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News Nov 4, 2016

Texas Pastoral Group Upset Over Request for Sermons in Lawsuit

A Texas-based group that once called Houston’s first openly-gay mayor a “sodomite” has decided to get involved with a Georgia preacher and doctor suing over religious discrimination. Eric Walsh’s sometimes fiery sermons came to the attention of Georgia public health officials after he was conditionally offered a job in May 2014. During his time there, one of Walsh’s supervisors asked for links to a few sermons. That’s what outraged …

News Nov 4, 2016

Fired Disc Jockey: Taylor Swift Lawsuit ‘Defies Credibility’

A former disc jockey who was fired from a radio station in Denver after Taylor Swift alleged that he groped her is firing back in court, saying her story “defies credibility.” David Mueller was fired from KYGO after an alleged incident backstage at a Swift performance at the Pepsi Center in Denver in 2013. The superstar alleges that Mueller reached up her skirt and touched her inappropriately …

Notices Nov 4, 2016

TWTR SHAREHOLDER ALERT: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Notifies Investors of a Class Action Involving Twitter, Inc. And a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of November 15, 2016

The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the USDC for the Northern District of California on behalf of investors who purchased Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) securities between February 6, 2015 and July 28, 2015. Click here to learn about the case: http://www.wongesq.com/pslra/twitter-inc . There is no cost or obligation …

News Nov 4, 2016

Questions Arise Surrounding $555.2 Million Award to Deepwater Horizon Plaintiffs’ Attorneys

U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, has sided with the findings of a court-appointed fee committee and awarded $555.2 million to the 107 law firms handling the multi-district litigation (MDL) suit against BP for its role in the Deepwater Horizon tragedy. The committee, whose creation both parties agreed to, …

News Nov 4, 2016

Former Duke Researcher at Center of Lawsuit Lodges 16th Retraction

Two former researchers at Duke University at the center of a lawsuit by a whistleblower to recoup millions in federal funding have lost yet another paper. This is hardly the first retraction for Erin Potts-Kant , who used to work in the pulmonary lab of now-retired William Michael Foster. Earlier this year, a lawsuit filed by a former colleague of Potts-Kant and Foster was unsealed alleging …

Lawsuits Nov 4, 2016

Class Action on Cameras

Chicago’s red-light camera program is an example of how government can fail miserably. Chicago city officials installed their red-light camera program to pick the pockets of local motorists, not enhance traffic safety. So it seems apropos that a Cook County judge this week gave her approval to a class-action lawsuit covering up to 1.5 million motorists that attacks the manner in which this …

News Nov 4, 2016

Those Suing Anthem Seek Security Audit Documents

Plaintiffs suing Anthem Inc. in the wake of a cyberattack that exposed information on nearly 80 million individuals in 2015 want a court to open the door to revealing more of the results of audits of the insurer …

Lawsuits Nov 4, 2016

Royal Caribbean Didn’t Try to Save Man Who Died After Falling Overboard on Cruise

The husband of a man who died after falling overboard on a Royal Caribbean cruise is now suing, claiming the company didn’t make any efforts to save him or to retrieve his body. According to a complaint filed in Miami Federal Court this week, reported by Courthouse News , the couple was subjected to homophobic taunts from employees almost immediately after boarding Oasis of the Seas on Oct. 31, …

Lawsuits Nov 4, 2016

Delivery Drivers Sue Trucking Firms, Amazon as Joint Employers, Say Broke Law by Not Paying OT

A pair of former delivery drivers has filed a class action lawsuit against the trucking company that employed them and against Internet behemoth Amazon, the merchant whose cargo they were delivering and who they allege acted as their “joint employer,” saying the companies wrongly didn’t pay overtime, making them earn less than what state and federal law requires. In the lawsuit filed Nov. 1 in …

News Nov 4, 2016

A Product of Its Time: Cold War ‘Fruit Machine’ Now Basis for Federal Lawsuit

It’s not fiction — although it sounds like something straight out of a dystopian novel. The so-called “fruit machine” was a homosexuality detection system commissioned by the Canadian government during the Cold War — and developed largely by a psychologist at Carleton University in Ottawa — to keep LGBT people out of the public service or military. While the machine is long gone, its legacy is …