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  • Flint Water Poisoning Prompts Class Action Lawsuit

    Posted By Golomb & Honik, P.C. || 9-Feb-2016

    Three Flint, Michigan residents recently filed a class action lawsuit against Michigan's governor, Rick Snyder, as well as the city of Flint and the state of Michigan. The plaintiffs allege that they suffered serious injury from drinking water contaminated with lead. Former Flint emergency financial manager, Darnell Earley, and other former emergency managers, were also named in the class ...
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  • Chase Settles Lawsuit over Debt Collection

    Posted By Golomb & Honik, P.C. || 7-Dec-2015

    After reaching settlement agreements with 47 other states earlier this year, JPMorgan Chase recently settled with the state of California to the tune of $50 million. The settlement agreement states Chase used abusive and illegal debt-collection practices to extract money from credit card customers in the state. This deal is the final step in a lawsuit filed by California Attorney General, Kamala ...
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  • "Unlimited" Data Throttling Policy to Change Following $100 Million Fine to AT&T

    Posted By Golomb & Honik, P.C. || 20-Oct-2015

    Just a few months back, the FCC fined AT & T $100 million for misleading customers regarding “unlimited” data plans. As a result, AT&T has now quietly made changes to its “throttling” policies. Throttling entails intentionally slowing down data-hungry users. The issue is how that slowing process is accomplished and whether consumers are misled about the process. ...
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  • Banks are Getting Rich off Your ATM Fees

    Posted By Golomb & Honik, P.C. || 7-Oct-2015

    Those seemingly unavoidable ATM fees you pay every time you use the service may be providing hefty revenues for big and smaller local banks. In fact, the major banks, such as Bank of America, Chase and Wells Fargo, brought in a staggering $437.7 million dollars in revenues from ATM fees during the first quarter of 2015. Justification for these ATM fees from those banks are that they are simply ...
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