Liability News
Twitter Drops Lawsuit After U.S. Govt. Withdraws Quest to I.D. Trump Critic
Twitter Inc on Friday dropped a lawsuit it filed the previous day against the U.S. Homeland Security Department, saying the government had withdrawn a summons for records about who was behind an ...
Wells Fargo Board Blames Ex-CEO, Other Exec for Much of Fake Account Scandal
Wells Fargo & Co.'s board clawed back an additional $28 million from former Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf and canceled about $47 million of ex-community bank head Carrie Tolstedt's stock ...
Wells Fargo Investors Urged to Unload Most Board Members Over Fake Account Scandal
Wells Fargo & Co. shareholders should vote to remove most of the bank's board members after they failed to provide "timely and sufficient risk oversight" to head off a scandal involving the ...
Twitter Defends Free Speech of Member in Suit Against Trump Administration
Twitter Inc has not had a lot to celebrate lately, but a U.S. government demand that it reveal the identity of an account criticizing President Donald Trump's immigration policies gave the company a ...
SCOTUS Will Consider Company Exposure to Human-Rights Suits
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to use a case stemming from Middle Eastern terrorism to decide whether victims of overseas atrocities can use a two-century-old federal law to sue corporations for ...
Allstate, Others Pull ‘O’Reilly Factor’ Ads After NYT Harassment Report
More companies, including carmaker BMW and insurer Allstate, have pulled their advertising from Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" television program days after the New York Times reported Fox and star ...
Frivolous Lawsuit? Wise Sued for Allegedly Underfilling Potato Chip Bags
The maker of Wise potato chips has been sued by two consumers who said it fills bags less than halfway, deceiving them into overpaying. Wise Foods systematically underfills bags and has left them 58 ...
Uber Self-Driving Car Program at Risk; Engineer Allegedly Stole Trade Secrets
A judge said he's inclined to slap an order on Uber Technologies Inc. that may impede its self-driving car program after being told its director won't testify because he faces possible criminal ...