The parents of a young man who committed suicide last year after mistakenly believing he’d lost $730,000 on the trading app Robinhood are speaking out about their son’s failed attempts to contact the company. The 20-year-old Illinois trader, Alex Kearns, was notified after 11 p.m. on June 11 that his Robinhood account had been restricted and that he was required to purchase more than $700,000 in shares as part of a complex options trade, according to a lawsuit filed against the company this week.
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November 5, 2020
On Tuesday in a putative class-action complaint filed in California’s Santa Clara County Superior Court, plaintiff Nicholas Goglia sued Google alleging that it deceptively advertised its defective Pixel 3 phones and failed to honor its warranty.
Goglia brought this putative class action on behalf of individuals “who purchased first-generation Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL (collectively, ‘Pixel 3’) smartphones.” The plaintiff asserted that the Pixel 3 is “defective” because: “(1) the Pixel camera suffers from a malfunctioning autofocus feature, which causes the screen display to go black or the camera application to fail altogether; and (2) the Pixel’s battery drains at an accelerated pace after a short period of normal use, causing the phone to overheat and/or prematurely shut off.” The plaintiff claimed that these defects “are material and compromise the devices’ core functionality.” Specifically, Goglia proffered that Pixel