Turning back attempts to change the final terms of the Dieselgate class-action suit settlement, Judge Charles Breyer Tuesday gave thumbs up to the final agreement. The decision clears away the last obstacles keeping owners of Volkswagen turbodiesel vehicles, caught up in the automaker’s self-inflicted emissions cheating scandal, from having their vehicles repurchased as early as next month – …
Broome County is considering filing a lawsuit against opioid drugmakers, a move that would make the county one of the first in the nation to try to hold pharmaceutical firms responsible for the costs of addiction. County officials confirmed talks with Manhattan-based attorneys are in progress, as well as the broad outlines of a potential lawsuit. A suit would follow the template of Suffolk County, which in August enlisted Simmons Hanly Conroy, a national law firm that has recovered $5 billion in verdicts and settlements, to sue 15 pharmaceutical companies and individual medical doctors. Simmons Hanly Conroy “envisions commencing …
The ACLU has brought forward a lawsuit (PDF) against the City of Los Angeles and the LAPD for their gang injunctions, which they say violates Constitutional due process rights. “Part of the problem is the way the cities go about getting injunctions,” Peter Bibring, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU, told LAist. When seeking an …
The family of a man shot and killed by Austin Police officers last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against three police officers and Chief Art Acevedo. 25-year-old Richard Munroe called 9-1-1 on July 5, 2015 saying he was distraught. Munroe would not give his address, but the 9-1-1 operator stayed on the line with him until Officers John Nelson, Stephen Johnson and Matt Murphy arrived.
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation (“Pilgrim’s Pride” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: PPC ) and certain of its officers, on behalf of shareholders who purchased Pilgrim’s Pride securities between February 21, 2014 and October 6, 2016 …
A Renton-based health care system has agreed to pay $351.9 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its employee pension plan. The Seattle Times reports that two nurses with Providence Health & Services filed a lawsuit against their employer in 2014 arguing that the health care group failed to fully fund their workers’ retirement plan.
A Plantation family, whose tremendous Christmas display at their residence caused them to get sued by the city, won their legal battle, Thursday, just in time for the holidays. This is a fight that has been going on for years and finally went to trial a few weeks ago. The judge on this case made her decision that the lights will go on this holiday season.
Plaintiffs’ lawyers often describe their mission as fighting for the little guy. Sometimes that means protecting the little guy’s rights to larger servings of fast food. In the wake of the national class-action battle over the size of Subway “Footlong” sandwiches, another fast food giant is facing a consumer claim about its portion sizes.
A Falmouth physician who is terminally ill with Stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer filed a lawsuit this week in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, asserting that he has a constitutional right to obtain a lethal dose of medication, with the help of his doctor, to die when he chooses and avoid needless suffering. The lawsuit was filed by Dr. Roger M. Kligler, a …
Caffeine is a stimulant, cannabis is a psychoactive drug—and Starbucks doesn’t want anyone to confuse its product with something that promotes a mostly-illegal substance. According to Law360 , a U.S. District Court judge in New York has ordered an Oregon artist named James Landgraf to repay Starbucks $410,800 — $300,000 for copyright infringement, $99,000 for trademark infringement and $11,580 …