The gun maker at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit brought by 10 families of Sandy Hook massacre victims has asked the judge for a second time to dismiss the case. The motion by Remington earlier this week in Bridgeport Superior Court is a common pretrial tactic in a case that is anything but common. The families’ claim that Remington …
Ozzy Osbourne‘s acknowledged mistress has filed a lawsuit against the singer’s daughter, claiming she’s been “slut shamed, bullied and harassed” in the wake of comments made by Kelly Osbourne. Michele Pugh’s court action also fills in several details about a relationship she claims went on for three years with Ozzy. The issue with Kelly dates back to a series of tweets Ozzy’s daughter made …
Three years after university trustees dismissed tenured engineering professor Louis Wozniak, the controversy remains alive and kicking but in a different forum – the federal court in Urbana. Dismissed on Nov. 13, 2013, after nearly 50 years on the faculty, Wozniak challenged the decision in a 2015 federal lawsuit alleging that University of Illinois trustees and various officials violated his civil rights. UI lawyers moved to …
Early this year, Howard Bernstein helped direct $1.7 million to 11 charities near his home in Lake Worth, FL — among them, the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. His actions received …
Trinity Health Corp. will pay $75 million to settle class action claims that it underfunded its pension plans by improperly treating them as “church plans” exempt from federal law (Lann v. Trinity Health Corp., D. Md., No. 8:14-cv-02237-PJM, motion for preliminary settlement approval filed
8/1/16).
An environmentalist group has reached a tentative settlement with the USDA in a lawsuit accusing the agency’s predator control efforts of violating federal law. Attorneys for USDA and Wildearth Guardians, an environmental non-profit, have notified the judge overseeing the case that they’ve struck a deal “in principle, subject to approval by the appropriate government officials.” The notice …
The class-action lawsuit filed against Wendy’s over a data breach at more than 1,000 restaurants has attracted a crowd. More than 20 credit unions across the country, from Alaska to Florida, and a handful of credit union associations, including the Credit Union National Association, have joined as parties to the suit filed in Federal Court earlier this year by First Choice Federal Credit Union …
Advocate Health Care will pay $5.55 million to settle allegations it violated federal patient privacy law — the largest such settlement paid by a single entity. The settlement with the federal government follows an investigation that began in 2013 when Advocate reported three separate data breaches involving its physician-led medical group subsidiary, Advocate Medical Group. The breaches …
But the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Commissioner Emily Johnson Piper, and “a discriminatory residential service system” have kept them from doing so because they have disabilities, says a class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on Wednesday. “I’m 43 years old and I want to have the freedom to make my own choices, basic stuff — like what time I go to …
Plaintiff Richard Rosenbaum has filed a class action lawsuit against Toyota claiming that the automaker has misrepresented the electric-only range of the plug-in hybrid. According to the suit, Toyota’s claim that …