The complainant is Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW), which was a top-10 wholesale mortgage lending firm. The trustees of the company are accusing PwC of negligence in their audits of TBW’s lender, Colonial Bank. In an agreement between the top management of the borrower and the bank, starting from 2002, TBW chairman Lee Farkas sent mortgage data to Colonial Bank for fake loans or those the company …
Vecchione signed a consent decree on July 7 with the state Board of Dentistry to use best practices in sanitation and to make immediate sanitation improvements. The consent decree says that Vecchione fully cooperated with the investigation and that the probe didn’t find that conditions at the clinic had caused the infections. During its investigation, the state Department of Health determined …
The Toronto District School Board and an elementary school principal said they behaved like a “prudent parent” to protect two students, despite claims that the children faced repeated threats and assaults inflicted by a classmate with special needs. In a statement of defence filed earlier this month in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the school board and the principal at John Wanless …
On Monday, The Office of The Texas Attorney General and the University of Texas at Austin asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit seeking to stop “campus carry”. The lawsuit was brought on from three current UT Austin faculty members: Professors Jennifer Lynn Glass, Lisa Moore and Mia Carter. The three professors sued the state of Texas and the Austin-based university in order to bar …
Fourteen parents whose children were retained in third grade after they “opted out” of Florida’s standardized tests filed a lawsuit this week, saying their rights were violated by confusing standards that rely too much on a single exam. The lawsuit says Education Commissioner Pam Stewart, the state Department of Education, the state Board of Education and several local …
The siblings of quadruple-murder suspect Nicolas Holzer filed a lawsuit in Santa Barbara County Superior Court last week aiming to prevent him from inheriting property or other assets from the trust of his deceased parents, whom he is accused of killing. Holzer faces four murder charges for allegedly murdering his parents and his two children: William Charles Holzer, 73, Sheila Garard Holzer, …
Another lawsuit has been filed by Iowa landowners against Dakota Access’s Bakken Pipeline. According to court documents filed Tuesday in Polk County District Court, Bill Hanigan, of Davis Brown Law Firm, filed a motion to temporarily prevent pipeline construction on property belonging to 14 Polk County landowners. The lawsuit seeks a halt of construction …
The taxi industry has filed an uncertified class-action lawsuit for $215 million against the City of Ottawa over the new rules that will allow ride-hailing companies like Uber to operate next month. The largest lawsuit ever filed against the city, the statement of claim alleges that the city did not take “reasonable steps to maintain the integrity” of the taxi regulations in a way that would …
Shareholder rights law firm Johnson & Weaver, LLP has launched an investigation into whether the board members of Silicon Graphics International Corp. (SGI) breached their fiduciary duties in connection with the proposed sale of the Company to Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Silicon Graphics develops, markets and sells various servers, enterprise-class …
Goldberg Law PC (the “Firm”) announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Flowers Foods, Inc. (“Flowers Foods” or the “Company”) (NYSE: FLO). Investors who purchased or otherwise acquired shares between February 7, 2013 and August 10, 2016 inclusive (the “Class Period”) are encouraged to contact the Firm in advance of the October 11, 2016 lead …