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17 Nov 8:16 am
Oral argument argued before the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on or about 11-17-2009
18 Jul, 2007 7:55 pm
... , Cingular Wireless, Target, Wal Mart, Clickspring, Vonage, and many other companies who allegedly caused unwanted pop-up ads to appear on his computer. He alleges ... very
significant. A copy of the trial court rule is pasted below: Burgess v. Am. Express Co., 2007 NCBC 15 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF POLK IN
THE GENERAL COURT ... more specific as to them. (See Answer of Def. Experian Information Solutions, Inc.; American Express Company, Inc.'s Mot. to Dismiss and Answer to Pl.'s Original Compl ...
15 Oct, 2008 12:08 pm
... . American Express Co., 541 F.3d 853, 855 (8th Cir. 2008). Defense attorneys moved to dismiss
American Express Company on the ground that it was not a
"creditor" within the meaning of TILA; plaintiff did not oppose the motion and the district court ... , and $5, in return for her participation in online surveys; the cards could be
used at any establishment that accepted American Express credit cards. Pleasants, at 855. Along with
the cards, AEIS sent plaintiff the "Card Terms and Conditions," which ...
28 Mar, 2007 5:28 am
... .D.N.Y. 2005). Thereafter, a class action was filed against American Express Company, American Express Travel Related Services Company and American Express Centurion Bank (collectively "Amex")
asserting the same claims ... that the antitrust allegations necessitated a jury trial on the issue of enforceability of the arbitration clauses in the cardholder agreements. Id.
American Express appealed, asserting appellate jurisdiction under section 16 of the Federal
Arbitration Act (FAA). Plaintiffs moved ...
22 Aug, 2007 1:12 am
In 2005, the Southern District of Florida approved the settlement of a class action suit alleging that the American Express Company violated state and federal law when it failed to disclose transaction fees associated with foreign
currency purchases. Objectors ... moved to dismiss the appeals. According to an article in the New York Sun, the decision to drop the appeals came after American Express "agreed to pay more than $3 million to drop appeals claiming that the deal shortchanged consumers."
The ...
14 Feb, 2008 9:08 am
... the software to credit card companies. After developing the software, Goetz mailed proposals to large credit card companies, including American Express. In these proposals, Goetz prominently displayed the slogan "My Life, My Card." On July 30, ... of
the services of the agency. The slogan was merely the creative work of the agency, and was used to entice credit card companies to use his services. Because Goetz never used the
slogan in commerce as a trademark, Goetz had no protection from trademark ...
29 Apr 9:28 pm
... should have interest payment have been? Answer: When dealing with credit card companies, forget what you think you know about math. I was charged $13.63 in finance ... I had
a pretty good idea how corrupt credit card companies are. Credit card companies like American Express are so corrupt and scummy that even I couldn't ... within the context of credit cards has such an unrealistic understanding of how credit card
companies opreate that their opinions are per se invalid. P.S. As a taxpayer, I bailed ...
1 Jul, 2008 3:36 pm
... jurisdiction over the matter. As diversity existed, the main consideration was the issue of amount in controversy. The court was satisfied by American Express's affidavit from its Vice President of Finance in which he stated that for the relevant time
period, the company's national revenue from purchase fees on gift cards totaled more than $5 million, and so did the monthly service fees it
collected on gift cards ...
28 Apr, 2008 10:00 am
... examines the way stock exchange independence rules influence director compensation. We are including companies from 2007's Fortune 100 and using information disclosed in each
... One can see some of the effects of these rules when looking at the director compensation table from American Express's (AXP-NYSE) 2008 proxy statement. Name Fees earned ... received $1,074,913 for "other compensation," which included personal use of company aircraft at $323,884 and a home security system for $126,992. Nearly ...
15 Sep, 2008 9:24 am
... for the "grand championship." (More here.) Why? AmEx won't say. Here is what seems to have happened: American Express had it's pre-selected list of 25 charities. Likely, people within the corporation had their pet ... is a personal choice, and one that should
generally not be criticized. That said, American Express committed fraud. First, they ran a "contest"
in order to generate PR for their company. People with no business relationship with AmEx were forwarding e-mails to each other. "Hey, go to
...
