The Latest on the settlement in a lawsuit filed by the family of a black man fatally shot in 2010 after two off-duty Little Rock police officers entered his home without a warrant (all times local): 4 p.m. An attorney for the family of a black man fatally shot by Little Rock police in 2010 says the roughly $1.5 million settlement in the family’s lawsuit marks the largest settlement in the …
A western Massachusetts bean sprout farm has agreed to pay $78,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that alleged the farm was discharging pollutants into the Connecticut River. The suit alleged that Chang Farms, in Whately, violated the terms of its federal Clean Water Act permit by discharging industrial wastewater into the river.
Air New Zealand has agreed to pay $US35 million ($A47.57 million) to settle a class-action lawsuit in the US. The action by freight forwarding companies claimed airlines colluded over cargo fuel and security surcharges between 2000 and 2006. New Zealand’s national carrier was one of only two airlines still holding out in the suit – the other being Air India – after 26 airlines cut settlement …
Renaud Laplanche stepped down last Friday, the online lender announced today. According to an internal investigation, Laplanche had improperly managed $22 million in loan sale agreements in March and April. Three additional senior executives resigned or were fired.
The securities litigation law firm of Brower Piven, A Professional Corporation, announces that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on behalf of purchasers of HCP, Inc. (NYSE:HCP) (HCP or the …
Here’s The Lawsuit Against A State Anti-LGBT Law You Aren’t Hearing About by Zack Ford May 10, 2016 1:31 pm CREDIT: AP Photo/Emily Wagster Pettus Jennifer Riley-Collins, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi, introduces the lawsuit, flanked by attorney Oliver Diaz, and plaintiffs Nykolas Alford and Stephen Thomas. North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law HB2 isn’t the …
The suit, which names Sen. Harry Reid (R-NV), his son, Rory, U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro and President Obama as defendants, calls for Bundy to be released from federal custody and awarded $50 million in damages. In the complaint, Bundy alleges Reid deployed “the equivalent of federal storm-troopers” to meet Bundy’s “peaceful cowboys” defending their grazing rights on public lands. The …
ESPN and Verizon have resolved a legal battle that began when the popular sports network sued the FiOS provider over its unconventional “Custom TV” channel packages last year. Verizon announced more flexible (and slimmer) programming bundles last April that gave customers the choice of keeping or excluding ESPN from their main subscription. ESPN cried foul, claiming that Verizon’s new approach …
The case of Samantha Niemann vs. the Getty Foundation has generated all manner of headlines and Internet jabs after the white university student claimed she had been deterred from applying for an internship program geared toward underrepresented minorities. Boing Boing responded with a tearful emoji under the headline “White woman wants minority internship, sues Getty Foundation.” The arts …
A California federal judge is allowing Paramount Pictures and CBS to boldly go where no Star Trek rights holder has gone before. The two studios are suing over Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar, a short film, as well as Axanar, a proposed feature-length picture that’s been raising money on Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms. In response to the lawsuit, Alec Peters’ Axanar Productions …