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N.C.A.A. Faces Class Action over One Year Scholarships
A lawsuit filed Monday in San Francisco by former Rice University football player Joseph Agnew claims that the N.C.A.A. one year scholarship amounts to a price fixing scheme between the organization and the member universities. Five months ago the N.C.A.A. acknowledged that the antitrust division of the Justice Department was looking into their one year scholarship rule. Agnew lost his scholarship for his senior year at Rice. Agnew enrolled at Rice University in 2006 on a full scholarship the complaint alleges. He played in all 13 of the teams games during his first season and thus qualified for his sophomore year scholarship. After missing play time and battling with injuries throughout that season Agnew was not offered the scholarship for his junior year. He appealed that decision and won, but was again passed over the next year. He was a star athlete and if the one year scholarship rule hadn’t…
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Tagged anti trust, Class Action, Joseph Agnew, N.C.A.A., price fixing
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Class action filed against Louisiana Schools on Behalf of Special Needs Students
A civil rights class action lawsuit has been announced on behalf of special needs students in New Orleans. The defendants listed are the Louisiana Department of Education (LDE), Louisiana School Superintendent Paul Pastorek, and the Louisiana Board of Elementary and secondary Education (LBESE). The 60 page class action complaint claims that the defendants have engaged in “disability discrimination” because the Orleans Public Schools have failed to endure that Louisiana public schools offer the same variety of educational programs and services to disabled students as non-disabled children. The purpose of the lawsuit is claimed to be an action to “vindicate the rights of all New Orleans students with disabilities filed pursuant to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004. There are 22 plaintiffs named in the lawsuit all of whom are disabled students and their parents who report to being affected by the lack of services for the disabled….
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Conceso Class Action Suit Granted
Many times in a case that involves a financial product it can be difficult to obtain a national class action status. However, the case against Conseco Life Insurance Co. has been presented as a breach of contract case and has finally been granted national class action status after originally being filed in 2008. The plaintiffs claim that Conseco has breached nearly 10,000 “Life Trend” insurance policies that the company sold throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s. And further claim that the contractual vacations that include improper premium charges, improper deductions, and could result in the losses of tens of thousands of dollars per each individual policyholder. While this lawsuit stems from misappropriated funds, and financial account dealings the bottom line is that what it all boils down to is a case of the life insurance company breaking trust and breaching contracts with individual clients. Conseco has tried to have the class…
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Tagged breach of contract, Class Action, Conceso, life insurance
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Class Action Suit against Google?
Has Google illegally shared the search queries of its users with third parties? A federal class action lawsuit alleges that this is exactly what Google has done. The class action lawsuit is seeking monetary relief for those whose search queries were illegally shared and an injunction to prevent further privacy abuses. According to the complaint Google has designed its services so that the often highly sensitive and personally identifiable information is transferred to marketers and data brokers and has been sold and resold countless times. A former FTC employee and privacy advocate had asked that the FTC investigate Google claiming that the company’s privacy policy is deceptive. His reasoning centers on the fact that when a link is clicked the IP address that the user came from is transmitted as a “referrer header” many times with search queries the entire text of the search is provided including personal information if…
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