#lawsuit

Zelle must face New York attorney general lawsuit over 'rampant' fraud, judge rules. 1 billion dollar lawsuit

I'm glad the boys' club is finally getting the reckoning it deserves. This is a win.

This finding is absolutely appalling:
"Neumark studied pay disparities at Nike using data the company provided to Hender’s attorneys during discovery. He concluded Nike had a gender pay gap of more than $11,000 per employee between 2015 and 2019."

Federal law classifies Amazon's Florida warehouse closures as permanent, despite the company's claims of temporary renovations. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act mandates 60 days' notice for layoffs lasting over six months, a definition that applies to Amazon's two-year facility conversion plans. This legal discrepancy impacts over 1,100 workers across two Florida locations. Miami-Dade County is pursuing legal action against Amazon for violating land use agreements tied to job creation at one of the affected sites. The company's shift to a robotics-first design necessitates these extensive rebuilds, leading to significant workforce displacement.

Miami, Florida

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/321051/20260720/amazon-labels-florida-warehouse-closures-temporary-federal-law-says-permanent.htm

Saw a meeting on my calendar for the 2Q results this Friday. I am pretty sure it said that it was with "Wall Street analysts". I don't think I've ever seen that on any other results all hands call before. I wonder if they are real Wall Street analysts or just paid stooges that are going to say the future is bright and getting booted off the Dow after 22 years means nothing.

I feel like things like this are a red flag like the time in 2024 when they spoke about transparency for almost the entire all hands call.

It was just by chance that Verizon had just lost a class action lawsuit for not being transparent so they had to prove that they at least knew how to say the word.

https://www.hcamag.com/us/specialization/employment-law/procurement-manager-sues-nielsen-over-layoff-and-3-year-non-compete/574789

Howard Stern has secured a lucrative new contract, reportedly earning him approximately $8,000 per minute. This significant income comes amidst recent staff reductions on his show. Stern has decided to broadcast only one show per week moving forward. The layoffs affected about a dozen employees. A former assistant has also filed a lawsuit alleging a hostile work environment.

Miami Beach, Florida

https://uinterview.com/news/howard-stern-is-making-8000-per-minute-in-his-new-contract-as-he-announces-staff-layoffs/amp/

A coalition of twelve states, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, has filed a lawsuit to block the proposed $110 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. The states argue that the consolidation would reduce competition, leading to higher prices, lower quality content, and fewer opportunities for diverse storytelling in the film and television industry. Paramount has stated that the lawsuit misapplies antitrust laws and that they will vigorously defend the transaction. The Department of Justice had previously investigated and concluded the merger would increase competition. Industry observers note that smaller, independent filmmakers are already demonstrating market viability, challenging the necessity of such large-scale consolidation.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/julia-cassidy/2026/07/13/12-democratic-states-block-paramount-merge-with-warner-bros-n2679342

Did you know that CDW is currently being sued in Cook County, Illinois for wage theft, commission fraud, and unlawful pay structures? Check out Long v. CDW Government LLC, Case No. 2025L007458.

Long alleges that during the hiring and onboarding process “Coworker Success” (what an Orwellian name) and management and leadership presented misleading parameters regarding how commissions were calculated, tracked, and distributed. While we was employed Long asserts that CDW hid the true calculations and unlawfully reduce his commissions by applying unlawful structures without sellers’ knowledge.

If you’re in a sales role at CDW, I highly recommend you research the facts of this case. I’ve heard many similar stories at CDW, but most never make it to a filing because pays terminated employees minimal severance to secure a release of claims and NDA.

The investigation focuses on IBM statements about the potential of IBM Z's 2026 cycle with the z17 program.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-shareholder-investigation-suewallst-notifies-investors-of-potential-securities-claims-involving-international-business-machines-302826688.html

A nurses union has filed a lawsuit against Sturgis Hospital. The union alleges the hospital violated state employment law. This action follows recent layoffs at the facility. The lawsuit seeks to address the alleged legal infractions. The hospital has not yet publicly responded to the suit.

