Arizona man “was arrested, transported cross-country and jailed for a robbery that he didn’t commit.” According to the lawsuit, the man, Joseph McBride, ended up spending “two months in custody after “authorities arrested him at his Phoenix apartment on Aug. 24.” McBride wasn’t the only one charged for the Jan. 1 home invasion “in his former hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa though.” In fact, he was one of three who was arrested, “even though he had proof he was 1,500 miles (2415 kilometers) away and investigators never spoke with him before his arrest.”

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Southwest Airlines Agrees to $15M Settlement, Ending Price Collusion Lawsuit

- January 6, 2018

A class-action lawsuit against Southwest Airline just came to a close, thanks to a federal judge approving a $15 million settlement. The lawsuit itself stemmed from accusations that Southwest, “along with three other airlines, conspired to limit the number of seats available to customers and keep ticket prices high.” According to the lawsuit the “conspiracy began in 2009,” and since then, “the cost of airfare with Southwest, American, Delta and United — which plaintiffs claimed collectively controls about 80 percent of domestic passenger seats — rose substantially compared to those of other domestic air carriers, despite stagnant or decreasing demand and declines in the cost of jet fuel.” As a result of the pricing conspiracy, the lawsuit accused Southwest and the other airlines of violating federal antitrust laws and said, “Passengers have been injured by paying higher airfares and facing reduced flight choices.”

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