11 Nov, 2008 12:05 am
The Federal Reserve on Monday evening granted a request by American Express to become a bank holding
company, giving it access to low-cost financing from the Fed. The Fed said it had approved the application for American Express and a related company, American Express Travel Related Services, to become bank holding companies. The approval represented the
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10 Sep, 2008 6:28 am
There are few scams that I find more disturbing than those in the name of good, charitable causes. American Express, to promote how wonderful it is for humanity and to suck in as many people on the internet as possible to vote for the causes that are near ...
decision is theirs. According to the promo, Am Ex is giving $2.5 million, not exactly a huge sum for a company like AmEx, but nothing to sneeze
at for many of the projects that serve to eradicate disease or misery and are in desperate need of ...
15 Dec, 2008 9:38 pm
... believed were the most trustworthy and which did the best job safeguarding personal information. American Express earned the honor of Most Trusted Company for the fourth year in a row. Rounding out the top five were: eBay,
IBM, Amazon and ... "very important." Likewise, more than 60% of consumers surveyed said identity theft negatively affects their perceptions of a company. This survey reveals the economic importance of making privacy and data security a priority. Given the increasing reports of ...
20 Sep, 2006 12:50 pm
... sued for trademark infringement by a freelance art director. In his suit, Thomas O'Keefe alleges that the credit card company's ad tagline:
"My Life. My Card." is confusingly similar to his own copyrighted phrase: "My Card, my ... before over the tagline. In 2005, Stephen Goetz, a credit-card marketer in San Francisco
charged in federal court the company stole his idea for the "My Life. My card." The case was eventually dismissed. American Express representatives state the charges are without merit.
23 Apr, 2007 6:03 am
... Plaintiffs filed a class action in Illinois state court against various American Express Travel
Related Services Company alleging violations of the state's Consumer Fraud and ... Express Travel
Related Servs. Co., Inc., ___ N.E.2d ___ (Ill.App. March 29, 2007) [Slip Opn., at 1-3]. A defense ... In addition to profiting by charging each of its customers a 'fee' for the [foreign
currency exchange service], American Express also profits by skimming the difference between the
exchange rate it receives and ...
5 Nov, 2008 7:00 pm
... bought common stock between July 1999 and July 2001, brought a securities class action lawsuit against American Express ("Amex") and seven of its officers claiming securities fraud under section 10(b). In their ... intentionally acted fraudulently to benefit personally,
deliberately participated in illegal behavior, knowingly did not disclose inaccuracies in company financial statements, or recklessly failed
their duty to monitor. Plaintiffs claimed the incentive to increase compensation motivated ...
10 Aug, 2006 6:04 am
... Reversed A class action securities fraud lawsuit was filed against American Express and its
subsidiaries, and against individual corporate officers of those companies ("Amex"), arising from high-risk junk bond investments and allegedly false statements concerning the
profitability of those ... had not adequately pleaded the requisite scienter. The Second Circuit reversed and remanded. Slayton v. American
Express Co., ___ F.3d __, 2006 WL 2252510 (2d Cir. August 7, ...
8 Jun, 2007 12:58 am
... online communications), at the Edelman/PR Week New Media Summit for journalism educators, keeps referring to the company's credit card
holders as "cardmembers" - a longstanding practice at American Express that is one of my longstanding
peeves. I"m not a member of anything having to do with American Express. I'm a customer. Period. In a
world where community is starting to mean something again, the usage is more than annoying. It diminishes ...
10 Jan, 2008 1:27 pm
... Stanely warned of a recession on tuesday. To add another harbinger of doom to the list, American Express has recently issued a similar warning. Worst yet, the company, which is in a fantastic position to witness
consumer spending as it happens, says it ... signs of a weaker U.S. economy" that is impacting its cardholders' ability to make purchases and pay their bills. American Express said in a statement that it will take a pre-tax charge of approximately $440 million in its fourth
quarter, due to ...
25 Feb 9:20 am
... Circuit (which sits right here in Philadelphia) has just decided against American Express (AmEx)
and in favor of consumers like you with regard to the "fine print" ... . Homa (a New Jersey resident), tried to file a class action lawsuit against American Express, they claimed that the contract terms (that's the fine print) precluded Mr. ... than pursue his
claims in the free, open court system. Since the AmEx company that issued the card was really a Utah corporation, AmEx tried to cram down that
law ...
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