Sturgis, MI

https://www.woodtv.com/video/nurses-union-sues-sturgis-hospital-after-layoffs/11972278/

https://www.reuters.com/world/meta-used-ai-target-workers-with-medical-conditions-layoffs-former-employees-2026-07-14/

Twenty-six Meta employees have filed a lawsuit alleging the company used AI to select workers for layoffs. The plaintiffs claim the AI systems disproportionately affected those with disabilities or on medical leave. They are seeking a court order to halt upcoming layoffs scheduled for July 22. Meta denies the allegations, stating that human decisions, not AI, drove workforce changes. This marks a novel legal challenge against AI's role in employment termination.

Oakland, California

https://www.reuters.com/world/meta-used-ai-target-workers-with-medical-conditions-layoffs-former-employees-2026-07-14/

Twenty-six employees of Meta Platforms have filed a novel lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities ‌or who took medical leave in selecting workers for mass layoffs.

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/meta-used-ai-target-workers-135207675.html

This should only make Oracle stock dive more, OpenAI is being sued for hardware technology theft.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets.html

https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-investor-lawsuit-openai-deal

The strain inside the AI bo-m’s biggest infrastructure bet has reached a courtroom. Oracle’s own investors are suing, saying the company hid how shaky its $300bn deal with OpenAI really was.

"Oracle was required to disclose at the time of the February 2026 Note Offering that the customer primarily responsible for the staggering [remaining performance obligations] growth claimed in the registration statement - OpenAI - had missed its internal revenue and new user targets and that OpenAI's own CFO had doubts raised about OpenAI's ability to pay for cloud computing power such as that supplied by Oracle. The registration statement, however, contained no such disclosures," the pension writes.

Class action document: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Sterling-Heights-v-Oracle-complaint.pdf

Two lawsuits challenge Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway's actions. They accuse her of unlawfully threatening businesses over slot machine games. One group argues the state cannot revoke licenses based on undefined "moral character." Another lawsuit seeks class action status to block prosecution of "pre-reveal" games. Hanaway's office states it will litigate the issue in court.

https://sbj.net/stories/report-lawsuits-challenge-missouri-attorney-general-crackdown-on-gambling-machines,104791

Humana, in case you haven’t figured it out yet, we do not like you.

If you would simply recognize those very bad middle level leaders in Associate Director and Director roles that pushed out some of us extremely good employees and fire those bad leaders, then maybe we would stop filing lawsuits against you, and stop bad mouthing you to the press and general public.

Get rid of those je-ks, those bad leaders, and we will relent. Make sure somehow it gets back to is when it is done. Thank you.

Memo to the Board of Directors. A Board Member & a watch dog from the NYDFS needs to be on milestone calls with Accenture & firm managment constantly to oversee this transition. In case you have not see it, our first real glimpse into the major issues w/Accenture have come from a recent lawsuit filed in the Southern District of NY by a former managing director of TIAA-CREF. Her name is Marcella Gift. The accusations, if proven true, should send shivers down the spine of every Board Member, CFO, and CFO. Read this from the Complaint:

**"106. Ms. Gift provided specific examples of products and services dependent on Record
Keeping Transformation work with Accenture and launching in Q4 2025, which were
experiencing serious challenges. The first was Annuity Payment Automation for the SIA product
recently launched for 401(k) accounts where the recordkeeper is TIAA or another party. The
second was MyChoice MYGA."

"114. By the end of July 2025, there were critical failures in the overarching Accenture/TIAA Recordkeeping partnership, and by September 2025, there were critical failures in the launch of
the products named by Ms. Gift."

"134. As Ms. Gift was under the threat of the written warning, she was forced to comply and said nothing about the documented and unfolding problems. Months later, the launch of MyChoice MYGA was imperiled. Had the observed problems been escalated in June, providing a long runway for a solution to be devised, TIAA teams would not have been working round the
clock, seven days a week, to build and test the technology needed to launch the product. Instead, TIAA product and technology teams were only made aware in September that Accenture would not be able to meet the October delivery date."

"139. Penrose also learned that there were significant problems in the support model from Accenture and that these problems were creating obstacles to achieving necessary goals and
milestones. He was also surprised to hear this. These were the same concerns that Ms. Gift had been raising. This was also inextricably linked to the requirements laid out in the MSA for the NBIA program."

