Two separate lawsuits have been filed against a Jackson apartment complex following the May shooting death of a 19-year-old at the same time family members of the victim fight over who should be the executor of …
The family of a Gig Harbor man killed a year ago by a falling tree filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against eight companies involved with logging the site where the tree fell. Jennifer Lee Morgan, wife of Jamie Fay, 36, filed the suit in Pierce County Superior Court. Fay died Aug. 29, 2015, when an unseasonable windstorm toppled a Douglas fir tree that fell onto his car as he drove along …
A landowner couple in Bradford County, PA, Edward and Kathleen Ostroski, filed a royalty lawsuit against Chesapeake Energy claiming Chesapeake was screwing them out of money by conducting “creative” accounting and deducting expenses that shouldn’t be deducted. Seems like there’s hardly a state where Chessy drills where someone …
A Metro employee is suing the agency for at least $200,000 after she says a supervisor repeatedly asked her for hugs and her bosses eventually retaliated against her for reporting the sexual harassment. The lawsuit filed in federal court accuses Metro supervisors of ignoring the unwanted advances, even though another assistant superintendent in the bus division told the Upper …
Three journalists who reported on the 2014 Ferguson riots for Al-Jazeera America filed suit Monday against St. Charles County and three police officers, claiming personal injuries and violations of their constitutional rights. The suit by Ash-har Quraishi, Marla Cichowski and Sam Winslade in U.S. District Court in St. Louis names St. Charles County, Deputy Michael Anderson of the …
City attorneys want a federal judge to toss a lawsuit filed by a Tulane professor last month that argues the city should remove the statue of Andrew Jackson from Jackson Square if it also takes down Confederate monuments. In a filing with the U.S. District Court on Monday (Aug. 15), the city argues it has the right to target removal of Confederate monuments over others in the city, and …
A Memphis woman has filed a federal lawsuit regarding the Beale Street Bucks program and fast pass tickets. In June, a cover charge was implemented for those over 21 years of age to get on Beale Street after hours on the weekend. The cost was $10, which includes $7 in vouchers.
SolarCity has landed in legal trouble as a class-action lawsuit has been filed against it in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that acquired its securities between May 5, 2015, and February 9, 2016, announced the Wagner Firm, which filed the lawsuit. Anyone who is a member of the class described above and …
A federal judge has dismissed a $750 million class-action lawsuit alleging the Army’s reckless handling of chemical and biological toxins caused death and illness among people living near Fort Detrick in Frederick. The Frederick News-Post (http://bit.ly/2buYcdz ) reports that U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake filed the dismissal notice Thursday in Baltimore.
“This case is the extraordinarily rare one in which Class Counsel both detected the wrong-doing and then single-handedly enforced the law,” said a leading national expert on class action law. Retained by class counsel to provide his opinion to the Court on counsel’s request for attorneys’ fees, he noted that …