Lawyers dream about doing little to no work and getting paid a fortune for the work they didn’t do. A group of hotshot securities lawyers recently was on the verge of just such a payday. They stood to collect $370,000 in legal fees for work that didn’t benefit their clients one iota.
Two months after the federal and state governments sued Carolinas HealthCare System over alleged antitrust violations, a San Francisco-based plaintiffs’ law firm has announced it’s looking for people who might have been harmed and could sue for related damages. In a notice on its website, the 65-lawyer firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein says it’s investigating the Charlotte-based …
Scott Dodich and Jayme Gotts-Dodich have a clear message for the Pokémon Go players who have invaded their local park and private cul-de-sac in St. Clair Shores, Michigan: Get off of their lawn! Also, don’t park in front of their driveway and those of their neighbors, and don’t trample their landscaping and look in their windows — and, when they ask you to leave their property, don’t yell, …
Goldberg Law PC (the “Firm”) announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against SolarCity Corporation (“SolarCity” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: SCTY). Investors who purchased or otherwise acquired shares between May 5, 2015 and February 9, 2016 inclusive (the “Class Period”) are encouraged to contact the Firm in advance of the October 14, 2016 lead …
The complainant is Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW), which was a top-10 wholesale mortgage lending firm. The trustees of the company are accusing PwC of negligence in their audits of TBW’s lender, Colonial Bank. In an agreement between the top management of the borrower and the bank, starting from 2002, TBW chairman Lee Farkas sent mortgage data to Colonial Bank for fake loans or those the company …
Vecchione signed a consent decree on July 7 with the state Board of Dentistry to use best practices in sanitation and to make immediate sanitation improvements. The consent decree says that Vecchione fully cooperated with the investigation and that the probe didn’t find that conditions at the clinic had caused the infections. During its investigation, the state Department of Health determined …
The Toronto District School Board and an elementary school principal said they behaved like a “prudent parent” to protect two students, despite claims that the children faced repeated threats and assaults inflicted by a classmate with special needs. In a statement of defence filed earlier this month in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the school board and the principal at John Wanless …
On Monday, The Office of The Texas Attorney General and the University of Texas at Austin asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit seeking to stop “campus carry”. The lawsuit was brought on from three current UT Austin faculty members: Professors Jennifer Lynn Glass, Lisa Moore and Mia Carter. The three professors sued the state of Texas and the Austin-based university in order to bar …
Fourteen parents whose children were retained in third grade after they “opted out” of Florida’s standardized tests filed a lawsuit this week, saying their rights were violated by confusing standards that rely too much on a single exam. The lawsuit says Education Commissioner Pam Stewart, the state Department of Education, the state Board of Education and several local …
The siblings of quadruple-murder suspect Nicolas Holzer filed a lawsuit in Santa Barbara County Superior Court last week aiming to prevent him from inheriting property or other assets from the trust of his deceased parents, whom he is accused of killing. Holzer faces four murder charges for allegedly murdering his parents and his two children: William Charles Holzer, 73, Sheila Garard Holzer, …