#class action

Bath and Body Works rewards has rolled out new terms and conditions that waive your legal rights. If you use the rewards program after April 15, you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms. I copied and pasted the legal terms below.

IMPORTANT LEGAL INFORMATION: PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. IT SETS FORTH THE LEGALLY BINDING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE MY BATH & BODY WORKS LOYALTY PROGRAM.

THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS A MANDATORY DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROVISION AND ARBITRATION AGREEMENT WITH A CLASS ACTION WAIVER THAT AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS. THIS ARBITRATION AGREEMENT REQUIRES THAT DISPUTES BE RESOLVED IN ARBITRATION OR SMALL CLAIMS COURT PROCEEDINGS, AND BROUGHT ONLY IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. IN ARBITRATION, THERE IS NO JUDGE OR JURY AND THERE IS LESS DISCOVERY AND APPELLATE REVIEW THAN IN A COURT PROCEEDING. PLEASE REVIEW THOSE SECTIONS CAREFULLY.

In other words, you cannot join a group that is suing Bath and Body Works. You have to sue them on your own, without a judge or jury, and there is less evidence they will have to hand over and less evidence review.

The link to the new terms and conditions is here: https://www.bathandbodyworks.com/m/rewards-terms-and-conditions.html?mi_u=200487600636&mi_ecmp=041526_nrdminc_xcat_loytsandcsupdate_ns_mktloymems_v10&mi_ign=4202615&cm_mmc=CH-_-041526_NRDMINC_XCAT_LOYTSANDCSUPDATE_NS_MKTLOYMEMS_V10-_-13141022-_-m1events&cm_lm=b2f4aff20882a7a28b5fc7f6b410def6225ad7c680cdf4aca4174cafcb474360&pb=041526_NRDMINC_XCAT_LOYTSANDCSUPDATE_NS_MKTLOYMEMS_V10_Variable21011483_Variable3Y__email_m1events&et_rid=226427462&persona=&best_affin=ss&LOY=Y&mi_cmp=11a45be01e5fb153~14530485~~~~~~&mi_sc=t

There’s a class action suit and Google just sent the email on how to claim money right to spam

A Donna, Texas family has filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, McAllen Division, challenging what they describe as an unlawful home entry by federal immigration agents. The case was filed on February 18, 2026. The filing not only details the family’s personal experience but also seeks certification of a nationwide class action targeting a federal…

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Class-Action Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Secretly Accessing Private WhatsApp Chats

https://amoghavarshaonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/class-action-lawsuit-accuses-meta-of.html

First, the Terms of Service was simple and legible. The point of them is that when you mark a message for moderation, you're marking it for violating a specific rule. Marking for hate speech was the same process as marking for harassment, stalking, NSFW, illegal activities, unmarked spoilers, and so on.

Second, there's a karma system. You log in, you get 1 karma per day. There's no Reddit-style upvotes; karma represents real time investment. Certain privileges on the site are tied to having a reasonable but real amount of karma, with the higher end here capping out at around 100 karma.

Thirdly, there were two tiers: moderators and administrators. Moderators are recruited from the ordinary userbase, while administrators, in this case, are probably a paid position, probably with direct accountability to human rights bodies, possibly one formed from the lawsuit itself.

While a moderator has the right to act unilaterally, a normal user can mark a message and in so doing add it to the moderation queue. A moderator's main responsibility is going down the moderation queue and either taking action or not; in the case of a no action the mark is removed.

A normal user has a Marked Message Accuracy stat tied to their account. If a moderator takes action on a message they mark, it improves their MMA, if they don't it hurts it. Users who frequently make false reports have their marks algorithmically throttled, users with high MMA have their reports moved to the front of the queue.

Moderators have a choice for what kind of action to take:

-Deletion without karma loss. Post removed, but no penalty to the user. -3 karma loss; slap on the wrist. -10 karma loss; more serious but won't be a major problem for long-term users with good records.

And if memory serves, more serious penalties, like more serious karma loss, longer-term suspensions, bans, and "axings", that is, banning all accounts tied to an IP, are reserved either for higher-ranking moderators or administrators. Your average Jill Terfbribes can't do it.

A user who has action taken against them has the opportunity to appeal it to multiple levels: first to the original moderator, then to a different moderator, and then to an admin.

The iconic form rejection response here was "This is a clear and flagrant violation of the TOS; there is absolutely no question of this. Please re-read the TOS rule in question." But overturns were frequent.