Employees are used to being disciplined at work. People who habitually arrive late for work each day are prime candidates and others who refuse to follow company policies can also end up in an employer’s cross hairs. But what about the things you do during your off-work hours?
An ex-customer of Theranos, located in Arizona, filed a class-action suit against the biotech company for faulty blood testing conducted at a blood draw location inside Walgreens. The man, initialed only as R.C. is also suing the pharmacy chain. …
The City of St. Louis must refund $750,400 to the 21,000 people who paid “warrant recall fees” in the past seven years. On July 19, St. Louis Circuit Court Judge David Dowd gave final approval on a class-action lawsuit settlement with the city – which also deemed that St. Louis can never charge these fees again. In St. Louis, if you missed a court date regarding a warrant fee, the court would …
CALGARY – Enbridge Inc. has reached a US$177-million settlement with the U.S. government six years after two major pipeline ruptures fouled rivers in the Midwest and damaged the company’s reputation. The settlement announced Wednesday includes US$61 million in fines for violations of the Clean Water Act related to a pipeline spill near Marshall, Mich., that sent more than 3.19-million litres of …
A group of attorneys have asked a federal judge not to punish them next week for seeking a more favorable forum in a class-action lawsuit, arguing punishment would be unnecessary and overly harsh. Thirteen attorneys in the 2014 case Adams v. United Services Automobile Association are to go before Chief U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes III the morning of June 24 for a hearing on …
Leonardo DiCaprio will have to find time in his busy schedule of dating models and making movies to be questioned under oath in a lawsuit filed by a lawyer who claims he was defamed by a character in the film “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Long Island Magistrate Judge Steven Locke ruled on Thursday that the actor “will be produced” for his deposition “at a reasonable time and place agreed to by the …
Rev. Susan Hrostowski is familiar with fighting for her and her family’s rights, even if that means going to court. She was one of the plaintiffs in the case that struck down Mississippi’s ban on same-sex adoption on March 31.
Fired Baylor head football coach Art Briles is ripping his former employer, accusing the school of wrongful termination and indicating he has no interest in settling a federal lawsuit filed against him and the university by a woman who was raped by a football player. In a motion filed Thursday, Briles said he wants a judge to assign him new counsel and his personal attorney, Ernest Cannon, said …
On Tuesday, the family of Nohemi Gonzalez, a woman killed in terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015, sued the three tech giants in federal court for unspecified damages. In a 39-page civil complaint, the family’s attorneys argue that the defendants provide “material support to ISIS”—as the companies make …
HSBC Holdings PLC’s (NYSE:HSBC) restructuring effort could be affected by increased litigation charges, in addition to new proposed regulation by the Basel Committee, for estimating operational risk. HSBC’s unit HSBC Finance Corp has agreed to settle the shareholder claims related to Household International, which are 14-years old, for the payment of worth $1.575 billion. HSC spokesman Rob …