A Wood River electric company has filed two new separate class action lawsuits against a chiropractor’s office and a real estate company, alleging the office and company sent unsolicited faxes to it, causing a waste of paper and employee time. Both complaints by Locklear Electric are nearly identical and were filed on the same day…
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Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty sues TSA
The American Civil Liberties Union may have just earned itself a few more Republican admirers. Announcing a lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration for the “illegal” detention of the Campaign for Liberty’s treasurer in April at a St. Louis airport, the ACLU damned what it called a “troubling pattern” of aggressive invasions of privacy by…
Would you trade your online passwords for a chance at a job?
I’ve long since given up trying to understand things like who thought up Pet Rocks or why people eat sweetbreads. I’m pretty sure, though, something I read today will have me scratching my head for a long time to come. ReadWriteWeb is reporting that applicants for jobs with the City of Bozeman, Montana, are expected…
FTC obtains $1.7 million judgment against InterBill
A federal court has ordered a payment processor that debited consumers’ bank accounts without their authorization to pay $1,779,000 in consumer redress and to end the illegal practice. Payment processors serve as middlemen between merchants and banks or credit card companies. In 2006, the Federal Trade Commission charged the defendants with unfairly debiting thousands of…