Woman Sues eHarmony for Discrimination
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LOS ANGELES - A Northern California woman sued the online dating service eHarmony on Thursday, alleging it discriminates against gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Linda Carlson said she tried to use the Internet site in February to meet a woman but could not based on her sexual orientation.
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A Washington, D.C., woman has filed a lawsuit seeking $54 million in damages from Best Buy after the electronics retailer lost her laptop computer last year.The lawsuit was filed in D.C. superior court last November but was publicized in media outlets this week. According to plaintiff Raelyn Campbell, Geek Squad technicians at Best Buy&#39;s Tenleytown, D.C., store lost the computer sometime around July 2007, then the company misled her about its whereabouts for a few weeks before finally admitting on Aug. 9 that it had been lost.Best Buy offered Campbell $1,110 and a $500 gift card in compensation, something she calls a &quot;lowball&quot; offer on a blog she has devoted to the issue.According to her, the point of the lawsuit is to publicly embarrass Best Buy into changing its privacy policy in such cases.&quot;To me, the big issue is not the low-balling and bullying tactics, but Best Buy&#39;s systematic disregard for its customers&#39; personal information and potential exposure to identity theft,&quot; she wrote in her blog. &quot;I am hoping the attention that the lawsuit and this website generate might motivate Best Buy and other consumer electronics stores entrusted with products that contain consumers&#39; personal information to adopt thorough procedures and policies to safeguard customers&#39; property and personal information against theft.&quot;Best Buy can&#39;t say much about the issue because it&#39;s still before the court, but the company is working to find out what went wrong, according to company spokeswoman Nissa French.&quot;We&#39;re obviously embarrassed and disappointed that we were unable to resolve this customer&#39;s issue. We&#39;ve tried to resolve this dispute and feel badly that it escalated to a lawsuit,&quot; she said in an e-mail.Campbell could not be reached for comment.On her blog, she admitted that the $54 million in damages she was seeking was an &quot;absurd amount,&quot; but said that she chose such a large sum in order to draw attention to the problem.Laptop thefts are frequently the source of widely publicized data breaches. On Wednesday, Lifeblood, a Memphis, Tennessee, blood collection agency, said it was notifying 320,000 blood donors after two of its laptops went missing. The computers contained personal information including Social Security numbers.The issue of computer retailers and repair shops losing consumer laptops has not gained much attention, but Campbell believes these companies have a &quot;legal and moral obligation&quot; to safeguard confidential information on computers that are entrusted to them.Although Campbell&#39;s situation is an unusual one, it makes sense for Best Buy to take extra steps to protect its customers&#39; privacy by offering ID theft protection services, said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a privacy advocacy group that tracks data breaches. &quot;We&#39;re talking about a loss of something that&#39;s been entrusted to them,&quot; he said. &quot;As a bare minimum, they should be doing that.&quot;
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At first glance, the posting looked like any number of Internet classified ads explicitly seeking sex. But instead of the 27-year-old woman with long brown hair advertised, a male, Seattle-area graphic designer collected the replies and posted them online &#151; with photos, names and contact information.
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A former part-time teller and Mexican immigrant won more than $100,000 after the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination determined Citizens Bank discriminated against her when it bypassed her for a full-time job in favor of a less experienced white co-worker.
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A Washington, D.C., woman has filed a lawsuit seeking US$54 million in damages from Best Buy after the electronics retailer lost her laptop computer last year.
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[Hollywood News]: Los Angeles, Oct 26 : A strip joint sued by Catherine Zeta-Jones for using her images in advertising has reportedly defended itself saying she should be flattered.
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The law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP illegally discriminated against older employees by forcing partners out because of their age, federal regulators alleged yesterday in a lawsuit.
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WATERTOWN, N.Y. - A woman who claims she was used as unknowing bait to catch a man taking photographs up women's skirts is suing retailer T.J. Maxx.
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The lawyers behind a  record-setting sex discrimination case against Wal-Mart Stores  on Tuesday filed a new lawsuit against Costco Wholesale Corp.  claiming it barred women from top store management jobs.
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EMC Corp. denies charges in a lawsuit filed by two former employees that it discriminates against women.
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IT sales account manager in England seeks compensation after winning her sex discrimination case.
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The popular online social network Facebook Inc. is being sued by an Indiana woman who alleges it has profited from its members sending thousands of unauthorized text messages to mobile phone users whose numbers previously belonged to other people.
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High Court rules against Companies Act breach A corporate matchmaker whose introductions led to one company buying another is entitled to its fee, the High Court has ruled.â¦
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Lorene F. Schaefer has accused G.E. of systematically discriminating against women in both pay and promotions.
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Oh Grandma, what pigopolist eyes you have! All the better to sue you with, my dear An unemployed single mom with health problems has renewed her legal challenge of the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA), with unseemly new details. They include accusations that the cartel's goons tried to contact the woman's 10-year-old daughter at school by impersonating her grandmother on the phone.â¦
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A young woman has filed suit against Take-Two Interactive for including topless footage of her in &quot;The Guy Game,&quot; the Cox News Service reported Wednesday.
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Costco Wholesale Corp. was accused of bias against female employees in a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday.