Asus GL502 Investigation of Battery Drainage and Thermal Throttling Asus GL502 Owners Report Battery Drainage, Even When Plugged In To Power Source Concerned GL502 owners have been reporting for several months that the GL502VS laptop can lose battery even when plugged in to an electrical outlet. Consumers have also reported significantly reduced computing performance or […]
UPDATE (10.24.2018): The Italian government fines Samsung 5 million euro for releasing a software updated that led to malfunctioning Note 4 phones. The full Italian press release can be found here. UPDATE (8.8.2017): On behalf of three consumers, Migliaccio & Rathod LLP has filed a nationwide class action against Samsung. You can read the 37-page […]
Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is investigating potential legal claims against Hyland’s for its “homeopathic” teething tablets, which according to adverse event reports from the FDA, have been linked to 400 instances of serious infant illnesses, including seizures and vomiting, as well as 10 deaths. On April 7, 2017, the FDA requested that Hyland’s Baby Teething Tablets […]
Restaurant servers are frequently victims of wage theft. Federal law, as well as most states’ laws, allow servers to earn a tipped minimum wage that is lower than the standard minimum wage. In Washington D.C., for example, restaurants only have to pay servers $2.77 an hour, rather than the minimum wage of $11.50 per hour, […]
In a landmark ruling last month, Judge Benita Y. Pearson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ordered that the City of Cleveland be forever barred from (1) using hoses to delouse (spray for lice) inmates, and (2) conduct group strip searches without appropriate privacy partitions. Atttorneys at Migliaccio & […]
Has your boss recently informed you that you are being transitioned from an exempt position in the company to a non-exempt position? In other words, has your boss said you will get overtime pay for hours you work over 40 in the future even though you never got overtime pay in the past? If that […]
On September 19, 2014 then-mayor Vince Gray signed the District of Columbia Wage Theft Prevention Amendment Act into law. It became effective on February 26, 2015. The law made several significant changes to previous wage and hour law that will bolster the rights of workers in the District for years to come. Some of the […]
Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is investigating reports that batteries in Surface Pro 3 laptops are holding almost none of their charge. Consumers have relayed that the laptops, which have Simplo batteries installed, substantially and progressively degrade over time to the point where they are virtually nonfunctional. While all batteries can be expected to experience reduced […]
Attorneys Nicholas Migliaccio and Jason Rathod, and their client Chito Peppler, were featured in a Washington City Paper article about wage theft in the sharing economy. The article profiled Mr. Peppler’s wage theft case in Washington D.C. against Postmates, an on-demand courier service that classifies its employees as independent contractors. The suit alleges that couriers, […]
Migliaccio & Rathod LLP currently represents a class of females admitted to Franklin County (which includes Columbus, Ohio) Corrections Center Two, commonly known as “Jackson Pike.” Class members were admitted between May 23, 2011 and April 30, 2014, and charged only for minor crimes but subjected to the practice of having tattoos on their private […]