2025-04-18
Motion for order to show cause: “Earlier today, the defendants sent out reduction-in-force notices to the vast majority of CFPB employees. Public reporting puts the total number of people terminated at approximately 1,400-1,500.” https://www.guptawessler.com/ ... [image]
Wired
Sources: the CFPB terminated more than 1,400 workers, leaving about 200 employees and effectively gutting the agency that Elon Musk previously said to “delete”
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,400 of the agency's 1,700 employees …
2024-08-12
Uber has a new way to silence survivors of sexual assault: by making it harder for them to get lawyers to sue the company. https://www.nytimes.com/... The Nevada Supreme Court will soon decide if Uber's initiative can go on the ballot. Read the appeal here: https://www.guptawessler.com/ ...
New York Times
How Uber, facing sexual assault litigation, spent millions trying to get a Nevada ballot proposal that would restrict the legal fees that bankroll many lawsuits
Jessica Silver-Greenberg / New York Times : X: @davidenrich , @jonathancohn , and @deepakguptalaw X: David Enrich / @davidenrich : Uber is facing hundreds of lawsuits by women who...
2021-06-16
Congrats @linamkhan! This is a great day for consumers, workers, and scrupulous businesses—and for everyone who cares about protecting our economy and our democracy from unchecked monopoly power. We @GuptaWessler are proud of our tiny firm's first Senate-confirmed alum! https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Biden names Lina Khan, an antitrust expert who wrote the “Amazon Antitrust Paradox”, as FTC chair, after the Senate voted 69-28 to confirm her as commissioner
Ms. Khan, who first attracted notice as a critic of Amazon, was confirmed by the Senate as a commissioner on the agency on Tuesday.
2021-04-09
Civil rights group sued Facebook for failing to remove anti-Muslim pages - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
Lawsuit alleges that, since 2017, civil rights groups have flagged hundreds of anti-Muslim Pages and Groups to Facebook, more than half of which stayed up
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post :
2020-06-24
Proud to be representing Open Technology Fund, its board members, and board members of Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks in a legal challenge to attempts to fire their leadership & politicize their operations. https://www.nytimes.com/...
The Verge
Open Technology Fund, the US digital speech advocate that funded Signal, faces turmoil after the abrupt firing of entire leadership team and resignation of CEO
'There are so many countries and individuals who need this support right now,' says former OTF president
2020-04-07
Great NYT story on poetic justice for corporations that try to thwart access to justice through forced arbitration: “[A]s companies face a flood of claims, they are employing new strategies to thwart the very process that they have upheld as the optimal way to resolve disputes.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
A look at law firm Keller Lenkner and startup FairShake, which file arbitration lawsuits against companies en masse, including 2K+ against DoorDash in one day
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