A former Portsmouth School District employee will likely have to pay a civil judgment as part of a lawsuit brought months after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a female student. Last month, a judge dismissed a major portion of the lawsuit, which …
The same company involved in the Greene County Fair Ferris wheel incident settled a lawsuit last year with a North Carolina family who was seriously hurt in an incident involving a ride malfunction at the North Carolina State Fair. Court documents show Family Attractions reached a confidential settlement with members of the Gorham family. Another company named …
A federal judge in Delaware has indefinitely postponed a scheduled September trial in a lawsuit pitting billionaire coal magnate and West Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee James Justice Jr. against a leading U.S. coal exporter. Attorneys for the Virginia-based Justice companies and Pennsylvania-based Xcoal Energy and Resources told the judge Friday that devastating floods …
The Sacramento City Council is looking at a $500,000 legal bill to defend a lawsuit filed by Curtis Park Village developer Paul Petrovich. The council will vote Tuesday on whether to spend up to that amount to pay outside law firm Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson. Supervising Deputy City Attorney Brett Witter said the figure will cover legal costs through a trial and, if necessary, an appeal.
An atheist group and a Tennessee sheriff have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over the latter’s Easter-themed message on Facebook this March, the Cleveland [Tenn.] Banner reported on Friday. The plaintiffs will be paid $15,000 in damages and their attorneys will recoup $26,000 in legal fees, paid out by a lawsuit-insurance fund paid into by local taxpayers, the newspaper noted. The …
Another lawsuit has been filed over the contaminated water from the West Morgan East Lawrence Water Authority. The lawsuit lists roughly 160 plaintiffs, all of them residents of Morgan or Lawrence Counties, and all of them customers of the West Morgan East Lawrence Water Authority. The defendants are 3M, the Dyneon Corporation, Daikin and the West Morgan East Lawrence Water …
A federal judge on Friday dismissed the NCAA from a lawsuit that had been filed against the association and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in connection with the academic scandal involving Tar Heels athletes. The case against the university remains in place, pending a jurisdictional …
Two separate lawsuits have been filed against a Jackson apartment complex following the May shooting death of a 19-year-old at the same time family members of the victim fight over who should be the executor of …
The family of a Gig Harbor man killed a year ago by a falling tree filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against eight companies involved with logging the site where the tree fell. Jennifer Lee Morgan, wife of Jamie Fay, 36, filed the suit in Pierce County Superior Court. Fay died Aug. 29, 2015, when an unseasonable windstorm toppled a Douglas fir tree that fell onto his car as he drove along …
A landowner couple in Bradford County, PA, Edward and Kathleen Ostroski, filed a royalty lawsuit against Chesapeake Energy claiming Chesapeake was screwing them out of money by conducting “creative” accounting and deducting expenses that shouldn’t be deducted. Seems like there’s hardly a state where Chessy drills where someone …