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Black teacher says Chula Vista school district officials didn't address allegedly racist messages from students against her

By Southern California Record |
The teacher says she was compelled to resign her job after the district administrators allegedly ignored years of alleged anti-black racial harassment at the hands of students, while taking stands against alleged anti-Latino, antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ actions by students in other San Diego area schools

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Class action says Glad brand trash bags are not as recyclable as sellers claim

By Southern California Record |
The lawsuit claims the defendants have misled consumers by not telling them the trash bags allegedly are not considered to be recyclable by most municipalities.

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Class action says kratom maker MIT45 allegedly hasn't been honest about the addictive nature of their products

By Southern California Record |
The lawsuit alleges MIT45 violated California laws by allegedly not disclosing to customers how addictive their products may actually be.

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Class action accuses Houser LLP over data breach

By Southern California Record |
Law firm Houser LLP is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly failing to protect individuals' personal data during a data breach.

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DoD sued by animal care training vocational school over decision to cut off tuition assistance for military spouses

By Southern California Record |
Animal Behavior College said the Department of Defense wrongly classified its programs as "continuing education," cutting off tuition assistance for thousands of military spouses who use ABC animal care and services training to start or advance new careers.

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Class action lawsuit accuses Kohl's of misleading customers about thread counts on bedsheets

By Southern California Record |
The lawsuit claims Kohl's advertises thread counts of 600 or more in its 100% cotton bedsheets, but such thread counts are allegedly actually impossible and don't make for better bedsheets

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California utility agrees to pay federal government $80 million to resolve wildfire litigation

By Michael Carroll |
Southern California Edison will pay $80 million to the federal government to compensate for firefighting costs and property damage resulting from a 2017 fire that charred more than 100,000 acres of National Forest lands in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.

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PAGA lawsuit accuses Katmai Technical Services of alleged violations of CA labor law

By Southern California Record |
The lawsuit against the Native-owned government services firm was filed under California's Private Attorneys General Act

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Class action accuses ClarityRX skincare products maker over marketing text messages

By Southern California Record |
The lawsuit claims Clarity Clinical Skincare of allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act

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Class action accuses TMobile of allegedly misleading customers into agreeing to fees added onto monthly bills

By Southern California Record |
The lawsuit accuses T-Mobile of allegedly gaining hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized fees from California customers.

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Class action aimed at Welch Foods over ascorbic acid in grape juice

By Southern California Record |
The lawsuit claims the label asserts Welch's light grape juice beverage asserts the beverage is preservative free.

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Walgreens accused in class action of allegedly improperly recording phone calls to customer service center

By Southern California Record |
The class action alleges the recordings were made without consent, allegedly violating California's privacy law.

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Investor class action says Ventyx owes for allegedly misleading about effectiveness of psoriasis medication

By Southern California Record |
The lawsuit asserts the company used allegedly misleading assertions about its product, known as VTX958, to help boost its initial stock offering in 2021.

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Class action accuses Hanes Brands of allegedly implanting spyware on devices used to access Maidenform website

By Southern California Record |
The lawsuit marks the latest such class action brought by attorney Scott Ferrell and named plaintiff Miltita Casillas leveling similar accusations against online retailers.

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Class action targets HopSkipDrive over 2023 data breach

By Southern California Record |
Rideshare company HopSkipDrive is facing a class action lawsuit over its handling of a data breach in 2023.

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'SEAL Team' freelance TV show writer says CBS discriminated against him as a white, heterosexual male by refusing to hire him full time

By Southern California Record |
The writer, Brian Beneker, claims he has been repeatedly passed over for a post as a staff writer on the show for years, in favor of far less experienced and less accomplished writers who are black, female or LGBTQ, or a combination of all of those race, gender and sex demographics.

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More Armenian Americans sue Citibank over alleged lending discrimination

By Southern California Record |
The lawsuit is at least the third like it filed in Los Angeles courts accusing the financial giant of "pervasive discrimination" against borrowers with ethnic Armenian surnames

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Los Angeles-area attorneys turn to billboards to expand their reach

By Michael Carroll |
Personal injury attorneys in Los Angeles seeking to boost their client leads have increasingly turned to freeway billboards to get their message out to captive audiences sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic, recent data shows.

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Wolfman from Top Gun sues over inclusion in Maverick

By Legal Newsline |
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - The actor who portrayed Wolfman in the first Top Gun movie is suing Paramount Pictures over using his likeness in the blockbuster sequel.

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Class action accuses Redfin, National Realtors Association of antitrust law over broker commissions

By Southern California Record |
The lawsuit accuses Redfin and other alleged co-conspirators of allegedly leveraging their control of the MLS to drive up agent commissions to be paid by home sellers.