Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is currently investigating online guitar tutoring website TrueFire for failure to adequately safeguard consumer information, resulting in a data breach. On January 10th, 2020, Truefire discovered that a third party had taken advantage of a security vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to their computer system. Although TrueFire does not store customer […]
The law firm of Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is currently investigating reports that the newly-refreshed 2018 Apple 15-Inch MacBook Pro with the upgraded Intel Core i9 six-core processor is suffering from severe throttling problems that may result from thermal management issues. Throttling is a method of reducing processor speed (usually to reduce a device’s temperature), […]
Logitech Announces Plan to Disable Harmony Link Remote Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is investigating claims that Logitech will be essentially disabling its popular Harmony Link remote system on March 16, 2018. The Harmony Link remote system is a popular cloud based hockey-puck sized device that allows consumers to control home electronics like televisions and home theater […]
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, […]