Archive for the ‘Lawsuits’ Category
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
UPS has sued a New Jersey lawyer, Samuel Z. Brown, of The Law Offices of Samuel Z. Brown - for supposedly infringing on UPS's trademarks involving the color brown, including the use of Sam's last name in the domain for his firm's website.
From The Daily Report:
UPS objects to Brown's Web ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Daniel Peterson of Redwood will collect more than a quarter of a million dollars in damages after the company and Peterson reached a settlement in a lawsuit he filed last year. United Package Smashers previously wrote about the incident here. Peterson, a UPS Mechanic, was fired after he put unsafe ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Documents recently filed show UPS is taking steps to settle a lawsuit filed by a mechanic for the company who complained about unsafe UPS trucks. The mechanic, having found cracked or rusted frames on at least four UPS trucks, removed inspection certifications for those trucks and was fired four days ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
UPS Driver Paul Warren, 43, of Rockport, Maine filed a lawsuit against UPS after he was diagnosed with epilepsy. He won a jury verdict against the company back in 2007, now the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has upheld the riling. The crux of the issue involves ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
When Bridgette Waller opened her Mail Boxes, Etc. (MBE) franchise here 14 years ago, she was so successful that the company made her the star of a television commercial complete with a tagline, "Can your mailbox do that?"
Waller's first years as a Mail Boxes Etc. franchisee were so profitable that ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
When Dale Martinez opened the first of his four Mail Boxes Etc. (MBE) stores in suburban Reedley in 1995, he looked forward to building a family-based business that would make his life a reflection of the "American Dream." Today, that dream has turned into a nightmare of conflict with United ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by a lower court that declared that a Seventh-day Adventist worker was discriminated against for not working on Sabbath. Former driver for United Parcel Service (UPS), Todd Sturgill of Springdale, Arkansas, will keep his award of nearly US$104,000 in lost wages ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
For the last dozen years, Chris May was a key part of her town's holiday shipping frenzy. Her United Parcel Service (UPS) Mail Boxes Etc. store in Strongsville was the local "go to" stop for regular mail services and those angst-ridden last-minute dashes to get Aunt Maude's package in the ...
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