"By July 2025,
the overall Accenture/TIAA recordkeeping performance scorecard was flashing red due to missed milestones and other failings. By September 2025, the ability to launch MyChoice MYGA in October/November 2025 was severely compromised due to critical failures in technology resourcing through RKT, scoping, and achievement of technology delivery
milestones."**

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If plans have contracts with states, how will this affect those? They can't pull out of a state until the contract ends, can they? What happens when staff leave or are let go & the company can't fulfill the contract requirements? Can states sue? Would Centene do that?

I recently lost a lot of respect for my organization.

We’re laying people off while also spending what appears to be hundreds of thousands of dollars on culture partners. That makes me wonder: who is responsible for the checks and balances on decisions like this?

I looked into one of these vendors and found they recently had been involved in a workplace harassment lawsuit. They also changed their legal name shortly before we entered into the partnership. If that information is publicly available, who is responsible for the due diligence?

Is it HR? Procurement? The business unit? Does CS&S have a vendor governance process?

Or is the process simply that someone reads a book, likes the message, and approves a half-million-dollar investment?

At this point, I question whether anyone thoroughly reviewed the company’s background, leadership, qualifications, or history before committing to this partnership. If they did, I’d genuinely like to understand what standards were used.

How has no exec internally brought up the lawsuit about securities fraud. The silence is deafening.

E.g
https://www.ktmc.com/it-gartner-inc-class-action-lawsuit

Meanwhile the C level still have their off-sites with expensive food and drinks like the world is rosy. And the stock keeps sinking lower

DXC have finally recieved $213,560,494.98 $213 million) from Tata Consultancy Services in a landmark trade secrets case. Thats a huge 15%/$1.2 equivalent DXCs stock value.

Stroke of luck for Rarwul he can stretch it 2 more quarters doing nothing.

Yesterday judge allowed lawsuit to advance against Fiserv. Massive F*up by DW under his Product watch!!!! And, he gets to keep his job!!? So motivating to work for Fiserv promoting these losers!

Cisco just sells the hw & sw. Not responsible for what customers do with it.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-856_kjfm.pdf

liberal loonies dissenting obviously

https://www.classactionlawyers.com/blog/humana

Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy has become a high-profile example of the legal hurdles terminated employees face, even as they argue the mass layoffs were done without the legally required notice.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/spirit-layoff-suit-puts-spotlight-on-labor-rights-in-bankruptcy

I haven’t been employed at CF a full year yet, and I’m paying close attention to this site and how information is shared. I just got word of the lawsuit pending against two brothers who have allegedly defrauded CF. A few months prior, I learned from the town hall meeting prior to selecting the new CEO that we had an $80MM deficit in operating costs. This was in alignment with the VSP purge. I’m too young to retire but too old to be a viable candidate anywhere else, but I recognize the “last hired, first fired” scenario. I’m grateful for this site where some real convo can be had. I wish nothing but the best for seasoned vets and those like me who are chewing fingernails and wondering what’s next.

Citi and Jane will do anything to get the CO removed

https://www.investmentnews.com/regulation-legal-compliance/ex-citi-executive-sues-bank-citing-trump-account-concerns-and-retaliation/267056

Did anyone else receive an email about a class action lawsuit regarding medical solutions and the 401k?

The Washington Post faces a new class-action lawsuit. It is accused of "surveillance pricing" against subscribers. The lawsuit alleges the paper harvested personal data to set unequal prices. Longtime customers reportedly paid more than new subscribers. The Clarkson Law Firm seeks punitive and statutory damages.

https://www.wfmd.com/2026/06/11/washington-post-faces-class-action-lawsuit-alleging-surveillance-pricing-of-subscribers/

https://www.haystack.tv/v/man-sues-agencies-arrest-ai-facial-recognition-mistake

T&Cs for me but not for thee?

https://dailyjournal.com/article/392055-judge-certifies-class-action-accusing-ricoh-of-systematic-printer-service-overbilling

https://www.beckerspayer.com/workforce/elevance-sues-former-chief-execution-officer-over-noncompete-agreement/

Elevance Health is suing a former senior executive, alleging he violated a noncompete agreement when he joined Medicare Advantage insurer Alignment Healthcare weeks after resigning.

The complaint was filed June 5 in an Indiana federal court and names Shane Hochradel, who previously served in a variety of executive roles at Elevance starting in 2021, most recently as chief execution officer. Mr. Hochradel notified Elevance of his resignation on May 8 and started June 1 as COO at Alignment.

