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New York Is Now Investigating Volkswagen Recall
While federal regulators have yet to publicly confirm a reported criminal investigation into Volkswagen’s alleged attempt to deceive consumers and emissions tests, New York state is letting it be known...
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Woman Claims Lucille Roberts Gym Accused Her Of “Trespassing” For Working Out...
Should you be able to wear whatever you want when you exercise? A New York City woman says that employees of the Lucille Roberts gym chain were so upset about her insistence on wearing a skirt while...
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13 Mayors (And One Almost-Mayor) Ask Verizon To Stop Dragging Its Feet On FiOS
Earlier this year, Verizon made clear what many industry watchers had known for years — that it was reaching the end of its first major buildout phase of Verizon FiOS service and that the company was...
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New York Attorney General Looking Into DraftKings & FanDuel
With the higher profile of unregulated fantasy sports betting comes more scrutiny from the public and more concerns from law enforcement about how these businesses might be running afoul of the law....
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NYC Officials Grill Verizon About Incomplete FiOS Rollout
A few months back, the city of New York released a damning audit of Verizon’s FiOS rollout in the Big Apple. According to Verizon, they have met their obligation to bring service to New York as laid...
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If You Want To Use Amazon Fresh You’ll Have To Pay $299/Year For PrimeFresh...
How much are you willing to pay to have bags of fresh produce, and other grocery items delivered to your door anytime of the year? If you live in Seattle, Philadelphia, or New York, Amazon’s hoping...
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Settlement Between New York, Tobacco Companies Provides $550M For...
A decades-long dispute between the New York Attorney General’s Office and major tobacco firms over payments the companies were required to make for smoking-related public-health costs, but refused to...
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State Attorney General Wants To Know If New Yorkers Are Actually Getting The...
It’s a pretty basic tenet of American commerce: if someone advertises something to you at a certain price, they actually have to provide you that thing at that price. Like, for example, a broadband...
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Lyft Can Send You Free Zombies On Demand For Halloween
Companies that send vehicles on demand also enjoy giving people the ability to summon other things with the power of their smartphones, like when Uber let people in select cities summon puppies and...
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Lowe’s Agrees To $1.1M In Refunds Over Sketchy Flooring Installation Price...
When a company tells gives you a “per square foot” price for flooring, it would be nice to know if that means “per square foot of the floor(s) being covered” or “per square foot of the material ordered...
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New York Tells DraftKings & FanDuel To Cease Operations In The State
Almost a month after Nevada declared that daily fantasy sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel are unlicensed gambling operations and barred them from operating in the state, New York appears to have...
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The Law That Allows DraftKings & FanDuel To Exist May Be The One That Comes...
Earlier this week, the New York state attorney general’s office directed FanDuel and DraftKings to cease operating in the state after investigators concluded that these sites constitute a form of...
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DraftKings, FanDuel Ask Court To Overturn New York State Ban
As expected, fantasy sports businesses are fighting back against the New York state attorney general’s determination that DraftKings and FanDuel are actually illegal gambling sites and should not be...
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John Oliver Has Rewritten Those DraftKings & FanDuel Ads For You
With daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel in a high-profile legal battle with New York state over whether they are a form of unlicensed gambling or games of skill, HBO’s John Oliver has...
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Papa John’s Franchisee Gets Jail Sentence For Not Paying Minimum Wage
Earlier this year, the owner of nine Papa John’s franchises in New York City was brought up on charges wage theft for failing to pay his employees the legal minimum wage. As part of a plea deal, the...
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New York State Sues DraftKings & FanDuel Over Alleged Gambling, False...
One week after concluding that, according to New York state law, daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel are unlicensed gambling operations, the state has filed lawsuits against both...
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New York State Adds Yahoo To Inquiry Into Daily Fantasy Sports Sites
Four months after Yahoo announced it would offer sports fans the opportunity to make money by betting on professional athletes’ performances, the company became the latest target in a New York state...
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Customer Files Class-Action Against McDonald’s Operator Over Hepatitis A...
More than 1,000 diners at a New York McDonald’s may have been exposed to hepatitis A by an employee, a new potential class-action lawsuit against the operator of the fast food restaurant claims. The...
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DraftKings Tries To Make Its Case That Daily Fantasy Sports Are Not Gambling
A week after New York state sued DraftKings, alleging that the daily fantasy sports (DFS) site is an illegal gambling operation, DraftKings has filed a brief with the court to make its argument that...
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Walmart Employee Says He Was Fired For Waiting 30 Minutes To Turn In $350 He...
A maintenance employee for Walmart thought he was doing the right thing by handing over a stack of bills totaling $350 that he found discarded in the store’s parking lot. But instead of being thanked...
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