In a claim that appears to contradict Yahoo’s public statements on two record-setting breaches of users’ personal data, a Texas insurance agent is alleging in a just-filed class-action lawsuit that his credit card data was stolen in the hacks, leading to fraudulent charges. Brian Neff, who owns an online insurance company based in Little Elm, Texas, said in the suit he paid Yahoo for web …
According to documents from Craig Goodmark, attorney for the plaintiffs in the case, current Floyd County educator Ronda Ware, the Floyd County Association of Educators and the Georgia Association of Educators have filed the suit against Floyd County Schools asking that the Fair Dismissal Act be reinstated. Goodmark filed the lawsuit Friday. “The educators in this case have worked very hard for many years to earn the protections of the Fair Dismissal Act,” Goodmark said …
The mayor here is trying to stop a business owner from opening a laundromat because of his religion, a lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges. Mohammed Almuttan says Bender McKinney, the mayor of Country Club Hills, has repeatedly denied him a license because his family is from Palestine and are practicing Muslims, the lawsuit claims. The suit also names three members of the Board …
NEW YORK, Feb. 07, 2017 — Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Stemline Therapeutics, Inc. (“Stemline” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:STML) on behalf of investors that acquired Stemline securities: (1) pursuant and/or traceable to Stemline’s secondary public …
Mac owners between 2003 & 2008 can claim $10 in optical drive class-action lawsuit settlement
By Mike Wuerthele
Wednesday, February 08, 2017, 08:23 am PT (11:23 am ET)
A family has won its case claiming the LBJ freeway expansion damaged their home. Aurora and Felipe Rodriguez were the first of 223 plaintiffs to go to trial against Trinity Infrastructure, claiming the construction caused the homes to shift and crack. The jury awarded them $248,000 to rebuild their home, finding the contractor behind …
Class-action suits can cost employers millions of dollars. Uber is awaiting a court decision on its own settlement proposal that would amount to a $1 per claimant. Uber drivers sued the company over wages and for allegedly misclassifying them as independent contractors instead of employees.
This Is Spinal Tap actors Christopher Guest and Michael McKean and the mockumentary’s director Rob Reiner have joined co-star Harry Shearer’s lawsuit against the film’s rights holder Vivendi. “It’s impossible that Vivendi’s income from music sales and merchandising totaled just $179 over a more than 20-year period,” director says In October, Shearer filed a $125 million lawsuit against Vivendi, …
First Lady Melania Trump has settled a defamation lawsuit against a US blogger for a “substantial sum”, it was reported today. Blogger Webster Tarpley agreed to publish an apology, in which he said he had published an article that was “replete with false and defamatory statements about her.” According to court documents filed in October, the article reported false …
A former Benton Harbor High School student says the school district protected a star quarterback – who led the Tigers to their first-ever playoff win – after he sexually …