California-based Goldberg Law PC can be contacted at 800-977-7401 or via email at [email protected]. Posted: Thursday, March 17, 2016 12:00 am California law firm investigating class action case against Williams PartnersBy CASEY SMITH World Business Writer TulsaWorld.com | 0 comments Goldberg Law PC is investigating claims of potential misrepresentations by Williams Partners L.P., …
Class-action lawsuits are commonly settled for things that benefit the lawyers bringing them, not the class of allegedly victimized people they are supposedly suing on behalf of. A classic example is Frank v. Poertner, pending before the Supreme Court. Ripped-off class members asking the Supreme Court to hear their challenge to a class action settlement that awarded class lawyers $5.7 million, …
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with thousands of workers at an Iowa pork processing plant who had sought to band together in a single lawsuit to recover overtime pay from Tyson Foods. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority in the 6-to-2 decision, said the plaintiffs were entitled to rely on statistics to prove their case. The ruling limited the sweep of the …
Michael Grothaus03.21.16 8:27 AM If Lyft drivers were considered employees of the ride-hailing company—rather than independent contractors, as they are currently classified—they would have been paid a total of $126 million more over the last four years, Reuters reports recent court records show. The $126 million figure is related to expense reimbursements Lyft drivers could claim if they were …
The grief of families who lost loved ones when a suicidal co-pilot crashed a Germanwings plane into the French Alps has long turned to anger, a year after the tragedy that claimed 150 lives. Many relatives have banded together with plans to take the airline’s parent company Lufthansa to court in the United States, arguing that the depressive 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz should never have been …
A group of Flint, Michigan, parents and their children filed a class action on Monday alleging that gross negligence by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and others caused the city’s drinking water to become contaminated with lead. The lawsuit was filed in Detroit federal court and seeks damages for a proposed class of “tens of thousands” of Flint residents and property owners who have suffered …
What you can claim depends on which services you were signed up to at the time of the attack and the choices you made at the start of last year. If you grabbed a free game as part of Sony’s “Welcome Back” promotion shortly after the attack, you’ll get one more, if not, you can pick two up now. The list includes games like inFamous, LittleBigPlanet and God of War HD Collection but they’ll only …
Chipotle returns to crisis mode with confirmed norovirus By Susan Young | Posted: March 10, 2016 The calendar hasn’t been kind to Chipotle. Exactly one month after the Mexican fast-food chain temporarily closed all of its U.S. restaurants to hold staff meetings on food safety, the ugly norovirus has reared its ugly head. On Tuesday, a restaurant in Billerica, Massachusetts, voluntarily shut …
Some are saying Jessica Alba’s company lies about what it puts in its products. This time, The Honest Company’s laundry detergent takes center stage and is made of one ingredient the brand claims it doesn’t use. Buzz60
A Lackawanna County judge issued a mixed ruling Tuesday in a lawsuit that challenges Scranton’s rental registration fee, finding that individual landlords cannot proceed as a class to recover excess fees they contend are illegal. The decision by Judge Terrence Nealon does not end the case, however. He must still decide whether to certify the lawsuit as a class action relating to the underlying …