Legal
November 3, 2011
A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation yesterday that would undertake a sweeping restructuring of the U.S. Postal Service, aiming to put the ailing organization back on the path to financial stability.
November 3, 2011
Syms, the discount department store chain which operates 25 Syms and 21 Filene's Basement stores, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday and said it would shut down all of its stores by the end of January 2012.
November 1, 2011
An immigration activist is calling it a victory after convincing online retailer CafePress to remove "racist" merchandise. Designed to look like an actual permit to "hunt illegal aliens," immigration rights activist Victor Hoelscher, along with hundreds of others, petitioned CafePress to get the items removed.
October 31, 2011
A retail industry group asked the U.S. government to delay plans to expand the internet’s address system, saying store owners need more time to assess the impact of adding hundreds of web suffixes such as .bank and .nyc.
October 28, 2011
Women pursuing discrimination claims against Wal-Mart filed a reformulated lawsuit Oct. 27 alleging the world's largest retailer treats its female workers in California unfairly. Plaintiffs alleging that the company denied them pay raises and promotions because of gender bias are regrouping after the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled a class of up to 1.5 million current and former Wal-Mart workers in June.
October 27, 2011
Looks like the couple who attempted to trademark "Occupy Wall Street" earlier this week aren't the only people trying to make a buck off of the protests. An Atlanta man is trying to get his own related trademark: The words "occupy this" with an arrow pointed down.
October 27, 2011
The owner of Price Chopper supermarkets is suing the operator of ShopRite after searches for “Price Chopper” on Google and other search engines turned up ads for ShopRite. Price Chopper’s parent, Golub Corp., filed the action late last week in U.S. District Court in Albany.
October 26, 2011
It was only a matter of time before opportunists started to look for ways to cash in on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Now both the 99 percent and the 1 percent are trying to claim 100 percent of the movement.
October 25, 2011
Wal-Mart stores in the Chinese city of Chongqing reopened to surging crowds today, two weeks after being shut down by local authorities for violating food and product standards.
October 24, 2011
Consumers should be prepared to start seeing sales tax collected on more and more of their online purchases as cash-strapped states look for additional sources of revenue, says tax industry research group CCH, a Walter Kluwers business.
