Deceptive Trade Practices Law
 
United States of America v. Edmodo, LLC

San Francisco, California civil litigation lawyer represented Defendant accused of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule), and the Federal Trade Commission Act.

The Edmodo educational platform, sold to schools throughout the United States, enabled teachers to interface with students, including childr

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United States of America v. Brijesh Goel

New York City, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with insider trading.

Britjesh Goel was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in New York, New York. In that position, GOEL received confidential, internal emails directed to Goldman Sachs’s Firmwide Capital Committee and Credit Markets Capital Committee, which contained detailed information and analysis abou

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Leonardo Castillo Saavedra v. Evanston Insurance Company, et al.

Central Islip, New York insurance law lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on bad faith breach of insurance contract theory.

This case was filed in the Queens Supreme Court, 724616/2022 and was removed to federal court.

New York bad faith insurance law is a complex area of law that regulates the conduct of insurance companies when they deal with claims made by their p

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United States of America v. Michael McMahon, Congying Zheng and Zhu Young a/k/a Jason Zhu

Brooklyn, New York criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with acting and conspiring to act in the United States as illegal agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), without prior notification to the Attorney General.

Michael McMahon, 55, of Mahwah, New Jersey, was convicted of acting as an illegal agent of the PRC, conspiracy to commit interstate stalking and int

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Deborah Brown v. Coty, Inc.

New York, New York personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a product liability theory.


Plaintiff, Deborah Brown, brings this putative class action against Defendant, Coty, Inc. (“Coty”), alleging violations of the New York Consumer Law for Deceptive Acts and Practices, N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law §§ 349 and 350, breach of an express warranty, breach of an impl

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Brendan Abbott v. Golden Grain Company

St. Louis, Missouri civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a breach of contract fraud.

Disappointed that he bought a box of rice pilaf that wasn't filled to the brim, Brendan Abbott alleges that Golden Grain deceived and cheated him. Abbott seeks to vindicate the rights of his fellow rice-pilaf purchasers whom he claims also have been deceived. Hoping to defen

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Ellen Rogers v. Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition, Inc.

Omaha, Nebraska civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant claiming to have been discriminated against in accommodations.


Upon consideration of the parties' joint request for entry of a Protective Order, (Filing No. 19), the Court enters the following Protective Order governing the disclosure of confidential Discovery Material by a Producing Party to a Receiving Par

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United States of America v. Anyclo International, Inc.

Newark, New Jersey civil litigation lawyers represented Defendant charged with evading customs duties on clothing that it imported into the United States.

Anyclo International Inc. (Anyclo) pleaded guilty to an information charging the company with evading customs duties. Anyclo was also sentenced on this charge today to a criminal fine of $250,000 and ordered to pay restitution to the U

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Bruce Yuille v. Uphold HQ, Inc.

New York, New York personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on an Electronic Fund Transfer Act violation theory.

The complaint contains a single reference to potential failures in the two-factor authentication system with respect to Plaintiff's account.

Plaintiff alerts Defendant of potential irregularities with his account before transferring assets.

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Zachary Nero, et al. v. Uphold HQ, Inc., et al.

New York, New York personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendants on negligence theories.


This case focuses on vulnerabilities in Defendant's two-factor authentication system.

Uphold serves 184+ countries, across 200+ currencies (traditional and crypto) and commodities with frictionless foreign exchange and cross-border remittance for members around the

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United States of America v. Jarvis Godwin

Brunswick, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with trafficking methamphetamine.

Jarvis Godwin, 39, of Homerville, Ga., was accused of distributing methamphetamin

“Methamphetamine and other highly addictive illegal drugs deliver devastation to communities, no matter how rural or populous,” said U.S. Attorney Steinberg. “The Ware County area will b

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United States of America v. Donald J. Trump

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with:

WILLFUL RETENTION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION/18:793
(1-31)

(a) Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation, go

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Stephen Mayes v. SIG Sauer, Inc.

Bowling Green, Kentucky personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a product liability theory.


