While jury duty is a civic responsibility, it can sometimes be an expensive inconvenience: A new lawsuit says jurors in D.C.’s Superior Court face exorbitant fees charged by a bank that deprives them of the maximum payment of $34 per day. Attorneys for William Mark Scott, a lawyer himself, have filed a class action suit against JPMorgan Chase & Co. in D.C. federal court for unjust …
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide as early as next week whether to hear the appeal of a Sixth Circuit decision upholding a class-action settlement that distributed only $1.6 million to consumers but yielded $2.4 million for the attorneys who represented them. Objectors and the attorneys general of 17 states urge the court to take the case and hand down tighter rules on how lower courts consider the value of a settlement for calculating legal fees. …
Another veteran said he was sexually abused by a physician’s assistant at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medical Center in Leavenworth, Kansas. FOX 4 first exposed accusations against PA Mark Wisner in June, and since then several more veterans have come forward with similar stories of abuse.
Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP (“GPM”) reminds investors of the February 21, 2017 deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in the class action filed on behalf of a class (the “Class”) of investors who purchased Universal Health Services, Inc. (“Universal Health” or the “Company”) (NYSE: UHS) securities between February 26, 2015 and December 7, 2016, inclusive (the …
First lady Melania Trump is — in and of herself — a “brand,” one that could elicit lucrative endorsement opportunities, according to a lawsuit refiled by her attorneys on Monday. The lawsuit, filed in New York Supreme Court, argues a now-retracted Daily Mail Online article published last August that falsely alleged the first lady once worked for an escort service has damaged her reputation to …
A Washington County woman claims that her ex-husband, a deputy sheriff, got her jailed for a critical Facebook post. In a lawsuit filed last month in U.S. District Court, Anne King claims that she asked Deputy Corey King in January 2015 to pick up medicine for their sick child. Her ex-husband refused, she said, claiming he was too busy.
Advocacy groups and a labor union are suing the Trump administration over the president’s executive order requiring federal agencies to repeal two regulations for every new regulation adopted. Calling the order “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and not in accordance with law,” the groups allege in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court that President Trump’s directive will …
Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP (“GPM”) reminds investors of the February 21, 2017 deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in the class action filed on behalf of a class (the “Class”) of investors who purchased Rent-A-Center, Inc. (“Rent-A-Center” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: RCII) securities between July 27, 2015, and October 10, 2016, inclusive (the “Class Period”). …
A partner in a large Washington law firm who had spent years prosecuting fraud cases was arrested and accused of trying to sell a copy of a sealed federal lawsuit to a Silicon Valley company targeted in the suit. Jeffrey A. Wertkin, 40, joined the Akin Gump law firm in the …
The City of Grovetown is making some staffing changes as problems continue for the city’s water department. For better or for worse, the city of Grovetown is going through a lot of changes. “In general, I have found that most of the way things are done have not been the right way as far as I’m concerned,” said Mayor Gary …