Former City of Spokane employee Nancy Goodspeed filed a $1 million lawsuit against the City late Monday afternoon, claiming her rights were violated when she took time off for surgery only to return and find her job filled by someone else. Goodspeed, the former community affairs coordinator …
Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers squared off Tuesday in court with lawyers for a defunct mortgage company’s creditors and investors over a $5.5 billion lawsuit, which claimed the Big Four firm failed through years of audits to uncover massive fraud at a failed Alabama bank. The estimated $21 billion fraud at Colonial Bank of Montgomery, Alabama, was orchestrated by top executives at the …
Attorneys began questioning witnesses Monday in a defamation lawsuit involving an e-mail the state treasurer’s Chief of Staff Jim Harris sent out and released to KATV, as well as whether the e-mail at the center of the defamation suit led to Treasurer Dennis Milligan firing former employee David Singer. Singer is suing Jim Harris, alleging “slanderous and defamatory remarks” in regard to …
For 18 months, Haidar Omarali says he was told when and where to work by multimillion-dollar utilities retailer Just Energy. He was told what to say to customers courtesy of a pre-written script, what to wear in the form of company branded clothing, and was trained, supervised and disciplined by his company. Sound like an employee to you?
Police officers in South Carolina and eight other states could join a class-action lawsuit in hopes of getting back the money they spent to fend off allegations of misconduct. Slager hearing A hearing this week in the federal criminal case against Michael Slager has been rescheduled for Friday. Slager is charged with three federal counts in last year’s shooting death of Walter Scott that was …
The complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Fiat made falseand misleading statements and/or failed to disclose material facts aboutits business and operations. Specifically, the Company misrepresentedits growth by purposefully inflating the vehicle …
At least 13,000 and possibly as many as 15,000 residents living near the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant may be entitled to approximately $12,000 each. It’s part of a class action lawsuit filed 26 years ago against Dow Chemical and Rockwell International. Those entitled to money must have owned property near the former site as of June 7, 1989.
On behalf of Christie’s, Inc., Skadden secured the denial of a motion to alter or amend judgment, preserving the previously granted dismissal with prejudice of a class action in which several prominent artists or their representatives had sought to enforce the …
A U.S. court temporarily suspended a class action case against Brazil’s state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA and extended the period for defining the terms of the case, a source with direct knowledge of the proceedings said on Tuesday. Petrobras, as the company is commonly known, is the center of a massive corruption investigation in Brazil known as Operation Car …
Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC reminds investors that a securities class action has been filed on behalf of those who purchased shares of K12, Inc. (“K12” or the “Company”) (NYSE: LRN) during the period between November 7, 2013 and October 27, 2015, inclusive (the “Class Period”). This class action seeks to recover damages against Defendants …