Last week, a federal judge in Florida refused to dismiss a privacy lawsuit brought by New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul against ESPN for showing readers a copy of the NFL superstar’s medical chart revealing an amputated right finger. At the time of the decision, the judge’s analysis wasn’t immediately available, but on Monday, U.S. District Court judge Marcia Cooke issued a …
A lawsuit has been filed against a former Kosciusko County news blogger. The family of Gary Helman blames Stacey Staley for his death, according to the South Bend Tribune.
Fox News struck back against the former anchor Andrea Tantaros on Monday, filing a motion to move her sexual harassment lawsuit into arbitration. In papers filed in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, the network said, “Tantaros is not a victim; she is an opportunist.” Last week, Ms. Tantaros filed the lawsuit in the same court, accusing Fox News of operating like “a sex-fueled, Playboy …
On Monday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an effort by Disney and DreamWorks to delay a class action lawsuit that alleges that animation studios colluded with each other to deny its workers better job opportunities and keep wages low. Robert Nitsch, a former visual effects worker who worked on Matrix Revolutions and Kung Fu Panda, and others are moving forward after striking a $13 …
A month after five state of New Mexico employees testified in federal court that they were instructed to falsify emergency food aid applications, another lawsuit filed in Las Cruces district court made strikingly similar allegations. But instead of directing her allegations toward state government, Lorraine McCullough directed her allegations toward SL Start and Associates, a private, …
Sir Philip Green is trying to end the threat of legal action against him over the sale of BHS by writing a cheque for more than £300 million that would help to plug a hole in the company’s pension fund. Representatives of the tycoon and the pensions regulator are holding talks on the future of the BHS fund, which is estimated to have a deficit of about £700 million. Yesterday the 22 remaining …
A lawsuit targeting Maryland’s use of gerrymandering can go forward, a three-judge federal panel ruled Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT Steve Shapiro, the American University law student who filed the lawsuit, argues the map violates the rights of 6th District Republican voters to political expression and association. The suit asks the map not be used in future elections, but the lawsuit won’t affect …
The Canadian government has as many as 45,000 legal claims — big and small — pending against it, representing a potential liability that stretches into the “hundreds of billions of dollars,” CBC News has learned. The breadth and potential depth of the litigation quagmire was the driving force behind the Trudeau government’s recent decision to establish a full cabinet committee to track the …
General Mills’ granola bar company is under fire from consumers. (Nature Valley) Whole grain oats, peanuts and…pesticide? On Wednesday, three lawsuits were filed against General Mills’ granola bar purveyor Nature Valley.
Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Goldcorp Inc. (“Goldcorp” or the “Company”) (NYSE:GG) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in United States District Court, Central District of California, and docketed under 16-cv-06436, is on behalf of a class …