SolarCity has landed in legal trouble as a class-action lawsuit has been filed against it in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that acquired its securities between May 5, 2015, and February 9, 2016, announced the Wagner Firm, which filed the lawsuit. Anyone who is a member of the class described above and …
A federal judge has dismissed a $750 million class-action lawsuit alleging the Army’s reckless handling of chemical and biological toxins caused death and illness among people living near Fort Detrick in Frederick. The Frederick News-Post (http://bit.ly/2buYcdz ) reports that U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake filed the dismissal notice Thursday in Baltimore.
“This case is the extraordinarily rare one in which Class Counsel both detected the wrong-doing and then single-handedly enforced the law,” said a leading national expert on class action law. Retained by class counsel to provide his opinion to the Court on counsel’s request for attorneys’ fees, he noted that …
A Michigan couple’s class-action lawsuit against Pokemon Go alleges the popular augmented reality game is ruining a local public park. Scott and Jayme Dodich of St. Clair Shores said in their class-action suit, filed last week in northern California, that the game developed by San Francisco-based Niantic has been drawing an unusual number of visitors to …
Venture capitalist Peter Thiel is defending his financial support for litigation targeting Gawker Media for its reporting on celebrities by likening it to efforts to crack down on privacy violations like “revenge porn.” In a New York Times op-ed on Monday defending his decision to fund a case that ultimately forced the media company to put itself up for sale, Thiel cited the Intimate Privacy …
Ever since the March 8 and 9 sweeps of homeless encampments near the Denver Rescue Mission, the city has engaged in a sustained crackdown on uprooted and displaced individuals throughout the city. These actions have been documented by “camping ban” statistics kept by the Denver Police Department, as well as by anecdotal …
Lawyers dream about doing little to no work and getting paid a fortune for the work they didn’t do. A group of hotshot securities lawyers recently was on the verge of just such a payday. They stood to collect $370,000 in legal fees for work that didn’t benefit their clients one iota.
Two months after the federal and state governments sued Carolinas HealthCare System over alleged antitrust violations, a San Francisco-based plaintiffs’ law firm has announced it’s looking for people who might have been harmed and could sue for related damages. In a notice on its website, the 65-lawyer firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein says it’s investigating the Charlotte-based …
Scott Dodich and Jayme Gotts-Dodich have a clear message for the Pokémon Go players who have invaded their local park and private cul-de-sac in St. Clair Shores, Michigan: Get off of their lawn! Also, don’t park in front of their driveway and those of their neighbors, and don’t trample their landscaping and look in their windows — and, when they ask you to leave their property, don’t yell, …
Goldberg Law PC (the “Firm”) announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against SolarCity Corporation (“SolarCity” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: SCTY). Investors who purchased or otherwise acquired shares between May 5, 2015 and February 9, 2016 inclusive (the “Class Period”) are encouraged to contact the Firm in advance of the October 14, 2016 lead …