Update: Mount Sinai board says it will launch probe of discrimination claims*Update, 23 May, 4:23 p.m.: The co-chairs of the Board of Trustees at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai yesterday told the medical school’s faculty that the board is forming a “special committee to review matters related to the allegations of discrimination,” as well as any other related issues. The faculty …
The Fresno Bee endorsed Nunes in several subsequent reelection bids, until the congressman began snubbing the newsroom. It’s been more than a year since Nunes has communicated with the Bee’s newsroom. It’s not yet clear how much he’s raised since the McClatchy suit was filed. … I’ve had many cases where it was clear that a party filed a lawsuit to achieve other objectives, but this is so …
The plaintiffs in the case claimed Avandia, which is used to treat Type 2 diabetes, increased the risk of cardiovascular events including heart attacks and congestive heart failure. It took almost a decade for the class-action lawsuit to finally deliver results for the plaintiffs. The company will pay $3,666,666.67 into a fund for people who suffered myocardial infarction, coronary artery …
Chang’s China Bistro, Inc., Massachusetts’s highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), has weighed in on several recurring class action litigation issues, providing much needed guidance in an area where there is limited precedential case law in this jurisdiction. The decision also highlighted some important and somewhat subtle distinctions between class action practice in Massachusetts …
“The argument is once something is deemed to be unconstitutional [in the civil context] — agency fees — then they’re deemed to be retroactively unconstitutional. But that decision, he said, should be made free from the external pressures created by mandatory agency fees. AFSCME and other unions, Hughes acknowledged, can be expected to fight the lawsuit “tooth and nail,” given the amount of …
The family of Justine Ruszczyk Damond last year filed a $50 million civil rights lawsuit against ex-officer Mohamed Noor, the police department and the city. At a news conference earlier in the day, Frey avoided going into specifics about the Noor verdict because of the lawsuit. “Minneapolis is an extraordinary city, and like cities throughout the nation, we also have difficulties with police …
Tesla Model X crash, Hwy 101 Mountainview, CaliforniaThe family of a driver killed in the crash of a Tesla Model X driving on Autopilot filed a lawsuit April 26 against Tesla over the crash, Bloomberg reported. Software engineer Walter Huang, 38, was killed March 23, 2018, when his 2017 Model X drifted out of the left lane of Highway 101 in Mountain View, California and struck a concrete median …
FILE-In this Feb. 1, 2019 file photo the Deutsche Bank headquarters is seen behind a lamp ahead of the annual press conference in Frankfurt, Germany. President Donald Trump has gone to court to fight an attempt by the House to obtain his business records. Two House committees subpoenaed Deutsche Bank and several other financial institutions this month as part of investigations into Trump’s …
The Second Circuit on Monday said the $14.5 million settlement between American Eagle Outfitters and customers who sued over spam text messages can go forward, rejecting appeals by a marketing company…
An attorney representing dozens of survivors and family members of victims killed in the Pulse nightclub massacre amended their negligence lawsuit on Thursday to claim the club’s owners illegally transferred it to another company months after the incident. The suit now alleges Pulse owners Barbara and Rosario Poma made the change to prevent those suing them from being privy to its value. At the …