TL;DR:A nationwide class action lawsuit accuses Trader Joe’s of selling “100% Juice” Organic Freezer Pops that are heavily diluted with water, made largely from concentrate, and packed with added ingredients, while presenting a bold, front-panel promise that looks like pure,…
TL;DR: A Vermont worker proved in court that Foxmar, Inc., doing business as Education and Training Resources, unlawfully retaliated against him for asserting his rights under workplace safety and earned sick time laws. A jury first awarded him over $3.2…
TL;DR:Coal miners in West Virginia say the respirators they trusted from 3M, Mine Safety Appliances (MSA), American Optical, and related companies failed to protect them from coal and silica dust. They point to internal papers and memos that, in their…
For decades, Monsanto sold highly toxic PCB chemicals and used a contract to push the financial fallout of contamination onto customers like Niagara Transformer Corp. Niagara agreed to defend and protect Monsanto from “any and all” liabilities linked to PCBs,…
TL;DR: Stephens Inc. failed for years to run a basic, enforceable compliance system to police political donations by its municipal finance professionals. The firm outsourced core checks to a third party, skipped documented oversight, and enabled a contribution that broke…
TL;DR: Federal EPA inspectors allege Apple mishandled hazardous waste at its Santa Clara facility… mislabeling and mismanaging corrosive and ignitable chemicals, venting solvent tank exhaust to open air, skipping daily tank checks, and shipping waste 105 times without required land-disposal…
TL;DR: A major brokerage (who has been in business since the 19th century) published years of order-routing transparency reports with wrong or missing information while lacking a basic supervisory system to make sure investors saw the truth. Regulators imposed a…
TL;DR: Federal EPA inspectors documented basic safety failures at a chlorine and sulfur dioxide facility in Torrance, California: corroded equipment, unlabeled and unsupported piping, unchocked one-ton gas containers, mismatched procedures on the platform, a contradictory emergency plan, and a non-operational…
TL;DR: Goldman Sachs helped lead a July 2021 IPO while a Goldman affiliate stood to receive $96 million from the proceeds, triggering a conflict-of-interest rule that required extra investor safeguards the firm failed to put in place. At the same…
TL;DR: For more than five years, Wells Fargo Clearing Services ran municipal-entity accounts without a working guardrail to stop unregistered municipal advisory activity. Wells Fargo lacked clear guidance, failed to identify bond-proceeds deposits, and didn’t build controls to prevent its…