An Ohio lawyer who represents an estimated 3,500 people in a class-action lawsuit against DuPont is urging the state Health Department not to downplay the health risks of a dangerous chemical that contaminated drinking water supplies in eastern Rensselaer County.
New York University, Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are facing lawsuits for allegedly making retirement-savings plan members pay exorbitant fees. NYU, Yale and MIT — each having retirement plans holding over $3 billion in assets — are being individually sued by employees looking to establish a class-action lawsuit. Two of the three …
While elite colleges and universities may have sizable endowments, pension funds are not in the same state of health, which can lead to difficult positions for institutional spending and personnel management decisions. The University of the Cumberlands is a prime example of financial promises made to a former president to reward years of good service, only to rescind …
Texarkana-based attorney John Goodson and 11 lawyers who work with him on class-action lawsuits have appealed a federal judge’s ruling that they broke ethics rules and abused the court system. Their appeal questions whether their conduct violated those rules and whether Chief U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes III abused his discretion in reprimanding five of the lawyers, according to documents …
A class action lawsuit was filed last week against Puna Geothermal Venture over its gas release two years ago during Tropical Storm Iselle. Six plaintiffs — George Douvris, Stephanie Douvris, Michael Hale, Cheryl Carocci, Hillary Wilt and Christina Bryan — filed the lawsuit Friday in Hilo Circuit Court on behalf of themselves and other lower Puna residents impacted by the release, that included …
A class-action civil rights lawsuit filed late Tuesday alleges that more than a dozen St Louis-area municipalities are engaged in the discriminatory and unconstitutional practice of jailing people for unpaid debts in order to raise state revenue, a situation the suit says amounts to a system of modern-day “debtors’ prisons” that primarily affects poor residents of color. The suit alleges a …
The lawsuit, which asks for damages to be assessed at a jury trial, argues that the harmonic progressions, melodic and rhythmic elements central to “Let’s Get It On” formed the structure of Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud. “The Defendants copied the ‘heart’ of ‘Let’s’ and repeated it continuously throughout ‘Thinking,'” the lawsuit said. “The melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic compositions of …
Class Counsel Stephen M. Harris and Robert L. Starr announce that a settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of certain MINI Cooper owners or lessees who have faced or will face repairs to their vehicle due to an alleged defective water pump prone to …
A federal lawsuit filed by shareholders of Denver-based Chipotle Mexican Grill accuses company executives of failing to establish quality-control and emergency-response measures to prevent and then stop food-borne illnesses that sickened customers across the country and proved costly to the company. The complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Denver on behalf of plaintiff Sean Gubricky …
A Douglas County judge is considering a motion from the University of Kansas to dismiss a lawsuit that claims the university misled the public by presenting campus housing as safe. The lawsuit stems from two women, both former KU rowers, who said they were raped in university housing — Jayhawker Towers — by the same man, also a student athlete. The man had played football for the university, …