Elevance argues Alignment is a direct competitor in the Medicare Advantage market, with both insurers operating plans in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas. Mr. Hochradel’s employment and stock award agreements barred him from taking a competing position for 12 months after his departure, according to the complaint. Elevance says that as chief execution officer, he led the company’s transformation team and helped develop a three-year plan to use artificial intelligence to cut costs and compete against rivals, including Alignment. Elevance alleges he cannot do his new job without drawing on that knowledge.

“Hochradel inevitably will use Elevance Health’s confidential information in his executive-level position at Alignment,” the complaint states.

Elevance also claims Mr. Hochradel did not notify its chief human resources officer that he was in talks with Alignment until after he accepted the role, a step his stock agreements required. The company said it learned of his new role on May 11 and reminded him of his contractual obligations, then informed Alignment of those obligations the following day.

Elevance is seeking compensatory damages and repayment of stock gains tied to equity that Mr. Hochradel exercised or vested over the prior 24 months, plus attorneys’ fees and costs. The suit is at least the fourth Elevance has brought against departing executives over noncompete agreements in recent years. In January, the company sued four former leaders at its Puerto Rico subsidiary who left for rival insurer Triple-S Salud, seeking more than $1.08 million in combined stock repayments. In September, it sued a former senior underwriting executive who joined health benefits company Gravie. And in 2023, Elevance sued its former west region Medicare president after she left for Molina Healthcare. A judge declined to block that move and the case was later settled.

At the Becker's 5th Annual Fall Payer Issues Roundtable, taking place November 2–3 in Chicago, payer executives and healthcare leaders will come together to discuss value-based care, regulatory changes, cost management strategies and innovations shaping the future of payer-provider collaboration.

A class action lawsuit was filed against Oakland City University. It alleges the university failed to pay employees for weeks. This occurred before a massive campus shutdown and staff layoffs. Chelsea Price filed the suit seeking unpaid wages and damages. The university previously announced suspending traditional undergraduate programs.

Evansville, Indiana

https://www.wbiw.com/2026/06/09/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-oakland-city-university-over-unpaid-wages-following-layoffs/

A couple of places says the 401k lawsuit will be this Friday, June 12. A couple of places say no set date has been established.

Anyone know anything more official-like?

Stop stealing other company chip patents !
Stop the layoffs immediately !

https://allaboutlawyer.com/vlsi-intel-3-billion-patent-lawsuit-appeals-court-2026/

Ummmmm. . .

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/ibm-at-t-accused-by-whistleblower-of-covering-up-foreign-hacks

By Jake Bleiberg and Mark Anderson
June 4, 2026 at 2:58 PM CDT |
Updated on June 5, 2026 at 9:18 AM CDT

• A lawsuit from a former IBM cybersecurity official alleges that International Business Machines Corp. and AT&T Inc. concealed breaches of their computer systems by foreign hackers from the US government in violation of the law.
• The complaint claims that the companies failed to disclose multiple breaches over years and made false assurances about the security of their systems in order to win and keep federal contracts.
• The suit alleges that foreign and unidentified hackers repeatedly infiltrated IBM's cloud computing infrastructure, which is widely used by the US government, including the military, and that the companies sometimes couldn’t determine who got in, or what was taken.

International Business Machines Corp. and AT&T Inc.’s computer systems were repeatedly breached by foreign hackers, and the companies concealed those intrusions from the US government in violation of the law, according to a lawsuit from a former IBM cybersecurity official.

William Barlow, IBM’s former vice president of threat intelligence, alleged in the complaint that the companies failed to disclose multiple breaches over years by attackers linked to foreign governments and made false assurances about the security of their systems in order to win and keep federal contracts.

The whistleblower complaint against IBM and AT&T was filed under seal in 2020 and is still pending before a federal court in New York. It was made public this week, after the US government declined to intervene in the case, and hasn’t been previously reported.

The suit offers a rare account of alleged security failures at two major government contractors. It raises questions about the protection of sensitive information on the networks, and about companies’ responsibility to disclose such compromises.

