Most of the proposed procedural rule changes in Representative Bob Goodlatte’s “Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017,” introduced last week in the House of Representatives, are directly traceable to the business lobby’s anti-class-action talking points. Goodlatte – a Virginia Republican and chair of the House Judiciary Committee – has significantly expanded the changes he proposed …
Last week, the United States Supreme Court informed litigants in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis that it is pushing the case to its October 2017 term. The lawsuit, which rose up through the Western District of Wisconsin and the Seventh Circuit, presents the High Court with a chance to resolve a robust circuit split on the question whether mandatory arbitration clauses in …
A settlement agreement has been reached, but neither the victim nor the church she said failed to report her sexual abuse to the authorities can talk about it. On the fifth day of trial Monday in Philadelphia County Court, Stephanie Fessler, of Lancaster, settled the suit she filed against the Jehovah’s Witness Church in Spring Grove. “The matter with the Jehovah’s Witnesses has …
An appeals court has upheld a judge’s dismissal of Mayor Stephanie Miner’s lawsuit against Cor Development over the property tax deal the company got for its $342 million Syracuse Inner Harbor project. The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court in Rochester unanimously dismissed on Friday the city’s appeal of Judge James Murphy’s year-old order. Miner sued Cor on Dec. 15, …
A schoolbus travels down N.C. Highway 58 as it crosses into Trenton, N.C., Monday, March 1, 1999. (Photo: Jom Gardiner, Associated Press) 18387 CONNECTTWEET5 LINKEDIN37 COMMENTEMAILMORE In a bid to create a better chance for black residents of rural areas to get elected to local office, a team of civil rights and private lawyers has filed what one prominent civil rights organization calls the …
A debt collection agency headquartered in Houston has been named in a lawsuit for alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) after it allegedly called a woman while trying to collect a debt from someone else. According to the complaint filed by Cristina Labreau in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District …
A private prison company accused by inmates of dangerously understaffing an Idaho prison as part of a scheme to boost profits will have a chance to present its defense to jurors on Monday when a civil trial begins in Boise’s U.S. District Court.
QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) luring passive investments, as shares build up 2.12% ended at $54.00 as the stock held volume of 14.03 Million as compared to average daily volume of 11837.29. Pomerantz LLP reported that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in United States District Court, Southern …
President Donald Trump’s Department of Labor moved one step closer to putting the brakes on the agency’s fiduciary rule for retirement investment advisers late Feb. 9. The agency sent to the White House’sOffice of Management and Budget a proposal to delay the rule’s applicability date, one week after Trump ordered the agency to review the Obama-era rule that aims to protect retirement investors …
Arathy S Nair DuPont and Chemours Co have agreed to pay $671 million in cash to settle thousands of lawsuits involving a leak of a toxic chemical used to make Teflon, the companies said on Monday. Shares of Chemours jumped 13 percent. The company said it would pay half of the settlement, although liability for litigation connected with the chemical was passed onto it when DuPont spun it off in …