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The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day
Online searching makes it easier to connect with companies offering job opportunities. But you can just as easily connect with scammers who seem to be offering legitimate jobs—including executive positions. But after taking your money, it turns out they offer nothing but empty promises. Click here for more.
Robocalls don’t just target American consumers
Spam robocalls are not just an annoyance for U.S. consumers. A new report by Hiya, a call-blocking app company, shows it’s a global problem. The company’s first Global Robocall Radar Report, released at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, estimates that machine-generated spam calls grew 325 percent to 85 billion worldwide. The report was compiled using an analysis of more than 12 billion calls per month worldwide. It found that Spain, the UK, Italy, France, Argentina, and the United States receive the lion’s share of these nuisance, and often fraudulent, calls. Click here for more.
Your Money
Frugality sometimes gets a bad rap. It's often seen as self-sacrifice. Frugal behavior is often viewed as giving up things you really care about in order to save a trivial amount of money. It's often seen as being the opposite of fun. Those characteristics might be accurate if frugal behavior is taken to an extreme. But those extremes undermine what frugality is all about. Frugality is actually about aiming to get maximum value out of your money. It doesn't mean that you don't spend money on things that are important to you. It means that you don't spend money on things that are not important to you. Click here for more.
For the Lawyers
Missed appeal deadline cannot be extended. The U.S. Supreme Court on ruled that an appellate court may not extend a missed deadline to appeal an order that decertified a class, saying that the rules of procedure are not that flexible. In a unanimous opinion by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the high court said that there's no basis for the Ninth Circuit to forgive a late petition to decertify a class of consumers alleging that Nutraceutical Corp. falsely advertised its Cobra Sexual Energy "aphrodisiac" supplement. The high court found that the 14-day deadline under Rule 23(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure cannot be extended. NUTRACEUTICAL CORP. v. LAMBERT Click here for more.