A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of a Brooklyn girl who died during an asthma attack. The suit was filed against the city and a police officer after it was revealed the officer did not perform CPR. Now the family is speaking out. …
Robert Taylor insists he’s a good guy, but says the state of Virginia has treated him like a bad one ever since he got buried under a pile of unpaid traffic tickets, fees and fines. The 28-year-old Richmond man spends weekends in jail, can’t hold a job and does not know how he will ever pay off the nearly $5,000 he owes the state. “I’m not a criminal in any sense of the word,” Robert Taylor …
Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. announces that a complaint has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased the common stock of Insmed Incorporated (“Insmed” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:INSM) between March 18, 2013 and June 8, 2016, inclusive (the “Class Period”), …
Charles Araujo, center, talks about the perceived injustice he and his wife, Evelyn, left, believe to be in the charter school system Thursday. (Photo: Justin Sellers/The Clarion-Ledger) Flanked by her friend Monica Cannon-Butler, Midtown resident Shmea Kelly stood outside of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s downtown Jackson office Wednesday watching as parents and children shouted from a …
A culinary controversy could leave a major pasta company in hot water. The company, Barilla, is facing a lawsuit and some unappetizing allegations. It seems Barilla has some customers boiling, CBS2’s Scott Rapoport reported.
General Electric Co. has agreed to pay Halfmoon $5.6 million to resolve a federal lawsuit the town filed seven years ago seeking reimbursement for the costs of finding an alternate water supply as a result of the company’s PCB dredging project in the upper Hudson River. …
San Antonio-based iHeartMedia Inc. is taking its bondholders back to court, seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages over a previous legal dispute that the radio and billboard giant said delayed plans to refinance its debt and cost it real money. IHeartMedia won a Bexar County state district court lawsuit in May against the same group of bondholders, which was threatening to force the company into technical default …
Friday, July 29, 2016
There have been several recent and interesting updates to the In re Petrobras Securities Litigation, 14-cv-9662 (S.D.N.Y.) that we have discussed several times on this blog. First, the Second Circuit has decided to accept review of the class certification question.
A Chief United States Magistrate Judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state of Alabama against the federal government. The lawsuit was concerning the relocation of refugees, particularly Syrian refugees. Governor Robert Bentley announced the lawsuit in January and said the government violated the Refugee Act of 1980.
Days after being named in a lawsuit, both Townsquare Media and KLAQ-95.5 FM radio host Buzz Adams responded to the lawsuit, saying that the anti-maternity leave allegations made against …