A lawsuit is filed today against Colorado Springs Utilities claiming the Martin Drake Power Plant has violated the Clean Air Act over 3,000 times. WildEarth Guardians is the group behind the the lawsuit, they’ve been threatening action since fall. WildEarth Guardians is based in Santa Fe, with other offices throughout the west, including Denver.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration suffered yet another setback Friday in its attempt to avoid refunding $200 million in fines and late fees issued to Chicagoans denied due process after being slapped with 1.5 million red-light and speed camera tickets. The Illinois Appellate Court refused to hear the city’s appeal of a lower court decision certifying the high-stakes lawsuit as a class action. …
Sears Holding Corp’s board of directors and chairman/CEO Eddie Lampert have agreed to a $40 million settlement of a shareholder lawsuit against Lampert himself, Reuters reports. The lawsuit, filed against Lampert, directors and the real estate investment trust (Seritage Growth Properties) that holds much of the struggling retailer’s most valuable real estate, claimed Lampert, whose …
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Project Vote, Campaign Legal Center, Voting Rights Institute at the Georgetown University Law Center, along with the New York City office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP and Atlanta-based firm of Caplan Cobb LLP, acting as pro bono counsel, announced a settlement today in a lawsuit filed on behalf Asian Americans Advancing Justice – …
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera Thursday sued five online gun equipment suppliers selling disassembled large-capacity ammunition magazines as “repair kits” in an alleged attempt to get around state laws. The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that Badger Mountain Supply, 7.62 Precision, Shooters Plus, LAK Supply and Buymilsurp.com are …
A Calwell woman who was suing the Canberra Hospital and two doctors over alleged failures stemming from migraine drug treatment has settled the case for $12 million. It had been alleged that as a result of the alleged failures, Stacey Louise Cave, 40, suffered a stroke and brain damage, and was left dependent on a wheelchair. The case stemmed from Ms Cave’s use of the drug Deseril over many …
Illinois (WIBQ) – A group of social service providers and businesses are trying new legal maneuvers in a bid to get overdue state funds. The Pay Now Illinois coalition paid a visit to St. Clair County Court in Belleville to file another lawsuit against the state. They previously filed a similar lawsuit in Cook County.
A Missouri jury is now hearing evidence in the state’s fourth trial involving the alleged link between Johnson & Johnson talcum powder products and ovarian cancer. During opening statements last week, a plaintiff’s attorney asserted that Johnson & Johnson’s “love of money” led it to ignore a growing body of research linking the genital application of …
On Sunday night in front of the millions of viewers watching the 2017 Grammy Awards, actress Lavern Cox stood on stage and gave a shout out to a Virginia high school student. “Everyone, please Google ‘Gavin Grimm,'” Cox said. “He’s going to the Supreme Court in March.
Water in a school district north of Pittsburgh is so heavily contaminated with lead and copper that a student suffered irreversible damage to her nervous system and the entire school is being tested, her parents say in a federal class action. Lead plaintiff Jennifer Tait sued the Butler Area School District and its former Superintendent Dale Lumley on behalf of her daughter. …