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Wawa Data Breach

Wawa, Inc. has confirmed that its payment card processing systems were hacked and that the credit card information for customers making purchases at any of its 850 nationwide locations was stolen. The malware was running on Wawa’s payment processing systems for over 9 months! It is estimated that more than

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Hidden Hotel Fees Violate Consumer Protection Laws

You go online and book a hotel room and get a great deal. You cannot believe you got a hotel in SOHO or Georgetown or Rittenhouse Square for so little money. But did you get a good deal? At checkout, you see “resort fee” or “destination fee” or “amenity fees”.

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Bitcoin Market Manipulation?

After the price of Bitcoin soared most of yesterday, reaching almost $14,000 per Bitcoin, the price began to drop around 4:25 p.m. EST. As the price began dropping, many owners of Bitcoin logged into their accounts on Coinbase.com to sell. Had they been able to sell, they would have reaped

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Spam Calls Lead to Large Class Action Settlements

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”)  prohibits auto-dialed robocalls without your permission. That probably comes as some surprise since you, like most other people with a cell phone, receive multiple robo calls per week. Those calls are against the law. There have been a slew of recent class action settlements

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What Every Non-Lawyer Should Know About the Law

Lawyers tend to forget that non-lawyers know very little about some legal issues or principles that we lawyers take for granted. Following are some of the common misunderstandings that non-lawyers (and even many practicing lawyers and judges) have about the law. Judges Decide Issues of Law and Juries Decide Issues

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Blow the Whistle on Government Fraud – Qui Tam Cases

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi just wrote a wonderful article entitled The Pentagon’s Bottomless Money Pit that shows how the Pentagon overpays, loses, and generally wastes billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars. As Taibbi writes, there is no incentive for the Pentagon to change because politicians receiving campaign money from military

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The Seventh Amendment Protects and Secures All Other Rights

What amendment found in the Bill of Rights protects all other rights? Some would say the Second Amendment. But there is an amendment that protects even the Second Amendment. It is the Seventh Amendment, which provides each of us with the right to a trial by jury. That right to

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