Lawrence Moody said he is satisfied that he and 3,550 other people are finally getting justice. “You just can’t do that to people,” the Washington County man said after DuPont and its spinoff company Chemours agreed to pay nearly $671 million to Mid-Ohio Valley people affected by a chemical used to make Teflon that causes cancer and a host of other health problems. The settlement was announced …
The disgraced cyclist has paid out more than $10 million in damages after admitting to doping in 2013. Now a federal judge has cleared the way for the US government to pursue a $100 million lawsuit against Armstrong. A federal judge on Monday ruled that the US government can sue disgraced former professional cyclist Lance Armstrong in what could amount to a $100 million lawsuit. The US Justice Department (DOJ) has accused Armstrong of defrauding the government by …
An initial ruling is expected soon in a lawsuit challenging how Seattle and Washington state are dealing with unauthorized homeless encampments in the city. Two homeless people sued last month, accusing the city and the state transportation department of violating the rights of people living outdoors by seizing and destroying their property while evicting them from and clearing away their …
The Justice Department said in a brief filed Monday that it would continue to defend President Donald Trump’s targeted travel ban in the federal appeals court in San Francisco, which on Thursday refused to reinstate it. The department did not say whether it would try to appeal that ruling to the Supreme Court. But its silence on the matter suggested that the Trump administration …
A recently unsealed federal lawsuit alleges that Paramedics Plus, the parent company of the Sunstar Paramedics ambulance company, engaged in an illegal kickback scheme involving Pinellas County EMS and millions of dollars in “false claims” against Medicare and Medicaid. Craig Hare, Director of EMS and Fire Administration in Pinellas County, has deferred all …
Memphis’ biggest bank could shell out nearly $17 million to settle a lawsuit over overdraft fees. There’s a chance you could be eligible for payment in the class action settlement. There are 54 pages court documents for the case that has been going on for more than five years.
It was hailed as one of the largest anti-trust, class-action settlements ever — nearly $2 billion to be paid to investors by some of the country’s major banks for allegedly fixing the financial markets. And right there near of the top of the list of victims of the alleged fraud was the Essex Regional Retirement System, the Danvers-based organization that manages $370 million in …
A preliminary settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit filed against Kane’s Furniture that accused the retailer of failing to honor lifetime warranties for defective “bonded leather” furniture that peeled, flaked and deteriorated. Related News/Archive Notices to about 15,000 customers who purchased the furniture were put in the mail starting Friday providing details and …
Energy Transfer Rover Pipeline is one step closer to burying its gas line in Lenawee, Washtenaw and Livingston counties after the company filed a federal lawsuit Friday, Feb. 3 to start construction. ET Rover is trying to install a natural gas pipeline throughout West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. About 58 companies, government entities and/or individuals …
Now it’s getting interesting. A new court filing made on behalf of dozens of people claiming Monsanto Co.’s Roundup herbicide gave them cancer includes information about alleged efforts within the Environmental Protection Agency to protect Monsanto’s interests and unfairly aid the agrichemical industry. The filing, made late Friday by plaintiff’s attorneys, includes what the attorneys represent …