University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto (Photo: File ) The University of Kentucky has won its lawsuit against its own student newspaper, with a judge from Lexington ruling this week that the school was right to withhold documents about a sexual assault case involving a former professor. Fayette Circuit Court Judge Thomas Clark ruled that the investigative documents the Kentucky Kernel, …
Epic Systems and a group of plaintiffs in one of three pending overtime pay lawsuits against the health care software maker cannot reveal the terms of a recently reached settlement in part because of a similar lawsuit involving Epic that will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a court filing Tuesday. U.S. District Judge William Conley wrote to the parties earlier this month asking …
The Orange Unified School District has reached a $10 million settlement with the families of five children injured in a 2014 school bus crash in Anahim Hills, a law firm announced Tuesday. Several children were seriously injured when bus driver Gerald Rupple passed out and smashed the coach into a tree while driving 11 children home from El Rancho Charter Middle School. Rupple, now 27, is …
A journalist and a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking information from nine federal agencies or departments on information they have about Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and a group that supports conservative judicial nominees. Sessions has been nominated by President Donald Trump to become the next U.S. Attorney General. The nomination …
A lot of things have been said about the old American International Group in recent years. The Former House of Hank has been dragged through the mud and federal courthouses more than once since being essentially taken over by the Treasury Department but refusing to act like it, and the court of public opinion has been unkind to the firm even after the government sold back it’s AIG stock at a …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has declined to dissolve a class action settlement regarding alleged violations of the Kentucky Wage and Hour Act. Plaintiffs William Whitlock, David Skyrm, James Middleton and Kristin Moore, who were former employees of Fourth Street Live, an entertainment area located in downtown Louisville, filed a suit in Kentucky …
But fire investigation reports seen by TMG Digital‚ and which form part of a class action suit that is being prepared against Ford‚ say the fires were caused by electrical faults. In one of these cases an incorrectly installed spotlight bulb started the fire‚ an investigation report says. The class action is being led by the family of Reshall Jimmy‚ who burnt to death in December 2015 when his …
Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Agile Therapeutics, Inc. (“Agile” or the “Company”) …
Make no mistake: This suit may well fail. If it does, it could help Trump, taking emoluments off the table as grounds for impeachment and allowing his administration to dismiss the issue as fatuous harassment. Democrats would lose a potent rallying cry, and the emoluments criticism would fade from the political arena.
A new lawsuit filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation claims a longstanding public school program in Mercer County, West Virginia, violates separation of church and state provisions of the federal and state constitutions. Mercer’s “Bible in Schools” program offers weekly instruction in the Bible during the school day to elementary and middle school students. The …