The certification of class action status to current and former gold mineworkers suffering from silicosis and tuberculosis against over 30 historic and current gold mining companies in South Africa potentially opens the door for similar litigation across several sectors, including coal and manganese. Law firm Fasken Martineau partner Paul Fouché explains that there is common ground between the …
A family is suing a Florida hospital where staff reported finding maggots while examining a 76-year-old woman. The children of Dorothy Mooneyham of Orange Park seek over $15,000 damages from the Orange Park Medical Center. In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Clay County, Mooneyham’s children say the hospital abused and neglected a vulnerable adult and intentionally inflicted emotional distress.
Seven insurance companies that paid claims to cover property and vehicle losses in the 2014 Rising Eagle Road Fire have sued a Mazama couple whom they allege caused the fire through their …
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY In re: OCEAN POWER TECHNOLOGIES, Case No. 14-3799 (FLW) (LHG) INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION TO: ALL PERSONS OR ENTITIES WHO PURCHASED OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRED OCEAN POWER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (“OPT”) SECURITIES BETWEEN JANUARY 14, 2014 AND JULY 29, 2014, INCLUSIVE, AND/OR PURCHASED OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRED OPT SECURITIES PURSUANT TO AND/OR TRACEABLE TO …
The company that manages a Greenville apartment complex will pay $40,000 to settle a racial harassment and …
A federal appeals court has reinstated a retaliation lawsuit filed by a post office employee who was fired after she refused her supervisor’s requests to give him a picture of herself in a bikini. Hillary A. Kacian, a worker at the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, post office, said after she refused requests by her supervisor, George LaRue, to provide the photo, he began …
Jerry Heller wasn’t pleased about how he was portrayed in the recent N.W.A biopic, Straight Outta Compton, so he sued the filmmakers, including Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Eazy-E’s estate for $110 million. In a recent motion, U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald says the lawsuit can move forward, according to Billboard. Heller blasted the entire movie, claiming defamation against his character and …
Attorneys for the family of a woman who died in one of Michael Morton’s nursing homes filed arguments and hundreds of pages of sworn testimony Wednesday in an attempt to keep a corruption lawsuit against Morton and lobbyist Gilbert Baker alive. Among those giving depositions under oath to attorneys gathering information for the lawsuit were Morton; Baker; lobbyists Bruce Hawkins and …
Oracle is set to appeal a decision which, if it stands, will require Big Red to make a US$3 billion contribution to HPE’s top line. HP launched the action in Oracle’s 2011 decision to quit developing software for Intel’s Itanium processors. Oracle believed there was no future in the Itanium architecture, but HP pressed ahead (it still uses the architecture in its Integrity Superdome family).
Liquidating retailer USA Discounters will offer debt relief to settle litigation accusing it of scamming its Colorado customers, including military service members. The defunct retailer, accused in multiple states of unfair financing terms and improper debt-collection efforts, particularly against military members, is asking the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., to authorize a …