Last week, the city of Mobile succeeded in preventing a jury trial in a lawsuit accusing the Mobile Historic Development Commission of selectively targeting business owners with violations for years while routinely ignoring violations committed by its own staff and board members. In 2012, the city initially brought a lawsuit against Walker Brothers Investments LLC after it was determined the …
COLUMBIA — The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday that Ryan Ferguson’s $100 million lawsuit against six people in the Columbia Police Department should not go forward because the defendants have qualified immunity. Ferguson was convicted for the murder of Columbia Tribune sports editor Kent Heitholt in 2005. He spent nearly 10 years of his 40-year sentence behind …
A university student has launched a class action lawsuit after B.C. slapped a 15 per cent property transfer tax on foreign homebuyers last month. Chinese student Jing Li, who studied at the University of Saskatchewan before moving to Metro Vancouver, filed the suit after she put a 10 per cent deposit on a $560,000 townhome in Langley, B.C., CBC News reported Monday.
Drug use in Hollywood is under a microscope again amid a new lawsuit that claims actor Jim Carrey used his “immense wealth and celebrity status” to illegally obtain and distribute potentially deadly substances to his girlfriend Cathriona White, who died of a suicidal overdose at age 30 last year. White’s estranged husband, Mark Burton, filed the suit Monday in Los Angeles. The suit also alleges …
Wells Fargo & Co customers aiming to sue the bank over bogus accounts opened in their names may be in for an unpleasant surprise: the fine print requires them to take their claims to an arbitrator instead of a court. Continue Reading Below Mandatory arbitration rules inserted into account-opening agreements prohibit customers from joining class actions or suing the third-largest U.S. bank in …
A scene from this year’s Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Photo by Mike DiNovo/USA TODAY Sports
NASCAR is being sued for $500 million on the grounds of racial discrimination. The racing organization quickly responded, calling the lawsuit “meritless” and threatening to file a countersuit for defamation.
Gov. Paul LePage has joined officials from 21 states – all but one controlled by Republican governors – to challenge in federal court a new U.S. Department of Labor rule that extends mandatory overtime to an estimated 4 million employees. LePage was named as an individual plaintiff, and did not represent the state as governor, in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Texas.
A central Texas school district will be the first to join parents in a lawsuit over STAAR testing. The small, embattled Marlin ISD has a lot riding on testing. It’s been failing for years.
Michael Picard was filming a protest near a police DUI checkpoint in West Hartford, Conn., in Sept. 2015 when troopers confiscated his camera. The ACLU says this recording proves the officers fabricated criminal charges against Picard. (ACLU-CT) Three Connecticut state troopers fabricated criminal charges against a man protesting at a DUI traffic checkpoint, according to a lawsuit filed against …
Under aggressive questioning by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass. ), Wells Fargo chief John Stumpf would not commit to pushing for the bank to rescind some of the approximately $100 million in compensation received by the executive who oversaw the employees who opened unauthorized customer accounts. Stumpf also said he never considered firing the executive, Carrie Tolstedt, who announced her …