| Volume 119 Number 8 |
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The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day
Your hard work, money saving and budget-minded spending can be wiped out quickly by scammers. A good defense may be the best offense against scammers, because it can be time consuming and downright maddening to try to sort out the details and recover lost money. With that in mind, here are five ways seniors are targeted by predators and how people can protect themselves.
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Amazon Offers Full Refunds on Hoverboards
Do you know anyone who received a hoverboard for Christmas? Be careful because the popular electric self-balancing riding device has caused multiple fires and explosions. Amazon is now offering full refunds for customers who bought hoverboards.
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More than 60% of adults own at least one credit card. Credit cards can help you build and maintain good credit, but only if you use your cards responsibly and pay your bills on time each month. Follow these tips to help maintain good credit anytime you use your credit card. Click here for more.
For the Lawyers
Supreme Court Holds Offer of Judgment Does Not Moot a Class Action. The United States Supreme Court held that a class-action defendant cannot moot a plaintiff’s case by making a pre-class certification offer of judgment that would satisfy the individual plaintiff’s personal claims but not those of the class. The decision holds that such an offer does not moot the individual plaintiff’s claim because, if the plaintiff rejects it, the offer is a nullity and does not deprive the court of the ability to grant relief between the parties. In other words, a court can still award whatever damages, injunctive relief, and other relief the plaintiff seeks if the plaintiff proves his claims. Thus, the case does not meet the Supreme Court’s definition of mootness, under which a case is moot “only when it is impossible for a court to grant any effectual relief whatever to the prevailing party.” If the individual plaintiff’s claims are not moot, he can pursue class relief as well, because “a would-be class representative with a live claim of her own must be accorded a fair opportunity to show that certification is warranted.” Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez Click here for more.