Mar 1, 2018

Appeals Court Favors Sandy Victims’ Lawsuit

Residents and business owners are suing LIPA and National Grid for destruction of property after their homes were destroyed in electric fires during Hurricane Sandy.

The New York State Court of Appeals handed down a favorable decision for dozens of Rockaway residents and business owners on their lawsuit against the Long Island Power Authority and National Grid, LLC, according to lawyers representing the plaintiffs.


‘The Shape of Water’ Struck by Infringement Lawsuit Tidal Wave

Guillermo del Toro‘s film The Shape of Water is being slapped with a copyright infringement lawsuit. The news comes at an inopportune time for the movie, as the 90th Academy Awards ceremony airs on March 4, 2018. The Shape of Water received 13 Oscar nominations, more than any other film this year.


WV MetroNews – More Than 80,000 Claims Filed in Water Settlement for Freedom Spill

Claims filed in connection with the 2014 water crisis settlement will continue to come in over the next few days following last week’s deadline. Charleston attorney Anthony Majestro told MetroNews they received more than 80,000 claims for the $151 million settlement between West Virginia American Water Company and Eastman Chemical following the 2014 Freedom Industries …


Lawsuit Raises Doubts About Colorado Springs’ Commitment to Comply With Access Laws

The Gazette reported in 2015 that the city and El Paso County had fallen well short of the spirit and the letter of the ADA, leaving buildings and pathways inaccessible to the then-estimated 66,000 people with disabilities in the county. Many of those shortcomings fell into an unquantified backlog of noncompliance. More than two years later, many of those shortcomings remain unquantified.


State Drug Task Forces in Crossfire of Lawsuit

A dispute over “sanctuary cities” between the city of Chicago and the federal Justice Department has had a ripple effect neither side could have anticipated: It has essentially blocked all of Kentucky’s drug task forces from receiving a larger portion of the funding they need to keep operating. David Thompson, executive director of the Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force, says the loss in federal …


Advocacy Group Calls Lawsuit Against Opioid Distributors Misguided

A national trade advocacy group for pharmaceutical distributors says that a lawsuit is a misguided attempt to deal with the effects of the opioid epidemic. The Healthcare Distribution Alliance contacted The Malone Telegram on Friday in response to news that Franklin County had joined a multicounty lawsuit against various opioid manufacturers and distributors. The group represents …



Fredericksburg Voters Who Were Given Wrong Ballots Drop Lawsuit

The Fredericksburg-area voters who had sued for an election do-over after dozens voted in the wrong Virginia House of Delegates races Nov. 7 have dropped their lawsuit. In a joint filing earlier this month, with the numerous state and local officials named as defendants in the suit, Dolores and Kenneth Lecky and other plaintiffs agreed the case should be dismissed. U.S. District …


Canadians Join Lawsuits Against Apple

Canadians join lawsuits against Apple A class action lawsuit was filed in Ontario Superior Court against Apple on Friday February 23. The Ontario-based legal action joins over 40 other lawsuits against the high-tech giant. It alleges that the company deliberately slowed the functioning of several models of iPhone in a process known as “throttling” or slowing down the functioning of the phone’s …


Apple Faces Canadian Class Action for Throttling Down iPhones Without Warning or Consent From Consumers

A class action lawsuit was commenced on Friday, February 23 in the Ontario Superior Court alleging that Apple substantially slowed iPhones without warning to or consent from consumers. The claim alleges that Apple’s iOS software updates for iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, SE, 7, and 7 Plus were provided to iPhone users under the pretense that the software updates were necessary to deliver enhanced security and performance. In reality, however, the updates allowed Apple to slow down the performance of these updated iPhones. This practice is known as “throttling” because Apple intentionally slows the phone’s CPU. …