Delivery Apps Grubhub, Uber Eats to face a lawsuit for pricing practices

Apr 06, 2022 02:25 am UTC| Law Economy Business

Major food delivery brands Grubhub, Uber Eats, and its subsidiary Postmates may have to face a class-action lawsuit for their practices have driven up the price of restaurant food. A federal judge refused to dismiss the...

Hong Kong: British judges leaving top court is a strong condemnation of the end of civil liberties

Apr 05, 2022 11:57 am UTC| Law

Lord Robert Reed and Lord Patrick Hodge, the UK supreme court president and deputy president, have resigned from their roles on Hong Kongs top court. On their departure, they criticised the state of civil liberties and the...

Could better regulation reconcile trading and ethics?

Apr 05, 2022 11:53 am UTC| Law

For 30 years, financial scandals have been making front-page news. Among the most memorable were the fraud committed at Barings Bank in 1995, Sumitomo Bank in 1996, UBS in 2011 and JPMorgan in 2012. In France, the most...

Bill legalizing marijuana passes US House but unlikely to get Senate nod

Apr 04, 2022 00:44 am UTC| Law Health Economy Business

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill entitled Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act to end the federal ban on marijuana, though the measure was seen as unlikely to pass the Senate. The...

Burger King sued for exaggerating sandwich sizes in ads

Apr 01, 2022 00:00 am UTC| Law Economy Business

Customers filed a class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Miami against Burger King for exaggerating the size of its burgers in its advertisements. The four plaintiffs are asking for damages for themselves and...

StockX claims Nike has 'fundamental misunderstanding' of NFTs in lawsuit

Mar 31, 2022 23:59 pm UTC| Law Business Digital Currency

StockX responded to Nikes February lawsuit against its NFT program by claiming that the sportswear giant has shown a fundamental misunderstanding of NFTs. The response raises new questions about how digital products are...

Conservatives given another shot to sue San Anotnio over Chick-fil-A ban

Mar 31, 2022 23:59 pm UTC| Law Business Economy

The Texas Supreme Court on a 9-0 vote gave conservative activists another shot at suing the city of San Antonio for preventing Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant in an airport due to its support of anti-LGBTQ...