A group of agencies and businesses that provides services to state government has opened a second front in the legal fight to get Illinois to pay billions in back-due bills. The Pay Now Illinois coalition filed a lawsuit in St. Clair County on Thursday demanding state officials pay bills dating to July. An $11 billion pile of overdue bills has grown with a nearly two-year long budget stalemate.
Lisa A. Rickard, president of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), made the following statement today about the introduction of the “Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017” (H.R. 985) in the U.S. House of Representatives: “Class action lawsuits were created to make it easier for plaintiffs to get justice. But today, class actions are rife with …
Missouri’s Republican Senate leader is proposing a sweeping overhaul of a state consumer-protection law that’s being used in a class-action lawsuit against the company of one of his largest donors. Senate President Pro Tem Ron Richard told reporters Thursday that close to $300,000 in campaign donations he’s received since 2011 from the wealthy Humphreys family didn’t …
A federal judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Microsoft that claims a law that prohibits technology companies from telling customers when the government demands their electronic data is unconstitutional. In ruling against the government’s motion to dismiss, U.S. District Judge James Robart agreed with Microsoft’s argument that the law violates the company’s First …
A 19-year-old college student from Oregon was suing Barack Obama in hopes of saving the world. Now that Obama is out of office, she’s turning her lawyers loose on Donald Trump. “Trump,” said Tia Hatton, “is scary. He’s terrifying.” On Thursday, the young people asked their lawyers to go to court and substitute Trump for Obama as the defendant in their 2-year-old lawsuit, which could come to trial in federal court in Oregon this year. In November, a federal judge denied a U.S. Justice Department motion to have the case dismissed. Hatton came to San Francisco to explain the suit as the guest of the prestigious Commonwealth Club. “The government just isn’t doing its job,” Hatton said in an interview. …
Courts in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec have approved a plan for distributing $29.6 million obtained from settlements in a class-action lawsuit related to the price-fixing of air cargo shipping services between 2000 and 2006. Eligible individuals must apply online at www.aircargosettlement2.com by May 11. A class-action lawsuit was filed in 2006 and involved more than 20 defendants including Air Canada (TSX:AC) and carriers such as Air France, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Japan Airlines International, Korean Air lines and KLM. It was alleged …
In January of 2015, the NCAA voted to let its major conferences broaden their definition of “college scholarship”—allowing them to give their athletes a small cost-of-attendance stipend for travel and other expenses, in addition to tuition and room and board. Now, thanks to a new $208 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit, some college athletes who played before those cost-of-attendance …
A major class action lawsuit filed by Flint, Mich., residents over how the state handles changes in the city’s water that led to the lead-contamination crisis was dismissed by a federal judge Thursday. The Detroit News reports that U.S. District Judge John Corbett O’Meara dismissed the case brought by Flint activist and resident Melissa Mays and several other Flint families because “allowing …
The law firm Gardy & Notis, LLP announces that it filed a securities fraud class action lawsuit in federal court on behalf of investors who purchased Under Armour, Inc. (“Under Armour”) (NYSE: UA, UAA) common stock between April 21, 2016 and January 30, 2017 (the “Class Period”). The lawsuit alleges that, during the Class Period, Under Armour and certain …
State officials have confirmed that they have settled for $225,000 a lawsuit filed by a hiring prospect who alleged a job offer was withdrawn after videos of his sermons against homosexuality and evolution surfaced. But state officials deny the sermons had anything to do with the decision to withdraw the job offer and admit no wrongdoing. …