Police, jailers and court officials in the city of Florissant routinely hold people in jail for an inability to pay fines, often arbitrarily and indefinitely in a jail with deplorable conditions, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Monday. The lawsuit was filed by the nonprofit law group ArchCity Defenders on behalf of five St. Louis-area residents. ArchCity Defenders has filed lawsuits …
One of the most important uses of Facebook Inc. ( FB ) and Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Google’s ( GOOG ) artificial intelligence is face recognition technology. Both tech behemoths have combined it with their data processing capabilities to develop new features in their products. For example, Google Photos uses face recognition technology to streamline searches and quickly identify people and …
Earlier this month , we reported on a Kickstarter for a film called You’ve Been Trumped Too that focuses on Scotland’s Forbes family, which refused to sell their land to Donald Trump for his golf resort. According to filmmaker Anthony Baxter, the people running Trump’s resort have been actively antagonizing the family, going so far as to cut off their water supply five years ago and then refuse …
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. allegedly withheld a $12 million payment to Good Technology Inc. last year, worsening a cash shortage that forced the mobile-security company into a sale brokered by the bank, according to newly public claims in a continuing legal dispute. The new details allege that the bank, in its capacity as a customer of Good Technology, hastened the company’s demise, even while the …
King Solomon Baptist Church Rev. Charles Elliott, Jr., left, a supporter of the new west end Wal-Mart, fires up attendants near the proposed location for the west end Wal-Mart on Wednesday during a prayer vigil.
Pop star Justin Bieber has settled a lawsuit in which a judge threatened the singer with arrest if he didn’t appear for a deposition. Miami attorney Mark DiCowden said Monday in an email that photographer Manuel Munoz’s lawsuit against Bieber was resolved. Terms of the settlement are confidential.
The following statement is being issued by Levi & Korsinsky, LLP: To: All persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired securities of Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Spectrum Pharmaceuticals”) (NASDAQ:SPPI) between December 16, 2015 and September 16, 2016 . You are hereby notified that a securities class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United …
McDonald’s has agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it was liable for labor law violations by a California franchisee, marking what lawyers said was the first time the company has settled legal claims by a group of U.S. workers at one of its franchises. In a filing in U.S. district court in San Francisco on Friday, lawyers representing about 800 employees at five restaurants …
The UC Board of Regents filed a lawsuit against St. Jude Medical and Boston Scientific Corporation for patent infringement last week , alleging that the two companies used various medical technologies without authorization from the regents, who own the patent. Michael Lesh , a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco , invented a device and method for preventing atrial fibrillation , which …
A new series of pending lawsuits allege that local, state and federal officials knew about the levels of contamination at the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago, yet did nothing to prevent residents from being exposed to the toxins. More than 250 individual tort claim notices, legal filings required before submitting a lawsuit to a court, were filed with the City of East Chicago, the …