Theranos and its CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, are being sued by investors who claim Holmes lied about the company’s technology as the startup raised funds. The lawsuit, filed in California, names two shareholders who are seeking class-action status. They include Robert Colman, a co-founder of Robertson Stephens , the San Francisco investment bank.
Janice Dickinson isn’t letting up on Bill Cosby. At a court hearing Monday, a lawyer for the former supermodel said Dickinson is determined to pursue her defamation lawsuit against the comedian, despite legal delays. “Janice is really adamant she wants to try this case,” lawyer Jivaka Candappa told the Daily News.
Former NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel has been accused of breaking an Austin bar employee’s nose in a September altercation, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday. According to the lawsuit, the bar employee is seeking anywhere from $200,000 to $1 million in damages. After demanding drinks from the employee, Manziel reportedly punched the him in the nose and left the bar.
Jose Anaya Renteria says he was locked in a freezer. Martina Aguilar Aragon says Latino workers were paid less than their white colleagues. And Susana Gonzalez says her bosses told her not to disclose work-related injuries at the hospital.
A former Citigroup Inc financial adviser on Monday filed a lawsuit accusing the bank of running a “boys’ club” that favored men over women, treating her as a “glorified secretary,” and firing her in retaliation for whistleblowing activity. Erin Daly is seeking double back pay, unpaid bonuses and punitive damages over the bank’s alleged harassment, hostile …
A class action lawsuit has accused Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier and other North Dakota law enforcement agencies of using excessive force during a Dakota Access pipeline protest where a Bronx woman nearly lost her arm. The National Lawyers Guild claims at least nine plaintiffs suffered from injuries, such as seizures, facial burns, broken bones, bruising and eye damage during a violent …
Zillow announced Monday it had agreed to pay $6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by an Irvine employee accusing the firm of failing to pay overtime and pressuring employees to skip meal and rest breaks. The Seattle-based online real estate company had announced the settlement in May, but hadn’t disclosed the terms until Monday. The settlement had been contingent on a U.S. Labor …
The defendants claim they have injuries that range from severe eye injuries, to head lacerations that needed more than a dozen staples to close up and broken bones from rubber bullets and other devices fired by law enforcement. Last week we told you about Sophia Wilansky who was severely injured by what she calls a concussion grenade that blew apart her forearm and hand. She was flown from …
Residents of an Oklahoma town hit by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in September have filed a class-action lawsuit against more than two dozen of energy companies, accusing them of triggering destructive earthquake by injecting wastewater from oil and gas production underground. Pawnee residents filed the suit in district court against 27 companies …
Walmart Transportation has been ordered by a federal jury to pay 850 current and former truck drivers a total of $55 million in back pay, stemming from a 2015 ruling that the retail giant’s private fleet did not comply with California minimum wage laws. Notably, the fleet did not pay drivers for federally stipulated 10-hour off-duty periods, accounting for $44.7 …