Shares of IBM fell 4% to $289.65 at 10:06 a.m. New York time on Friday, outpacing the broader losses across the stock market on a US jobs report. AT&T’s stock was up about 0.4%

The hackers allegedly breached massive IBM cloud computing infrastructure that’s widely used by many parts of the US government, including the military. AT&T operates this “Core Network” on behalf of IBM, and the Dallas-based telecommunications company’s systems are part of them, according to the complaint.

The complaint alleges that foreign and unidentified hackers repeatedly infiltrated the network and that the companies sometimes couldn’t determine who got in, or what was taken. It also says IBM downplayed or concealed incidents before entering government agreements requiring it to certify it had no significant unresolved cybersecurity issues.

“This complaint was filed six years ago, and the US Department of Justice declined to intervene,” said IBM spokesperson Adam Pratt. “IBM is confident that our actions followed the letter of the law.”

Representatives of AT&T didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Barlow worked at IBM in two stints beginning in 2002, including serving as vice president of threat intelligence from 2017 until his resignation in 2019, according to the lawsuit. He was quoted in a 2018 New York Times report about IBM offering cyber trainings in a mobile command center built in a customized semitrailer truck. Since leaving the Armonk, New York-based company Barlow has maintained a profile in the security industry, attending conferences and giving talks.

Jason T. Brown, an attorney for Barlow, declined to discuss the circumstances of his client’s resignation or say whether the Justice Department has investigated the allegations in the False Claims Act suit. Government decisions to intervene in such cases often take years and federal officials choosing not to get involved doesn’t indicate the merit of a complaint, Brown said. He added that the allegations implicate billions of dollars of federal business with AT&T and IBM.

“We’re looking forward to aggressively litigating the matter,” said Brown, of the firm Brown, LLC. “You can’t sell cybersecurity to the federal government while allegedly having these security problems within your own company.”

In his suit, Barlow claimed he personally witnessed numerous breaches of IBM’s core network and was pressured by executives to soften internal reports and omit details. Barlow alleged he knew of specific instances where IBM senior management “actively took steps to cover up and conceal” hacks from US regulators and government clients.

“The data breaches are so large and the core networks so poorly designed that neither IBM nor AT&T knows exactly what data was breached, who breached the data, where the data was breached or whether any data was exfiltrated, altered and/or modified in any respect,” the lawsuit alleges.

Chinese government-backed hackers were allegedly involved in some of the breaches cited in the suit.

In 2018, the US Department of Justice charged two alleged members of a Chinese hacking group that it said had waged a decade-long campaign to steal the data of 100,000 US Navy personnel. In his lawsuit, Barlow said the group, known as APT 10, had carried out that theft by infiltrating IBM’s networks.

Intelligence agencies told IBM that internet addresses associated with its network were connecting to infrastructure used by APT 10, according to the suit. An internal company investigation found more than 50,000 “potential APT 10 hits” between 2013 and 2016, the suit alleges. The following year, another internal probe allegedly found attackers had accessed nearly 400 compromised accounts and almost 200 total systems and servers in 18 countries, across every business unit, the complaint says.

But because the company didn’t keep access logs, there was nothing further it could do to investigate, according to the suit.

The Chinese Embassy in Washington didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Officials with the National Security Agency asked Barlow questions about the alleged hacks from China, but he was told to “dodge” them, according to the suit. It doesn’t say who allegedly gave Barlow this instruction.

Barlow brought his suit in 2020 and it remained secret until it was unsealed Wednesday.

The False Claims Act bars submitting false claims for payment to the US government. The law allows private whistleblowers to sue for alleged fraud against the government. Federal authorities may step in and effectively take control of such cases. The government can recover as much as three times its damages and whistleblowers can be awarded a portion of those damages.

A federal judge in New York ordered the suit be unsealed this spring after the US government declined to intervene. The court records don’t explain the government’s decision and Brown, Barlow’s attorney, said he didn’t know what motivated it.

The departments of Defense and Justice didn’t respond to emailed questions.

lets say a sr manager is mentioned in a public lawsuit and an employee has information useful to plaintiffs case, perhaps showing, just as an example, that the manager has made similar comments supporting the fact thay maybe he or she really doesnt care about people with a disability. does the employee automatically get fired for speaking up?

KD is showing her real nature and ability to sow and create chaos. KD is directly responsible for withholding BL indiscretions and now for removing Manifold with out cause. Another 10 million quid lawsuit