Louisiana businessman Nicholas Perioux, a former Trump University student, doesn’t want anything to do with a class action lawsuit filed against the presumptive Republican nominee. He filed an exclusion request form, which was entered into the court docket Thursday. Perioux was considered part of the Trump University “class.” He would have been eligible for any potential settlement or jury …
HSBC has agreed to pay $1.58bn (£1.11bn, €1.4bn) to resolve a US shareholder class action lawsuit that was filed in 2002. The lawsuit had stemmed from HSBC’s 2003 acquisition of US subprime group, Household International. The 14-year-old lawsuit by Household’s shareholders …
US firm Akin Gump has strengthened its West Coast litigation capabilities by adding Neal R. Marder, a specialist in business and commercial litigation, as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Washington, DC-based law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has given itself something to smile about after four of its IP partners decamped to Vinson & Elkins, prompting it to close its Austin office, …
More than 168 professional golf caddies have filed an appeal seeking to overturn a ruling in February that dismissed a $50 million lawsuit against the PGA tour. The caddies alleged the PGA compelled them to wear corporate-sponsored logos on bibs without compensation. The filing claims that the PGA Tour officials threatened to prohibit caddies from participating in events if they didn’t wear the …
On May 4, several environmental organizations filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), calling for an end to the regulatory exemption it carved out in the late 1980s for the oil and gas industry with regards to how it handles industrial waste. That exemption to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976, a recent DeSmog investigation showed, was …
Ticketmaster customers will soon be getting some money back. The company recently agreed to pay $386 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed more than a decade ago. The plaintiffs claimed that some of Ticketmaster’s fees were deceptive and misleading.
A former Lansing Eastern High student says school administrators acted with indifference after an all-state football player raped her on school grounds. She said school officials ignored concerns that she was in danger and that their failure to promptly respond and investigate subjected her to harassment and a hostile environment. …
Hoping to stop the progress of the Longmeadow Parkway, Vernon Hills resident Geoffrey Petzel said he filed a federal citizen lawsuit Friday over the project against the Kane County Department of Transportation and several other governmental bodies. Petzel, a Carpentersville native, filed a pro se lawsuit that asks a judge to prevent construction of the bridge and road, vacate previous approvals …
An atheist activist on Tuesday reached a court-approved settlement to drop a lawsuit against a Corpus Christi, Texas, church planning to erect a 230-foot-tall cross. Patrick Greene said in the settlement his legal complaint against Pastor Rick Milby of Abundant Life Fellowship Church was “baseless,” “vexatious” and “without merit.” “We are grateful that Mr. Greene has admitted that his lawsuit …
In December and January, Spotify was hit with back-to-back lawsuits from David Lowery and Melissa Ferrick — both professors and artists — who sought class action certification over royalties they allege have gone unpaid to songwriters by the world’s largest streaming service. Lowery sought $150 million in damages in his suit, while Ferrick sought $200 million. Those suits were essentially the …