Italy's Garante fined Wind Tre €16.7M for telemarketing and unseen contract activations
Wind Tre called people who objected and activated contracts without their knowledge; Italy's Garante fined it €16.7 million.
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3,222 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDTim Hortons told 500,000 players they won a boat; appeal court denied the class action
A misfired Roll Up To Win email told 500,000 players they had won a CAD $64,000 boat; the proposed class action died at Quebec's Court of Appeal.
Read the caseTesla Canada told to pay C$161,700 for Model X fire after data-free vandalism defense
A Quebec judge rejected Tesla's evidence-free claim that a Model X fire must have been vandalism and made it repay the insurer that covered the burned car.
Read the caseOrlando trucking owner billed USPS for freight routes never hauled — guilty plea
Farajov won hundreds of USPS Freight Auction routes, shipped some and marked the rest delivered — $1M-plus collected, guilty plea, $993,979 restitution.
Read the caseSephora sued over 1,600 skincare products marketed to tweens without age warnings
Proposed class action says Sephora sold acids and retinoids to tweens with no age warnings, months after agreeing with Connecticut to add under-13 labels.
Read the caseAGCOM fined Retelit and Tekmind €822,500 for unverified numbers behind spoofed calls
Italy's AGCOM fined two number assignees for not checking call-centre numbers they supplied; filters blocked 191 million spoofed calls in eight months.
Read the caseStellantis recalls 16,385 Ram 1500s over tire pressure sensors that may not warn
A tire-and-wheel assembly process change left TPMS sensors misreporting on 2026 Ram 1500s; dealers will inspect and replace them free of charge.
Read the caseLove and Deepspace posted mocktail recipes garnished with toxic Datura and flame lily
Papergames' official account invited fans to mix five slime-themed drinks, then had to warn them a day later that two garnishes are poisonous in real life.
Read the casePacifico sold a flat as two bedrooms — an unauthorised window cost it £34,000
A Cardiff developer's second 'bedroom' counted only because of an unauthorised Velux; when the council forced its removal, the buyer sued and won £34,142.
Read the caseAljawhara Gardens shisha director fined £4,978 after ignoring smoking-law warnings
Kensington Trading Standards repeatedly warned a South Kensington shisha lounge about indoor smoking — its director ended up convicted.
Read the caseNepal fined 14 ISPs Rs50,000 each for charging above approved rates
Days after the regulator said it had approved no tariff increases, NTA fined 14 ISPs for unapproved packages and overcharging, and ordered compensation.
Read the caseMichigan moved to revoke Kalamazoo Behavioral Health's license over patient falls
LARA's notice of intent cites 57 patient hospital transfers in five months, patients left unchecked, and a hip fracture that went undocumented for eight hours.
Read the caseMaharashtra FDA suspended Domino's Parel outlet's licence over ignored hygiene notices
An August improvement notice went unheeded; reinspection found veg and non-veg food in one freezer — Maharashtra FDA suspended the Domino's Parel licence.
Read the caseRegulator gave Heylo G4/V4, its lowest grades, after group subsidiaries failed
Four Heylo group companies went into administration; the regulator says the model cannot protect homes, tenants or taxpayers' interests.
Read the caseGerman court voids E.ON's district-heating price formulas in three supply areas
OLG Hamm found E.ON Energy Solutions' price-change clauses unlawful in three districts; 7,500 joined the model action and refunds await finality.
Read the caseEBR Management ran TheGrefg's Tesla raffle without a licence and got a €750,000 fine
A €1 digital wallpaper was the ticket to a Lightning McQueen Tesla draw; Spain's regulator called it an unauthorised raffle and fined EBR Management.
Read the caseCSGOLotto's owners promoted their own betting site as fans — FTC's first influencer case
TmarTn and Syndicate promoted CSGOLotto without telling viewers they owned 42.5% each — the FTC made them its first case against individual influencers.
Read the caseSunbeam recalled 900,000 Pioneer Woman Crock-Pots because the lids can overheat
Sunbeam's March 2021 recall covered 900,000 6-quart slow cookers whose lids could overheat near plastic and start fires; no serious injuries were reported.
Read the case34 states fined Coinme $2.5M and ordered its crypto kiosks shut over AML failures
A multistate examination found Coinme's bitcoin ATM business ran on ineffective KYC, SAR and monitoring controls — the price was the kiosk business itself.
Read the caseMaine hospital's stained sterile trays drew immediate jeopardy and a Medicare deadline
Inspectors found an unknown substance in every sterile surgical tray at a Maine hospital — a 'known issue' since 2023 that staff had never once acted on.
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