The case could pit the power of the judiciary against the authority of the prime minister. In the hall of London’s Inner Temple, a grand dining chamber with stained-glass windows and coats of arms adorning the walls, 300 lawyers assembled to …
The decision by the United States government last month to launch civil action to recover $1 billion in funds, said to have been looted from Malaysia’s state-owned investment fund, 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), has compounded pressure on Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down. Justice …
A Westmoreland County man is suing WTAE-TV and its parent company, Hearst Stations Inc., as well as reporter Marcie Cipriani, claiming his reputation was damaged by a news story concerning a marijuana arrest. The suit, filed in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court in June but removed to federal court last week, claims that a video report and a subsequent online version of it have damaged the …
The federal agency tasked with granting the U.S. Navy permission to use low-frequency active sonar for training, testing and routine operations in oceans around the world didn’t do enough to protect marine mammals, a panel of judges in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided recently. Advocates, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Humane Society of …
Attorneys for the plaintiffs steering committee (PSC) in the multidistrict class-action litigation over the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill have asked the presiding judge to approve $600 million in attorney and common plaintiff benefit fees, saying the reimbursement is warranted given the case’s staggering scope and complexity. When BP and the other companies involved in …
A former Chipotle worker is looking forward to a big payout from her past employer. According to the Washington Business Journal, a U.S. District Court jury in Washington, D.C., awarded Doris Garcia Hernandez $550,000 in compensatory and punitive damages this week after finding her former manager had discriminated against for being pregnant. Based on the filing, back in 2011, Hernandez informed …
Three groups representing minorities and civil rights interests are suing Gwinnett County in federal court, arguing the Board of Commissioners and Board of Education districts violate federal voting law. The Georgia NAACP, the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials and the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed the lawsuit Monday morning. The groups are accusing the county …
A Rochester man wrongfully convicted in a 40-year-old rape case has
been awarded $6.2 million. Feddie Peacock, 64, was convicted of first-degree rape in 1976. Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Michael Telesca denied the City
of Rochester’s attempts to have Peacock’s civil lawsuit dismissed.
The family of the Texas student who became known as “Clock Boy” has filed a lawsuit against a high school principal, the Irving Independent School District, and the City of Irving, TX. The lawsuit alleges the defendants violated the civil rights of Ahmed Mohamed (a.k.a. Clock Boy) in how they responded to the discovery of a homemade clock device Mohamed brought to school.
Anyone caught doping at this year’s Olympic Games in Rio will be punished. But at least these athletes won’t be in trouble for violating copyright law. The same can’t be said of those in the eSports arena, whose performance-enhancing methods are increasingly spelling lawsuits.