ChinaCast Education Corp. took shelter in New York bankruptcy court from investors holding a $65.8 million judgment over the alleged corporate looting that brought down the now-defunct e-learning company. Wednesday’s chapter 11 filing will allow ChinaCast to continue pursuing its former executives for alleged embezzlement and securities fraud while shielding it from a pending investor class- …
PITTSBURGH – The chief executive officer of Lisnr Inc. – one of three parties along with the Indianapolis Colts and Yinzcam named as defendants in a class action lawsuit claiming that a mobile app can listen in on the user’s conversations without consent – said the lawsuit contains a lot of false information. “This is just really a bad lawsuit,” Lisnr CEO Rodney Williams told the Pennsylvania …
A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto created a sexually hostile work environment by hugging and kissing a female employee while on the job. The reversal sends the case back for trial in U.S. District Court in Sacramento. Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto.
Krispy Kreme is facing a class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court Wednesday by a former customer who says the doughnut chain is guilty of false advertising and fraud because some of its supposed fruit-filled and maple-glazed products are made with “nutritionally inferior ingredients.” The 32-page, class-action complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of …
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver will not hear a case about Utah’s efforts to stall a class action lawsuit over mental health treatment in the state’s jails. The Standard-Examiner reports (http://bit.ly/2emtf06 ) that the Utah Attorney General’s Office asked the court to consider its challenge of a ruling certifying the Disability Law Center’s suit as a class action. The appeals …
A Northwest Arkansas McDonald’s owned by Mathews Management Company and Peach Orchard is set to pay $103,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The lawsuit claimed a man was fired from a McDonald’s in Bentonville after management learned of his HIV-positive status. The suit also charged that the companies’ …
Volkswagen AG’s plot to cheat emissions tests by installing so-called defeat devices in its vehicles wasn’t limited to diesel cars, but also included at least six models of Audi 3.0-liter gasoline engines, according to a consumer lawsuit. In a class action on behalf of owners of more than 100,000 vehicles, the German carmaker’s Audi unit was accused of installing software designed to beat …
After moving from New York state, Charlene Carroll moved to the rural community to get some peace and quiet. However, that peace came to screeching halt on Aug. 25, 2014 during an encounter with deputies.
Awkward is the idea of a president-elect going to trial for fraud between his election and inauguration. Which is why the Trump University lawsuit may be fizzling out. The six-year-old class-action suit—brought by former students of Donald Trump’s now-defunct education company, who allege that …
IMDb has sued California’s Attorney General (and soon to be U.S. senator) Kamala Harris in an effort to overturn a new law that requires the company’s IMDb Pro to remove the ages of actors and others listed on the site if asked by them to do so. Related State Assembly Bill No. 1687 was narrowly crafted to apply only to “commercial online entertainment employment providers” that charge a …