Charlottesville’s Legal Aid Justice Center is challenging a system that they say is punishing the poor. It’s filed a class action lawsuit in federal court, asserting that Virginia is crippling hundreds of thousands of low-income residents by suspending their driver’s licenses for failure to pay court costs and fines. Legal Aid says our current approach is simply unconstitutional.
A complaint filed on behalf of thousands of former Stanford University football players alleges the university, the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Pac-12 Conference knew that football players were in danger of permanent brain injuries but did not protect the players so as to “protect the very profitable business of ‘amateur’ college football.” Chris …
Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on behalf of purchasers of Lipocine, Inc. (“Lipocine” or the “Company”) (LPCN) between June 30, 2015 and June 28, 2016, inclusive (the “Class Period”). Shareholders who have purchased …
Second Valve lawsuit includes CSGOLotto’s Martin and Cassell as defendants Posted By: Peter Parrish July 8, 2016 A second class-action lawsuit, filed against Valve in Florida on 6 July, has been updated to include CSGOLotto owners Trevor ‘TmarTn’ Martin and Tom ‘ProSyndicate’ Cassell as defendants. Much like the first lawsuit (brought by Connecticut resident Michael John McLeod in June), this …
If you purchased shares of Tangoe and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, …
A former BYU football player is suing BYU, the Western Athletic Conference and the NCAA for $5 million in damages for “their reckless disregard for the health and safety of generations of BYU student-athletes.” Larry Carr — a star linebacker who was a member of BYU’s WAC-champion 1974 team that played in the Fiesta Bowl — and his attorneys allege that the school knew the dangers posed to …
Billabong is paying out $45 million to end a shareholder class action over earnings downgrades which saw the surf clothing company’s share price tumble in 2011. A short time ago, Billabong shares were down 0.76% to $1.31, well down on the 12-month …
The guardian of a 14-year-old Los Angeles boy is filing a class action lawsuit against Snapchat, alleging the social media company is violating online decency laws. The lawsuit alleges that the company is intentionally exposing minors to offensive and sexually offensive content without warning, in violation of the Communications Decency Act. ADVERTISEMENT The lawsuit specifically called out …
Earlier this year, Voltage Pictures, which previously engaged in a lengthy court battle to require Canadian ISPs to disclose the names of alleged file sharers, adopted a new legal strategy. While the company obtained an order to disclose names in the earlier case, it came with conditions and costs. Its latest approach involves filing a reverse class action lawsuit against an unknown number of …
Google and Viacom on Monday defeated an appeal in a nationwide class action lawsuit by parents who claimed the companies illegally tracked the online activity of children under the age of 13 who watched videos and played video games on Nickelodeon’s website. By a 3-0 vote, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., and Viacom Inc. …