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Latest News in Consumer Protection

  • July 24, 2024

    Boeing, DOJ Finalize 737 Max Plea Deal

    The Boeing Co. has finalized its agreement to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud safety regulators about the 737 Max 8's development, avoiding a criminal trial over a pair of deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019, according to a U.S. Department of Justice court filing Wednesday evening.

  • July 24, 2024

    Delta Air Targeted In DOT Probe Following Global Tech Outage

    Delta Air Lines is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Transportation over its handling of massive flight cancellations since the global outage Friday that left passengers stranded in airports waiting hours to reach customer service representatives and resulting in thousands of complaints, the agency announced Wednesday.

  • July 24, 2024

    Google, Ill. Parents Reach Deal In Grade School BIPA Dispute

    Google and parents who accused the tech giant of illegally harvesting their grade school daughters' biometric data have reached a settlement in the putative class action and want the suit sent back to state court to finalize the agreement, they have told an Illinois federal judge.

  • July 24, 2024

    Exxon Loses Bid To Ditch Conn. Climate Change Fraud Suit

    Exxon Mobil Corp. cannot escape Connecticut's lawsuit accusing it of deceiving consumers about the negative impact of fossil fuels on the earth's climate, a state judge ruled Tuesday in rejecting the oil and gas giant's contention that it can't be sued in the Nutmeg State.

  • July 24, 2024

    Eggland's Best Accused Of Lying About Hens' 'Pleasant' Digs

    Egg brand Eggland's Best was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of misleading consumers by describing living conditions for certain laying hens as "pleasant" when in reality those chickens allegedly "live in typical factory farming conditions."

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