The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency on Thursday agreed to a series of broad policy reforms as it settled a federal lawsuit stemming from the state’s past reliance on an automated computer system that made more than 20,000 false fraud claims against residents over a nearly two-year span. U.S. District Court Judge Robert H. Cleland signed an order …
Lundin Law PC, a shareholder rights firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit against DaVita Inc. (“DaVita” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: DVA). Investors who purchased or otherwise acquired shares between August 5, 2015 and October 21, 2016 inclusive (the “Class Period”), are encouraged to contact the firm in advance of the April 3, 2017 lead plaintiff …
New York Attorney Eric Schneiderman believes his lawsuit against Time Warner Cable and its successor–Charter Communications and its Internet service known as Spectrum–could have the greatest impact in Western New York, due to the limited choices Western New Yorkers have for getting on the Internet. Schneiderman filed a civil action against the nation’s second-largest …
A federal judge has dismissed one of the first major class-action lawsuits filed against the state in response to the Flint water crisis. U.S. District Judge John Corbett O’Meara dismissed the case on Thursday, saying allowing the plaintiffs’ claims to proceed would circumvent the Safe Drinking Water Act’s procedures. The lawsuit was filed in 2015 by Melissa Mays and several other Flint residents against Gov. Rick Snyder, the city of Flint and other state and city officials involved in making the decision to use water from the corrosive Flint River, which caused high lead levels in the water municipal water system. The plaintiffs alleged …
Judge’s Aetna-Humana ruling sparks class-action lawsuit: 5 things to know Written by Morgan Haefner | February 03, 2017 |Print |Email A Pennsylvania law firm filed a class-action lawsuit against Aetna following a judge’s ruling the payer’s proposed $37 billion acquisition of Humana violated antitrust laws. The lawsuit alleges the Hartford, Conn.-based payer made false claims about its decision …
Apple has been hit with a class action lawsuit in California. This one alleges that the company purposely broke FaceTime on iOS 6 to force users to upgrade to iOS 7 to regain functionality. The move, according to the lawsuit, was done to avoid paying high data costs to Akamai.
The years-long legal battle between Zenimax and Oculus drew to a close yesterday, as the court ruled in Zenimax’s favor after two days of deliberations. As a result, Zenimax is owed a total of $500 million for a variety of charges against Oculus, CTO John Carmack, and co-founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe. Now that the dust has had a chance to settle, a pair of legal experts sat down to …
A group of U.S. chicken farmers sued the country’s biggest poultry processors, including Tyson Foods Inc, for allegedly conspiring to depress their pay, the latest accusation of improper collusion in the sector. Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride Co, Sanderson Farms Inc and other companies illegally agreed to share detailed data on grower pay with one another to keep …
Presenting a reality that’s probably not quite as virtual as they might possibly like, Facebook and its Oculus subsidiary have been hit with more than $500 million in damages in a lawsuit. According to Variety, a judge has ordered the companies to pay the damages to video game publisher ZeniMax Media, who successfully argued that Oculus executives broke their non-disclosure agreements with the …
Republican legislative leaders have voted to hire private attorneys to appeal a court ruling that found Wisconsin’s legislative districts are unconstitutional. The GOP plan would hire the law firms Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Bell Giftos St. John LLC, “and any other firms, entities or counsel deemed necessary for services related to the matter of Whitford v. Gill and legislative redistricting and …