Ford, Magna face class-action suit
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TORONTO (CP) -- Up to 400,000 Canadians might be driving Ford vehicles with faulty door latches that could lead to serious injury or death, according to a $527-million class-action lawsuit commenced Tuesday against Ford Motor Co., Magna ...
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A multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a dry cleaners has focused on the term "satisfaction guaranteed" and where to draw the line when a customer demands satisfaction over a pair of trousers he says were lost.
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SACRAMENTO -- California's attorney general yesterday sued the six largest US and Japanese automakers, including GM, Ford , and Toyota , alleging that emissions from their vehicles have harmed health, damaged the environment, and cost the state millions to combat the effects.
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California's attorney general on Wednesday sued the six largest U.S. and Japanese automakers, including GM, Ford and Toyota, for damages related to greenhouse gas emissions.
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California sued six of the   world's largest automakers over global warming on Wednesday,   charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have caused   billions of dollars in damages.
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San Francisco, September 2: A group of Oracle Corp shareholders can pursue a class action lawsuit that accuses the business software maker and Chief Executive Larry Ellison of covering up losses, a US appeals court said on Wednesday.
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A federal lawsuit alleges Wal-Mart Stores Inc. discriminates against blacks seeking truck-driving jobs, a contention the world's largest retailer denies.
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(InfoWorld) - EMC could face a sexual discrimination class action lawsuit if a judge opens an existing case up to other female EMC workers, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Two women filed a lawsuit against the IT giant in 2004, alleging discrimination and harassment. On Monday, a judge for the U.S. District Court in Northern Illinois will hear arguments about whether to allow other women who worked in sales at EMC from 2001 to 2004 to join the suit, according to the Journal. In a letter posted to EMC's Web site, Joe Tucci, the company's chairman, president, and CEO strongly denied that discrimination or harassment happened or continue to occur at the company. "EMC has long been committed to maintaining a workplace free of discrimination and harassment, with significant opportunities for every employee to succeed and grow," he wrote. He said that during the four years covered by the case, women sales reps at the company in the U.S. earned, on average, more than their male counterparts. Since 2001, the number of women at the vice president and senior vice president levels has more than doubled, and the number of women at the director level has nearly tripled, he wrote. However, the suit filed by former sales representatives Tami Remien and Debra Fletcher paints a very different picture. At the time they filed the suit, they said just one of EMC's most senior executives was a woman and that the Chicago sales office of 30 had at most six women. Remien's managers, according to the suit, denied her the engineering and managerial support that her male counterparts received, took accounts that she had begun selling products to and gave them to less successful male sales people, and was told that she couldn't take on certain accounts because she didn't tolerate strip clubs, hunt, fish, drink, or smoke. She claims that when she complained to human resources, her managers retaliated by taking away essentially all of her accounts and continued to deny her support. She also claims that her boss often shouted gender-based obscenities at her and called her stupid. Fletcher had similar experiences under the same manager. She also once made a large sale but her commission was given to a male co-worker because he had a family, according to the suit. One account was taken away from her after she was falsely accused of having a sexual relationship with the client, the suit claims. Both women were let go from their jobs at EMC after being left with no accounts or with accounts that didn't generate revenue. Twelve additional sex discrimination cases have been filed against EMC since 2001, according to the Journal's article.
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Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. said Tuesday that the Securities and Exchange Commission has asked the companies for information on their pension fund accounting.
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General Motors Corp. GM.N and Ford  Motor Co. F.N launched new U.S. sales incentives on Friday as  both automakers struggle with falling market share and high  inventories of unsold vehicles.
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Ford and General Motors have announced plans to offer extended warranties to battle the perception of poor quality that have plagued American vehicles.
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California filed a global warming   lawsuit on Wednesday against Ford Motor Co. F.N, General   Motors Corp. GM.N, Toyota Motor Corp. 7203.T and three   other automakers, charging that greenhouse gases from their   vehicles have cost the state millions of dollars.
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DETROIT The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked General Motors and Ford to provide information on their pension and retiree health care plans.
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Navistar International Corp.  said on Wednesday it filed a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co.  for breaching a diesel engine contract covering F-150 pickup trucks, marking an escalation of a legal battle between the two.
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California on Wednesday sued six   of the world's largest automakers, including General Motors   Corp. GM.N and Toyota Motor Corp. 7203.T, over global   warming, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles   have caused billions of dollars in damages.
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3M filed suit this week in Minneapolis, Minn. against computer makers Sony and Lenovo, along with a handful of other firms, for allegedly infringing on its patents related to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The company also asked that imports of the batteries be blocked.
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A FEDERAL judge in Alexandria, Va., will hear opening arguments today in a case that pits Geico against Google. Geico, the auto insurer owned by Berkshire Hathaway, sued Google in May for trademark infringement.