Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images(SAN JOSE, Calif.) -- The city of San Jose filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday against Major League Baseball, accusing the league of taking part in an illegal conspiracy to limit competition by blocking the Oakland Athletics from moving to San Jose.

The San Francisco Giants own territorial rights to San Jose and have objected to the potential move. The A’s claim those territorial rights were temporarily given to the Giants when they were trying to build a ballpark in San Jose in the early '90s. The lawsuit claims that territorial rights reduce competition and harm consumers.

“The lawsuit is an unfounded attack on the fundamental structures of a professional sports league," MLB said in a statement. "It is regrettable that the city has resorted to litigation that has no basis in law or in fact.”

The A’s have been playing in Oakland since 1968, when they moved there from Kansas City.

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PRNewsFoto/Chrysler Group LLC, Lily Kesselman(NEW YORK) -- After initially refusing to issue a recall because it disagreed with the government, Chrysler Group now says it will recall older Jeep Grand Cherokee and Jeep Liberty SUVs that could be at risk of fuel tank fires.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had called on Chrysler Group LLC to recall approximately 2.7 million Jeep Grand Cherokee and Jeep Liberty model cars after reports of numerous fuel tank fires in rear-end collisions.

The vehicles in question include Jeep Grand Cherokees built between 1993 and 2004, and Jeep Liberty model years 2002 to 2007.

The problem, according to the government, is the location of the fuel tank. It is situated behind the rear axle, and slightly below the bumper. That makes it vulnerable to rupture when the vehicle is hit from behind.

The NHTSA has said gas tanks on the SUVs can rupture, causing fires, and that 51 people have died.

Chrysler says its dealers will inspect the vehicles and add upgrades if necessary, but maintains that its older SUVs are not defective.

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Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama is sending a strong signal that Ben Bernanke will step down as chairman of the Federal Reserve when his term ends early next year.

“He’s already stayed a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to,” the president told Charlie Rose in an interview on PBS.  “Ben Bernanke’s done an outstanding job.”

Bernanke, who has been trying to prop up the U.S. economy since the end of the recession and financial crisis, is widely expected to leave his job at the end of January. 

Fed Vice Chairman Janet Yellin appears to be the leading contender to replace him.

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Michael Lavine/FOX(LOS ANGELES) -- Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has found himself in a kitchen nightmare. Former employees of his Los Angeles eatery are suing him for what they say are unpaid wages.

Four former employees of The Fat Cow restaurant filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming, among other things, that they were forced to work grueling eight-hour shifts without a meal break. They’re also alleging that hourly employees weren’t always paid their minimum wage of $8 an hour and denied overtime pay.

The plaintiffs say they were not provided with proper documentation for their hours worked and their compensation.

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“There were hand-written paychecks sometimes. There was … no accounting at all,” attorney Lauren Abrams, who is representing the group of former employees, said.

Ramsay, 46, has built an empire shouting expletives at aspiring chefs and struggling restaurant owners on reality-TV shows Kitchen Nightmares and Hell’s Kitchen. His fiery temper has contributed to his media appeal, but has also been the subject of much criticism.

A representative for Ramsay acknowledged the issue but pointed to previous management. “We are aware there was a problem with previous management, which has since been changed, but this is totally unacceptable if any truth to it,” the representative told ABC News.

Ramsay, who earned $38 million last year, does not run day-to-day operations at The Fat Cow, which opened in September.

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CEO Rujul Zaparde, 18, is one of three co-founders who launched FlightCar. (Courtesy Rujul Zaparde)(NEW YORK) -- Last year, three teenagers contemplated going to college or up-ending the airport rental car business.  They opted for the latter.

They were so positive that they had happened on a better business model than Hertz or Avis, that they turned their backs, respectively, on Harvard, Princeton and MIT -- the three institutions to which they had been offered admission.

