Tag: Customer
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Accounting Expert Was Not Fully Allowed to Opine on Calculated Future Lost Profits
Plaintiff Barrett Business Services, Inc. (“BBSI”) is a human resources management company that contracts with small and medium-sized businesses to provide human resource management solutions, including temporary staffing and professional services. It provided these services to employers throughout the Yakima area and particularly to fruit growers and other agricultural companies. On April 23, 2014, BBSI…
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Economics Expert’s Testimony on Operating System Failures Excluded
It all started when the Plaintiffs, Lance and Kevin McCulloch, purchased Chandler Gas and Store on May 27, 2021. They alleged that the Marathon’s mandated point-of-sale, back-office management system, and computer system (collectively, the “Required Operations System’), which controlled both the gas pumps and registers in the C-store, frequently malfunctioned. The Plaintiffs claimed that they…
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Forensic Accounting Expert Allowed to Testify Despite Lack of SQL Expertise
Plaintiff Pietoso, Inc. operates Café Napoli restaurant in Clayton, Missouri. It has a Service Agreement for waste removal from the restaurant with Defendant Allied Services, LLC—a subsidiary of Defendant Republic Services, Inc. The Service Agreement sets a basic-service rate of $323 per month, but it allows Allied to unilaterally increase this rate for certain enumerated…
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Economics Expert’s Testimony on Prime Enrollments and Cancellations Admitted
The Federal Trade Commission contended that Amazon tricked, coerced, and manipulated consumers into subscribing to Amazon Prime. According to the FTC, this was accomplished by failing to disclose the material terms of the subscription clearly and conspicuously and by failing to obtain the consumers’ informed consent before enrolling them. The FTC also alleged that Amazon…
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Numismatics Expert’s Testimony on the Proper Classification of the Coins Admitted
This is a fraud action the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and thirty States (collectively, the “government”) brought against Lucas Asher and Simon Batashvili (Individual Defendants) and the entities through which they operated. This case deals with Metals.com and the precious metals it sold to consumers from approximately 2017 to 2020. Through Metals.com, TMTE, Inc.,…
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Economic Damages Expert’s Customer-by-Customer Lost Profits Method Upheld
Sonrai specialized in data tools for waste collection companies. Heil, a well-known manufacturer of garbage trucks—referred to in the industry as refuse collection vehicles (RCVs)—entered into a written agreement with Sonrai in July 2014. The purpose was to facilitate the exchange of confidential information and explore a potential partnership, where Sonrai’s data product, “Vector,” could…
