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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Judge Sets 2016 Date for Wrongful Death Case Against GM |  | A federal judge set Jan. 11, 2016, for the first wrongful death trial against GM arising from defective ignition switches. U.S. Judge Jesse Furman for the Southern District of NY scheduled the trial after a hearing Thursday. GM is facing 15 plaintiffs seeking compensation for fatalities, according to a filing in federal court in Manhattan. Some lawsuits are proceeding separately in other federal and state courts. Setting the trial more than a year in advance leaves time for any plaintiffs and GM to negotiate settlements.
Greg Gardner, Detroit Free Press 11/07/2014    | | Read Article: Detroit Free Press |
| F.T.C. Settles First Case Targeting â?˜Patent Troll' | | The Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday that it had settled its first consumer-protection lawsuit against a company for using 'deceptive sales claims and phony legal threats' to try to get unsuspecting companies to license patents. More than 16,000 small to midsize companies were told they had probably violated patents involving the use of common document scanners hooked up to a computer network, the F.T.C. said.
EDWARD WYATT, The New York Times 11/07/2014 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| Takata Saw and Hid Risk in Airbags in 2004, Former Workers Say | | Alarmed by a report a decade ago that one of its airbags had ruptured and spewed metal debris at a driver in Alabama, Takata secretly conducted tests on 50 airbags it retrieved from scrapyards, according to two former employees involved in the tests, one of whom was a senior member of its testing lab. The steel inflaters in two of the airbags cracked during the tests, a condition that can lead to rupture, the former employees said. The result was so startling that engineers began designing possible fixes in preparation for a recall, the former employees said. But instead of alerting federal safety regulators to the possible danger, Takata executives discounted the results and ordered the lab technicians to delete the testing data from their computers and dispose of the airbag inflaters in the trash, they said.
HIROKO TABUCHI, The New York Times 11/07/2014 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| Ocwen Financial Faces Civil Racketeering Lawsuit | | A lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in California alleges that Ocwen Financial Corp, a mortgage service company, overcharged its borrowers in an effort to drive up its own profits. The lawsuit was filed by one of the company's borrowers who alleges he was charged for an escrow account that he never authorized. The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, accuses the company of civil racketeering. Back in February, the New York state financial regulator stopped the company from purchasing servicing rights on 184,000 home loans. The civil lawsuit was filed this week in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California and seeks unspecified damages.
Dan Levine, Reuters 11/06/2014 | | Read Article: Reuters |
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