A US federal judge has encouraged lawyers involved in a class-action lawsuit against President-elect Donald Trump’s now-defunct university to settle the case out of court. US District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, whom Trump accused of bias during the campaign because of his Mexican heritage, said at a hearing in San Diego, California, yesterday that another judge had offered to work with both sides on a possible settlement. …
In one day, the petition has amassed over 24,000 signatures, leaving it just a few hundred away from completion. The American fast food chain filed the lawsuit against Florence last week, following the city’s refusal to let the golden arches set up shop in the famous Piazza del Duomo. McDonald’s accused mayor Nardella of back-tracking on his original decision, and claimed it had lost out on …
The daughter of the late radio legend, Casey Kasem , has headed to court accusing a filmmaker of trying to extort her for $100,000 RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned. Kerri Kasem and the charity she founded, Kasem Cares, filed suit against Cameron Glenar and his company Rose Street Productions , claiming that he is refusing to hand over footage for the documentary they worked on focusing …
ChinaCast Education Corp. took shelter in New York bankruptcy court from investors holding a $65.8 million judgment over the alleged corporate looting that brought down the now-defunct e-learning company. Wednesday’s chapter 11 filing will allow ChinaCast to continue pursuing its former executives for alleged embezzlement and securities fraud while shielding it from a pending investor class- …
PITTSBURGH – The chief executive officer of Lisnr Inc. – one of three parties along with the Indianapolis Colts and Yinzcam named as defendants in a class action lawsuit claiming that a mobile app can listen in on the user’s conversations without consent – said the lawsuit contains a lot of false information. “This is just really a bad lawsuit,” Lisnr CEO Rodney Williams told the Pennsylvania …
A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto created a sexually hostile work environment by hugging and kissing a female employee while on the job. The reversal sends the case back for trial in U.S. District Court in Sacramento. Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto.
Krispy Kreme is facing a class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court Wednesday by a former customer who says the doughnut chain is guilty of false advertising and fraud because some of its supposed fruit-filled and maple-glazed products are made with “nutritionally inferior ingredients.” The 32-page, class-action complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of …
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver will not hear a case about Utah’s efforts to stall a class action lawsuit over mental health treatment in the state’s jails. The Standard-Examiner reports (http://bit.ly/2emtf06 ) that the Utah Attorney General’s Office asked the court to consider its challenge of a ruling certifying the Disability Law Center’s suit as a class action. The appeals …
A Northwest Arkansas McDonald’s owned by Mathews Management Company and Peach Orchard is set to pay $103,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The lawsuit claimed a man was fired from a McDonald’s in Bentonville after management learned of his HIV-positive status. The suit also charged that the companies’ …
Volkswagen AG’s plot to cheat emissions tests by installing so-called defeat devices in its vehicles wasn’t limited to diesel cars, but also included at least six models of Audi 3.0-liter gasoline engines, according to a consumer lawsuit. In a class action on behalf of owners of more than 100,000 vehicles, the German carmaker’s Audi unit was accused of installing software designed to beat …