Huntsville’s city council voted to allow City Attorney Trey Riley to settle a lawsuit alleging that a STAC investigator from Huntsville Police Department hit a detainee. The lawsuit, “Vance Derrick Stone v. City of Huntsville, et al,” alleges officer Anthony McElyea struck Vance Stone while he was waiting to be taken to the hospital post-arrest. It was …
Bradley County Sheriff Deputy Tiffany Oakley Bradley County Sheriff Deputy Tiffany Oakley Photo by Contributed Photo /Times Free Press. The family of a 23-year-old man shot to death last year by a Bradley County, Tenn., deputy has filed a $3 million lawsuit saying he was needlessly killed and charging the sheriff’s office covered up what really happened. When the shooting happened on July 28, …
The YMCA of the Triangle has adopted a new non-discrimination policy as a result of a 2013 lawsuit from a father who said an after-school program declined to accept his son who has Type I diabetes. Bruce Hatcher, whose son was a kindergartner at Underwood GT Magnet Elementary School at the time, said YMCA officials told him that they do not administer shots and …
Neurosurgeon J. William Bookwalter was examining a colleague’s patient who had back troubles when he made an unusual discovery: The operation that his colleague billed Medicare for was far more extensive than the one actually done, according to allegations contained in a lawsuit. A review of two more back operations performed by UPMC neurosurgeon Ghassan Bejjani on another patient yielded the …
Goldberg Law PC (www.Goldberglawpc.com) announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Eaton Corporation plc (“Eaton” or the “Company”) (NYSE: ETN) and certain of its senior executives (the “Defendants”) for violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 10b-5 promulgated …
Canada’s largest grocery chain says it’s trying to verify the accuracy of the coin-counting kiosks in its stores after TD Bank got rid of similar machines from its branches over allegations that they’ve been nickel-and-diming customers. “We are aware of the concerns recently raised about coin-counting machines,” Kevin Groh, the vice-president of corporate affairs and communication …
Posted: Friday, July 29, 2016 7:00 am Class Action Suit Filed Against Paradise CoveBy Emily Sawicki / [email protected] Malibu Times | 0 comments A class action lawsuit has been filed in LA County Superior Court against Paradise Cove Land Company, the Kissel Company and defendants including Steven Dahlberg. Plaintiff Douglas Jablon, a Studio City resident who is represented by …
The largest antitrust class action settlement in history was recently put to a halt by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The $7.25 billion proposed settlement includes a group of merchants challenging the fees and regulations of Visa and Mastercard. The plaintiffs claim the defendants have fixed the fees that merchants were charged every time a …
Nvidia has been fighting off a variety of class action suits related to the way the GTX 970 was advertised when it was released in 2014. It appears those cases are coming to a close after the graphics card maker agreed to a preliminary settlement in the consolidated cases. Under the agreed terms, Nvidia will pay all members of the class who purchased GTX 970 cards $30, and will also cover about …
The Redstones are 0-for-2. Andre Bouchard, a judge at Delaware Chancery Court, has rejected a motion to dismiss Viacom’s lead independent director Frederic Salerno’s lawsuit that challenges the attempted removal of Philippe Dauman and four fellow board members from the media company’s board. The ruling allowing the case to move to the discovery stage follows what happened in Massachusetts …