May 2014: Plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice, meaning that plaintiffs cannot refile the complaint. We cannot determine why plaintiffs dismissed the lawsuit.
January 2014: A class-action lawsuit was filed against Facebook for allegedly representing that its users endorse companies or products without the users’ knowledge, consent, and, in some cases, actual endorsement. Specifically, the named plaintiff alleges that Facebook sponsored an advertisement representing that he “liked” USA Today newspaper when he had never actually clicked the “Like” button for that paper. (DiTirro et al v. Facebook, Inc., Case No. 14-cv-00132, N. D. CA.).
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MADISON, CONN. December 1, 2022 – Acting on a complaint filed by ad watchdog, truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org), California regulators have reached a settlement with lingerie company Savage X Fenty, originally a joint venture between…
This annual heartstring-tugging tradition skates into another year.
Complaints allege violations of state securities laws.
Lingerie company agrees to pay $1.2 million to settle lawsuit
Unearthing the fees that Fisher charges but doesn’t disclose in some of its TV ads.