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As everyone recovers from the damage caused by Harvey, legal issues will arise. If you want information about your legal rights call 713-743-2168. To sign up for a special Harvey’s People’s Law School to be held on September 30th, visit www.peopleslawyer.net.
The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day
Today, cyber crime is a big deal. If you think you have been a victim of Internet crime, the FBI wants to hear from you. File a complaint Click here for more.
Watch out for scammers pretending to be from Equifax
The phone call appears to be from Equifax, but you might not think that's unusual since you recently signed up for free credit monitoring after you learned your credit file may have been compromised. But hold on, is Equifax really going to personally call all 143 million consumers potentially exposed in this massive data breach? No they are not. The person on the other end of the line is a scammer. If you have enrolled online in Equifax's free credit monitoring service, the final step will be an email from the company, not a phone call. If someone calls you asking for personal information, hang up.
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For the Lawyers
Uber arbitration clause enforceable. Plaintiff filed a putative class action alleging that Uber engaged in illegal price fixing. The district court denied Uber's motion to compel arbitration, holding that plaintiff did not have reasonably conspicuous notice of and did not unambiguously manifest assent to Uber's Terms of Service when he registered. The Second Circuit vacated the district court's judgment, holding that the Uber App provided reasonably conspicuous notice of the Terms of Service as a matter of California law, and plaintiff's assent to arbitration was unambiguous in light of the objectively reasonable notice of the terms. The court remanded to the district court to consider whether defendants have waived their rights to arbitration and for any further proceedings. Meyer v. Uber Technologies, Inc., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 15497 (2d Cir. Aug 17, 2017). Click here for more.