On October 30, 2018, Stephen Mayes was shooting his new Sig Sauer P320 X Carry 9MM pistol, which was designed and manufactured by Defendant Sig Sauer, Inc. Mayes had the gun in a holster on his hip and was preparing to draw the gun when it discharged, shooting Mayes

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Jose Solo v. General Motors, LLC

Austin, Texas consumer law lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act theory.

The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (MMWA) is a federal law that governs consumer product warranties in the United States. The law was enacted in 1975 to protect consumers from unfair or deceptive warranty practices.

The MMWA applies to written warranties that are offered

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Stephen Butts v. State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company

Austin, Texas insurance law lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory.

Texas law allows individuals to file a bad faith lawsuit against an insurance company if the company unreasonably denies or delays a claim. To establish a bad faith claim, the individual must prove that the insurance company:

Knew or should have know

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United States of America v. Crystal A. Huang

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with devising a scheme intended to defraud investors and obtain money and property, under false pretenses, to benefit her company, ProSky Inc.

Crystal A. Huang, 41, of Lehi, admitted she knowingly offered investments in her company, ProSky Inc., by providing false promises to potential investors. From February 20

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United States of America v. William Merlino

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with selling misbranded drugs online and obstruction of justice.

The chemical 2,4-Dinitrophenol (“DNP”) has a variety of industrial and commercial uses, such as herbicides, dyes, and wood preservatives. In the 1930s, before federal law required drugs to be proven safe before they were marketed, DNP was u

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United States of America v. Remberto Antormachy Estrella Jimenez and Remberto Andres Estrella Gomez

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with participation in a fraudulent scheme to avoid the payment of millions of dollars in excise taxes on imported tobacco products.

Remberto Antormachy Estrella Jimenez, 38, and Remberto Andres Estrella Gomez, 64, both of Santiago, were the managing members of Dominican Tobacco Products, LLC—a Florida company that im

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United States of America v. Anise Kachadourian

Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with purchasing prescription oncology medications under false pretenses to sell them for profit.

Anise Kachadourian, 55, of Towaco, New Jersey, a board-certified oncologist, pleaded guilty to an information charging her with unlawfully selling prescription cancer medication, which had been previously purchased usin

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Anthony Andre Paul, et al. v. The City of New York, et al.

New York, New York civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendants claiming the Defendants violated the standard practices and procedures for property police procedures for handling a disturbed persona.

On July 1, 2015, Anthony Andre Paul II (“Paul”) resided in a shared apartment on the first floor in apartment 1B of Freedom House #19 (“Freedom House”), a three-quar

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United States of America ex rel. et al v. Georgia Pain Management, P.C. et al.

Atlanta, Georgia civil litigation lawyer represented Defendants accused of violating the False Claims Act.

James Ellner, M.D., and his Woodstock, Georgia pain management practice, Georgia Pain Management, P.C., and ambulatory surgical center, Samson Pain Center, P.C, agreed to pay $625,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by submitting improper claims t

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United States of America v. Michael Wright

Oxford, Mississippi criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Michael Wright, 40, of Amory, Mississippi pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine in February. Court records show that Wright received more than two pounds of methamphetamine in the mail that he intended to d

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Joege Avalos v. Wounded Warrior Project, Inc.

San Antonio, Texas civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a job discrimination theory claiming he was discriminated against because of his age.

29 U.S.C. 621 provides:

(a) The Congress hereby finds and declares that—
(1) in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employmen

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Joseph Ozmun v. Portolio Recovery Associates, LLC, et al.

Austin, Texas consumer credit lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on Collection Practices Act and Texas Debt Collection Practices Act violation theories.


Ozmun contends Defendants then violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and the Texas Debt Collections Act (TDCA) when they (1) sought a default judgment against him for the full $2,065.21[1] and (2) comm

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Megan Perkins v. The New York Times Company, d/b/a The New York Times

New York City, New York consumer law lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant claiming that Defendant violated the North Carolina Automatic Renewal Statute, N.C.G.S. Section 75-41(a).

Plaintiff Meghan Perkins, is a citizen of North Carolina, sued The New York Times claiming that it wrongfully renewed her digital subscription without her permission and in violation of North Carolina

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