The National Football League may be hoping this case gets swept under the rug and isn’t met with much public consumption moving forward. But a group of former NFL players and their lawyers are resilient in their efforts to not only bring the concussion issue to light, but force the league to pay out a larger sum. A settlement agreed to by the NFL and former players required the league to pay …
U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan ruled on September 28 that a class-action lawsuit filed in March against Henry Schein, Patterson Companies, and Benco Dental can proceed. “Plaintiffs have sufficiently alleged that defendants orchestrated a single interconnected nationwide conspiracy not to compete on price with the common goal of driving up margins and preventing competitive upstarts from …
It may yet be that Gov. Nathan Deal and his supporters in the General Assembly won’t get away with the attempted deception of voters concerning the proposed constitutional amendment authorizing the state to take over public schools deemed to be failing. A group of voters has filed a class action lawsuit asserting the ballot language for Amendment 1 is “misleading, subjectively worded and …
A federal judge on Monday dismissed three of 11 counts in a lawsuit filed last year by a gay former D.C. police officer accusing fellow officers and supervisors of subjecting him to discrimination, harassment and retaliation based on his sexual …
Attorneys for the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles and for plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the agency differ by more than $100 million in how much it should repay motorists for overcharged license and title fees. Attorney Irwin Levin of Indianapolis law firm Cohen & Malad LLP argued during a one-day bench trial Wednesday that the BMV should refund a total of $144 million in …
In a blow to equal rights in workplaces everywhere in America, a federal appeals court ruled September 15 that rescinding a job offer based on a candidate’s refusal to remove her dreadlocks does not constitute racial discrimination on the part of an employer. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 against an Equal Employment Opportunity …
Utah’s system of handling mentally ill criminal defendants appears to be failing, a federal judge said in allowing a civil rights lawsuit to proceed against the state. Because of a persistent backlog at the Utah State Hospital, people judged to be mentally incompetent to stand trail are stacked up in county jails awaiting treatment to restore their competency, the Disability …
Federal regulators might have green-lighted the $44 billion acquisition of Syngenta AG (SYT) by China National Chemical Corp., but Syngenta still has unsettled business to tend to. Notably, its rocky relationship with farmers. According to a recent court filing, a U.S. district court judge in Kansas ruled that the numerous lawsuits brought against Syngenta by U.S. farmers over sales of biotech …
Buy Photo Clyde Saiki, Director of Oregon Department of Human Services, meets with the Statesman Journal for an interview on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, in Salem. (Photo: DANIELLE PETERSON / Statesman Journal)Buy Photo 673 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN2 COMMENTEMAILMORE Lawyers representing Oregon foster children have filed a class action lawsuit in federal court asking a judge to end the Oregon …
Congress dealt President Obama a humiliating foreign-policy blow Wednesday — voting to overturn his veto of a bill that would let families of 9/11 victims sue Saudi Arabia for that country’s alleged role in the terror attacks. The Senate voted 97-1 to override the veto, and hours later the House did the same by 348-77. The …