Plaintiffs Allege They Were “Forced” to Buy Quarter Pounders
If this complaint had some delicious cheese melted over it, it might have at least some merit.
Consumer Protection
Judge Richard Posner: Cat Person
Cats do funny things. Sometimes in judicial opinions.
The $65-Million Pants Case: Chapter 28
Roy Pearson has re-entered the building.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE of the Short-Subway-Sandwich Settlement
It’s a settlement all right.
Twitter Takedown of Scottish Scam [Updated]
Scottish lawyer Malcolm Combe recently posted this tale about a promoted tweet gone wrong. He and several other lawyers went after a company called Highland Titles, which was making this offer: For just 30 quid, it would appear, you can…
Harvard Grad Threatens Legal Action Over $4 Charge
According to Boston.com, Ben Edelman graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, got a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and a law degree from Harvard Law School, and is now an associate professor at Harvard Business School. And yet he remains…
U.S. Pat. No. 8605152: Method for Filming a Yoga Class
"The yoga community went into uproar," says the Electronic Frontier Foundation, after companies that offer online fitness classes got letters from a competitor, YogaGlo, saying that it had applied for a patent on the "method and technique" involved. The method and…
“The Super Bowl of Fortuneteller Fraud Cases”
AKA “Operation Crystal Ball.”
Attorney General Questions Value of a Degree From “Trump University”
Usually you get what you pay for, but in this case you do not.
I Can’t Play NHL 2008 Online Forever, Plaintiff Complains
Well, the ever-roiling, always-turbid waters of California consumer law have just coughed up yet another ridiculous creature whose slowly decomposing corpse will stink up the once-pleasant beach that is the federal docket for the next several months. (Previous sentence ©2013…