A legal threat has members of the Metro Council weighing whether helping Google Fiber is worth the headaches of litigation. Google wants permission for work crews to rearrange the high-speed internet cables on utility poles through a plan called “One Touch Make Ready.” But officials say they’re counting on a lawsuit by AT&T if the council goes forward …
When someone you don’t know suddenly sends you a check for nearly a hundred dollars – it can pay to be suspicious. But in this case, the checks are real. They’re settlement checks from a class action lawsuit over illegal robocalls.
“Ultimately the Lehtinens, without admitting liability, agreed to pay $750,000, which covers everything we believed they owed their employees going back two full years, plus an additional amount paid as liquidated damages, plus attorney fees,” said Tim Louris, a lawyer representing the employees from Minneapolis firm Miller O’Brien Jensen. A federal judge in Minneapolis approved the payment on …
The for-profit college chain ITT Technical Institute is facing more lawsuits from employees following its decision to shut down. The Indianapolis Star reports ( http://indy.st/2bWfpLB ) that two new lawsuits say the company violated federal law by not providing 60 days’ notice. Another lawsuit earlier this week sought class-action status on behalf of the 8,000 employees who are losing their …
The strife of thousands of Arab Americans being discriminated against by government entities since 9/11, as well as by some Trump-inspired individuals, is nothing new to the immigrant community. Recently, cases of banks abruptly closing the accounts of their Arab Americans customers without explanation have begun to surface in district courts. Financial institutions like Chase, Bank …
Despite whites making up just under 70 percent of Alabama’s population, they hold 100 percent of the state’s civil and criminal appellate courts. In addition, Alabama’s Supreme Court has only had three African-Americans on its bench in the past 36 years, according to a lawsuit from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Many law firms have joined the NAACP’s …
A voting rights lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks to do away with the at-large elections of judges who sit on Alabama’s three appellate courts, including the Alabama Supreme Court. The at-large election system has been racially discriminatory towards African Americans, who make up more than a quarter of the state’s population, according to the lawsuit that suggests election by single-member …
The estate of a late Ottawa man has launched a $2-million lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Ottawa for sexual abuse he allegedly suffered as a child in the 1960s. The unusual statement of claim was filed last month on behalf of the man, whom the Citizen will identify only as John Doe. He died at the age of 63 in November 2014.
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced Seattle-based Julep Beauty, Inc. and its owner Jane Park, will pay $3 million for using deceptive “negative option” marketing tactics to lure consumers into signing up for recurring boxes of Julep products, and then making it very difficult to cancel their …
A federal lawsuit filed last week accuses Gadsden’s municipal court judge and prosecutor of violating the constitutional rights of one woman by charging unlawful fees and preventing an open court. Alexander City attorney Eric Hutchins filed the lawsuit on behalf of Lasheta McGruder, who appeared in court on a tampering with evidence charge. According to the suit, filed Sept. 1, McGruder was …