The idea was this: At every major airport, acres of cars sit idle, left parked by owners who have jetted off.  Why couldn't these same cars be rented to arriving travelers?  Rates could be dramatically cheaper than those charged by traditional car rental companies, since, under this model, the rental company wouldn't have to pay for or maintain the fleet.

Owners would have a fourfold incentive to participate: free parking, a free car wash, a cut of the rental fee and a guarantee their car would be waiting for them when they returned.

With financing from investors, FlightCar, the trio's brainchild, began renting cars in February to passengers arriving at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), for rates starting as low as $21 a day, depending on the make and model of the car.

CEO Rajul Zaparde, 18, one of FlightCar's co-founders, tells ABC News the company already has signed up 1,400 owners and has arranged 1,500 rentals.

Until Zaparde hit rental car pay dirt, he had been headed to Harvard.  Now, he and co-founders Shri Graneshram, 19, and Kevin Petrovic, 19, have launched a second operation at Boston's Logan Airport.

"We're shooting for one more airport before the end of this year," says Zaparde.

Foes of FlightCar, however, have started to shoot back.

It's easy to see how traditional rental companies might not be amused to have their prices undercut.  But San Francisco International is crying foul, as well.

Doug Yakel, public information officer for SFO, tells ABC News that FlightCar refuses to play by the rules that govern other rental car companies.  It doesn't pay the same fees, he says, and it doesn't abide by the same regulations.

SFO's objections have taken the form of a complaint filed last month against FlightCar by the city attorney of San Francisco.

Zaparde says the airport's lawsuit stems from a disagreement over how to define FlightCar.

"They want to put us in the same bucket as traditional rental companies," he says.

FlightCar is a different animal from Avis or Hertz, he adds, and thus not subject to the same strictures.

For example, SFO wants FlightCar to pay it 10 percent of its gross profit and a $20 fee for each rental car transaction -- the same as what the airport gets from every other rental car company.

The fact that FlightCar operates from a base outside airport property, Yakel says, makes no difference: SFO has three other rental companies that also operate off-property.  According to the complaint, those three paid SFO over $2 million in fees in 2012.  FlightCar, too, should pay, thinks Yakel.

The fact that it does not gives FlightCar "an unfair advantage over similarly situated businesses that are forced to charge higher prices in order to operate lawfully and fairly," according to the complaint.

Deputy City Attorney Jennifer Choi tells ABC News that FlightCar's response is due on July 1, and that, if no resolution is reached by then, a court will decide if the company is in violation of California's Unfair Competition Law.  If found to be in violation, the company could be fined and/or shut down.

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iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Chilean nanny Felicitas del Carmen Villanueva Garnica, 50, says she was forced into "involuntary servitude" by a Manhattan couple who denied her food, medicine and fair pay.

Villanueva, who told the New York Post she was residing in the country illegally, filed a lawsuit against the Upper East Side couple who are originally also from Chile, Malu Custer Edwards, 28, and Micky Hurley, 35. Villanueva claimed that she had been "trafficked," forced to work 12-hour days and paid only $2 an hour. She also says that she was locked in a room with the couple's three children who often hit her and once "slammed a refrigerator door on her head so hard she nearly lost consciousness." The couple's lawyer refuted the claims of the lawsuit in an interview with the New York Post, calling them "completely without merit."

Whether or not Villanueva's claims are substantiated will be decided by the courts. But, exploitation of undocumented laborers is common in the United States and many victims, often scared to come forward for fear of deportation, lack means and incentive to fight abusive employers.

Take Josue Melquisedec Diaz, for example. An undocumented construction worker in New Orleans, Diaz says that when he complained to his boss that he and fellow undocumented laborers weren't provided safety gear to handle toxic materials that other workers were provided, his wages were cut in half. And when he pushed further, organizing a strike, his boss called in the police and strikers were placed in deportation proceedings.

