A new lawsuit claims the screenwriter behind two X-Men films and Watchmen and a colleague conceived the concept for the prison preparation buddy comedy Get Hard, but didn’t get credit or payment. Writer/casting director Tamer Howard is suing prominent talent managers Jimmy Miller and Julie Darmody for breach of confidence, according to a complaint filed Friday in L.A. County Superior Court. …
The system, as outlined in a lawsuit filed by the New York State attorney general, was as simple as it was flawed. A pizza is ordered from Domino’s. A pizza is made.
A Texas patent troll under the name Corydoras Technologies LLC that first sued Samsung in March is now suing Apple with a series of patents that they acquired from Japan which they claim are “presumed valid.” The company claims that 20 specific models of Apple’s iPhones and iPads infringe on various claims of their patents in respect to cameras, call blocking, FaceTime calling and more. More …
A Rockhurst University employee hopes to represent some 1,200 school staffers in seeking damages for a data breach last month. Someone duped university staff into supplying information on IRS W-2 forms, including Social Security numbers, in an act of fraud April 4. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court by Alexandria Stobbe said the university was willful and reckless in …
A $375 million settlement will end the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant’s 26-year legal battle with thousands of Colorado homeowners, if approved by a federal judge. About 15,000 land- and homeowners in the Westminster and Arvada area will get damages from Dow Chemical Co. and Rockwell International Corp., co-owners of the Rocky Flats plant that made triggers for nuclear warheads …
How well does your fitness tracker work? Millions of us count on them to track our every move. The newer ones are supposed to measure heart rate, but a new class-action lawsuit claims the tracking technology does not do as well as Fitbit’s maker says.
A Texa girl, 12, was injured by rope around her neck during an overnight campout with her sixth-grade classmates. (Photo : Joe Raedle/Getty Images) A Texas mother filed a lawsuit against a private school after her black 12-year-old daughter came home from an overnight school outing with severe neck burn. She suspected that her daughter was a victim of a racially motivated bullying, however, …
Posted on Sunday, May 22nd, 2016 by Ethan Anderton Just before 2016 began, the producers of a crowdfunded Star Trek fan film called Axanar received some bad news in the form of a lawsuit from Paramount Pictures. At the core of all the legal mumbo jumbo, the lawsuit claimed ,”The Axanar Works infringe Plaintiffs’ works by using innumerable copyrighted elements of Star Trek, including its …
Bolstered by a recent court ruling in Kearney’s favor, her lawyers say they’ll vigorously push for sworn statements from Brown, former athletic director DeLoss Dodds, former school president Bill Powers and current women’s athletic director Chris Plonsky over how school officials handled both cases. “We will go as high as we have to go,” Kearney attorney Jody Mask said. “No one will be off …
A Washington man who was repeatedly punched, Tasered and bit by a police K9 during a 2014 arrest will get a $100,000 settlement for the beatdown. The city of Tukwila, Wash., agreed to settle the civil rights lawsuit filed by Linson Tara, who was the victim of excessive force when cops attempted to arrest him for yelling and screaming in a UPS freight yard. The suit not only won Tara …