After last Sunday’s Hall of Fame game was cancelled on account of poor field conditions, lawyer Michael Avenatti filed a class-action lawsuit against the NFL seeking compensation for losses incurred by fans that attended the cancelled game. According to NBC Sports, Avenatti sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday morning with a settlement offer. Reports say that the lawyer …
Rulings to be made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on cases related to class certification could have a significant impact on a split between federal court stances on how strict the criteria for certification should be, especially for suppliers of dietary supplements faced with lawsuits in California courts. “If class members must have some …
IF YOU HELD SHARES OF COMMON STOCK IN TRIUS THERAPEUTICS, INC. (“TRIUS”) AND RECEIVED CONSIDERATION FOR YOUR SHARES IN THE ACQUISITION OF TRIUS BY CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (“CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS”) AND BRGO CORPORATION, A WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS (“BRGO” AND TOGETHER WITH CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS, “CUBIST”) AT THE PRICE OF $13.50 PER SHARE IN CASH AND ONE CONTINGENT VALUE RIGHT PER SHARE, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY THE SETTLEMENT OF A CLASS ACTION.
Kansas is currently being sued by two former rowers who say they were raped by the same football player. The player was investigated and expelled, but in their lawsuits both women say the university still violated Title IX in many ways. They claim that they suffered retaliation from the rowing coaches after reporting what happened; that Kansas ignored a history of sexual assault reports from …
With some of the universities named in the lawsuits holding more than 400 fund options managed by five or more record keepers, universities will have a difficult time wading through details of each fund to determine if and how they could have noticed trends of investment underperformance. But with higher education at large struggling to maintain endowment gains, and …
School district sues WiscNet over alleged overcharges 8/15/2016 A school district is suing the nonprofit Internet provider WiscNet for allegedly overcharging for services and violating a Department of Administration contract. WiscNet, which provides Internet to most school districts and libraries, faced a major blow in 2013 after lawmakers required the UW System end its contract with WiscNet. …
Kroger Co. has been listed as a defendant in a recent class action lawsuit filed on behalf of customers who became ill with listeria following the ingestion of vegetables grown by Pictsweet Co. and processed by CRF Frozen Foods. Listeria monocytogenes grown on Listeria Selective Agar | James.folsom According to the complaint, with the bacteria present in the …
Michigan pays $378 million in lawsuit judgments, settlements over decadeMichigan paid more than $41 million, while receiving more than $278 million in lawsuit settlement and judgment payments over a year, a new report by the Senate Fiscal Agency shows. Here are seven things about lawsuit payments and settlements made and received by the state, according to the annual Senate Fiscal Agency’s …
Judges have issued competing rulings over the validity of lawsuits filed by patients who fear they may have been infected by a former surgical technologist at Swedish Medical Center who stole painkiller syringes while he was HIV positive. Denver District Court Judge Jay Grant on Thursday dismissed one of the lawsuits because free blood tests offered by Swedish had not found infections among …
Six months after the lopsided defeat of a union campaign at Portland Specialty Baking, a group of workers there have filed a lawsuit accusing the company of violating Oregon wage and hour and sick leave laws. Working with the non-profit Northwest Workers’ Justice Project, attorneys Corinna Spencer-Scheurich, Michael Dale, and Phil Goldsmith filed the suit Aug. 8 in Multnomah County …