A study by the National Domestic Workers Alliance found that 25 percent of domestic workers in California such as maids and nannies are paid below the state's minimum wage, and 24 percent of the workers who had been fired were discharged for complaining about unsafe working conditions.

For many exploited workers who are undocumented, there is no clear path for justice. Some find some relief in the U Visa, a program which provides temporary status to those who have suffered "substantial physical or mental abuse as a result of having been a victim of a qualifying criminal activity." But many labor abuses don't fall squarely in the U visa category, typically used to provide relief to women of domestic abuse.

For that reason, there's a provision in the immigration bill currently in Congress that would expand U visa qualifying crimes to include labor crimes, including workplace abuse and exploitation, known as the POWER Act.

Senator Robert Menendez, D-N.J., who co-sponsored the POWER Act, says that such legislation would not only protect undocumented immigrants but also help cut down on exploitative labor practices generally.

"When some workers are easy to exploit," Menendez told the Los Angeles Times, "conditions for all workers suffer."

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iStockphoto/Thinkstock(COBB COUNTY, Ga.) -- A former housekeeper violated the Waffle House chairman's privacy by recording sex tapes of the two in an attempt to show that he allegedly demanded sex acts from her, a Georgia judge ruled.

"The defendant's arguments that she was a victim of the crime of sexual battery and was permitted to record plaintiff's actions to gather evidence of a crime is extremely unpersuasive to the court," Cobb County Court Judge Robert Leonard II wrote in the order.

Joe Rogers Jr.'s former housekeeper accused him last year of demanding that she perform sex acts on him as part of her duties over an eight-year period.

Rogers has admitted to an affair with the woman but denied assault claims and said he was a victim of blackmail.

As part of the case, the judge seized sexual recordings of the two that included a video and about 15 audio recordings, according to court documents.

The videotape was viewed in a closed court hearing before the judge decided it was unlawfully recorded and did not show a sexual assault, court documents filed Friday, June 14 show.

"The video recording makes it clear that defendant was a willing participant in the sexual encounter and is not the victim of sexual battery," the judge wrote.

The judge's order allows for Rogers' attorneys to take a deposition from the woman, whom ABC News is not identifying because of the sexual harassment claims, to ask her specifically about the recordings.

"It's not a conclusive or final ruling," David Cohen, one of the woman's attorneys, told ABC News. "It's a preliminary ruling, and we will take a look at it and decide how to proceed forward."

"Our job as counsel is to fulfill our client's wishes to let her story be heard by a jury," he said.

For the first time, details of how the woman recorded the sexual encounter were revealed.

The court document says that the defendant's attorneys met with her in a private investigator's office where the investigator ordered her a "spy camera" -- a camera disguised as a cellphone -- that would be used for the recording.

The judge said that the court did not make any findings about the attorneys' involvement in making the recording but said the court might look into it.

Rogers' attorney did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.

The former housekeeper accused Rogers of forcing her to perform "various sexual acts on him as a condition of her employment," according to the police report filed Sept. 28, 2012.

Rogers said in a statement that over a nearly eight-year period in which he was "separated, single and remarried," he had a "series of infrequent consensual encounters" with the woman.

"That was wrong of me, and I am very sorry for the pain and embarrassment I've caused my wife and family," he said. "There is no excuse for what I have done."

Rogers said the housekeeper worked for him from 2003 until 2008, when she was let go. He said that she reapplied for her job and was rehired as his house manager in late 2009, working in that position until she resigned in June 2012.

Rogers said that in July 2012, he received a letter from the woman's attorney's "containing false allegations and strong threats," and wanting "millions of dollars" from him.

Rogers claimed that he shared a "threatening blackmail letter" with his wife and hired attorneys to investigate. He said he initiated court proceedings in September 2012 and that the housekeeper and her attorneys responded with false allegations and a false police report.

The Waffle House chain was started in the 1950s by Rogers' father, Joe Rogers Sr., in Decatur, Ga., and has more than 1,500 restaurants. It is privately held.

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