TL;DR: A new class action lawsuit accuses Spotify of letting fake “bot” listeners flood its platform with artificial streams. The filing says this fraud boosts the royalty share for a tiny set of artists (centered on the alleged PDF file…
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: A veteran artist’s business accused Disney of quietly blacklisting the Village People (an absolutely massive band) from its concerts while stringing along the band’s agents with coy, misleading messages. Disney’s alleged “do not book” policy and opaque communications undermined…
TL;DR: A very recent class action lawsuit alleges that Spotify presents its playlists and AI recommendations as “personalized,” while quietly boosting tracks through a pay-for-play system (“Discovery Mode”) that trades lower artist royalties for greater exposure. Listeners pay monthly fees…
TL;DR: A federal court found that a cluster of law firms controlled by Michael W. Lanier used telemarketing and mailers to charge struggling homeowners upfront fees for mortgage “relief” that often never arrived. The court permanently banned the firms from…
TL;DR: Government prosecutors allege a robocall supply chain that pumped out more than 23 million ringless voicemail ads for a debt-relief program while hiding who was really calling, targeting numbers on the Do Not Call list, and taking people’s money…
TL;DR The GEO Group, one of the largest private prison contractors in the United States, systematically extracted labor from immigrant detainees under coercive conditions while receiving lucrative federal contracts. Detainees were paid $1 per day for essential facility work such…
A systemic practice designed to shift routine maintenance costs onto tenants was recently struck down by Massachusetts’ highest court In a ruling with sweeping implications for renters (that I’ll go over in a little bit), the Supreme Judicial Court found…
A nationwide class-action lawsuit against corporate giant Kimberly-Clark, centered on allegations of deceptive marketing for its Kleenex Germ Removal Wet Wipes, has imploded… not on the merits of the case, but because of a catastrophic legal blunder that left federal…
A Massachusetts-based company offering Social Security Disability advocacy services allegedly initiated or caused more than 25.7 million illegal telemarketing calls to phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry between 2019 and 2022. A federal complaint filed by the…