Lack of clearer allegations about accreditation could be a weak spot in the $5 million putative class action lawsuit filed in Maine by four former nursing students, a New York-based business law and litigation attorney said during a recent interview. “I was disappointed that the complaint did not more clearly spell out the alleged misrepresentation regarding …
The terms of a settlement between Mechel Bluestone Inc. and miners who allege they were laid off unlawfully from a Wyoming County mine in 2013 have been reached. Before the class action settlement is finalized, federal Judge Irene Berger, Southern District Court, must approve the agreement. If she approves the settlement, 64 miners laid off at the Double-Bonus Mine No.
Lawrence Moody said he is satisfied that he and 3,550 other people are finally getting justice. “You just can’t do that to people,” the Washington County man said after DuPont and its spinoff company Chemours agreed to pay nearly $671 million to Mid-Ohio Valley people affected by a chemical used to make Teflon that causes cancer and a host of other health problems. The settlement was announced …
The disgraced cyclist has paid out more than $10 million in damages after admitting to doping in 2013. Now a federal judge has cleared the way for the US government to pursue a $100 million lawsuit against Armstrong. A federal judge on Monday ruled that the US government can sue disgraced former professional cyclist Lance Armstrong in what could amount to a $100 million lawsuit. The US Justice Department (DOJ) has accused Armstrong of defrauding the government by …
An initial ruling is expected soon in a lawsuit challenging how Seattle and Washington state are dealing with unauthorized homeless encampments in the city. Two homeless people sued last month, accusing the city and the state transportation department of violating the rights of people living outdoors by seizing and destroying their property while evicting them from and clearing away their …
The Justice Department said in a brief filed Monday that it would continue to defend President Donald Trump’s targeted travel ban in the federal appeals court in San Francisco, which on Thursday refused to reinstate it. The department did not say whether it would try to appeal that ruling to the Supreme Court. But its silence on the matter suggested that the Trump administration …
A recently unsealed federal lawsuit alleges that Paramedics Plus, the parent company of the Sunstar Paramedics ambulance company, engaged in an illegal kickback scheme involving Pinellas County EMS and millions of dollars in “false claims” against Medicare and Medicaid. Craig Hare, Director of EMS and Fire Administration in Pinellas County, has deferred all …
Memphis’ biggest bank could shell out nearly $17 million to settle a lawsuit over overdraft fees. There’s a chance you could be eligible for payment in the class action settlement. There are 54 pages court documents for the case that has been going on for more than five years.
It was hailed as one of the largest anti-trust, class-action settlements ever — nearly $2 billion to be paid to investors by some of the country’s major banks for allegedly fixing the financial markets. And right there near of the top of the list of victims of the alleged fraud was the Essex Regional Retirement System, the Danvers-based organization that manages $370 million in …
A preliminary settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit filed against Kane’s Furniture that accused the retailer of failing to honor lifetime warranties for defective “bonded leather” furniture that peeled, flaked and deteriorated. Related News/Archive Notices to about 15,000 customers who purchased the furniture were put in the mail starting Friday providing details and …