Articles by Jonathan Stempel

Apple Sued Over Antitrust Violations Involving Apple Pay

Apple Inc. was sued on Monday in a proposed class action by payment card issuers accusing the iPhone maker of abusing its market power in mobile devices to thwart competition for its Apple Pay mobile wallet. According to a complaint …

New York Accuses Drug Firm Teva of Lying About Opioid Role

New York’s attorney general says Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. lied to evade accountability for helping fuel the state’s opioid crisis, and should be restored to litigation where the Israeli company’s U.S. unit had been found liable. In a court filing, …

Skittles Are Toxic, Federal Lawsuit Claims

Mars Inc. has been sued by a consumer who claims that Skittles candies are unfit to eat because they contain a known toxin that the company had pledged six years ago to phase out. In a proposed class action filed …

New York Accuses Drug Firm Teva of Lying About Opioid Role

New York’s attorney general on Monday said Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. lied to evade accountability for helping fuel the state’s opioid crisis, and should be restored to litigation where the Israeli company’s U.S. unit had been found liable. In a …

Grocery Chain Wegmans Settles with New York Over Data Breach

The supermarket chain Wegmans agreed to pay $400,000 and upgrade its security practices over a data breach that exposed personal information of more than 3 million consumers nationwide, New York Attorney General Letitia James said on Thursday. Wegmans was accused …

Whole Foods Workers Lose Appeal Over ‘Black Lives Matter’ Masks

A U.S. appeals court said Whole Foods employees cannot sue the upscale grocery chain or its parent Amazon.com Inc. after being sent home without pay or disciplined for wearing Black Lives Matter face masks on the job. In a 3-0 …

Walgreens Reaches $105 Million Settlement With Shareholders

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. agreed to pay $105 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit accusing it of misleading shareholders about how rising generic drug prices and reimbursement pressures would hurt its pharmacy business. The preliminary all-cash settlement was filed …

Buffett’s Dairy Queen Loses Lawsuit Over ‘Blizzard’ Name

A federal judge ruled that Dairy Queen cannot stop W.B. Mason Co from selling “Blizzard” bottled spring water, the same name the unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc BRKa.N uses for a popular ice cream product. In a 217-page …

Lyft Reaches $25 Million Settlement of Claims it Hid Safety Problems Before IPO

Lyft Inc has reached a $25 million settlement to resolve shareholder claims that the ride-hailing company concealed safety problems, including sexual assaults by drivers, prior to its 2019 initial public offering. The preliminary all-cash settlement was filed on Thursday with …

EPA Ordered to Reassess Glyphosate’s Impact on Health, Environment

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was ordered by a federal appeals court on Friday to take a fresh look at whether glyphosate, the active ingredient in Bayer AG’s Roundup weed killer, poses unreasonable risks to humans and the environment. In …