The Los Angeles City Attorney alleged Thursday that top managers at a consulting firm hired by the Department of Water and Power authorized inflated time records to earn payments for work the firm never performed, then spent the money on prostitutes, hotels and bottle service liquor for two Las Vegas bachelor parties. A motion filed in Los Angeles Superior Court seeks to expand the civil …
A federal judge ruled in favor of the city of Portland on Thursday in a lawsuit brought by a white, American-born taxicab driver who claimed he was a victim of discrimination for being denied one of 43 permits to work as part of the Portland International Jetport’s taxi pool. The driver, Paul McDonough of South Portland, claimed in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland in 2015 …
Friday marks one year since a train carrying a flammable liquid derailed in Blount County, catching fire and forcing thousands of people to leave their homes. After the derailment and evacuations, lawsuits started to be filed, some on behalf of residents and first responders. There are two lawsuits in federal court.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been awarded $3 billion in a lawsuit it brought against Oracle five years ago over a now largely forgotten Intel processor. The two sides had been fighting over Oracle’s decision to stop developing versions of its software for Intel’s Itanium, a server chip that never found much success in the market. After the jury verdict Thursday, Oracle said it planned to appeal.
Over 22 million people could take part in the lawsuit. Netflix has been increasing the price of it’s subscription service for a while now, and while we all sit back and complain about the price hikes, one customer has taken it to a whole other level. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that a customer is suing Netflix for the recent price hike, and claims 22 million others have been affected as …
An age-discrimination lawsuit filed by two people who interviewed unsuccessfully for jobs at Google could expand to encompass other individuals if a motion filed this week is successful. The motion for conditional certification of collective action status was filed in a San Jose federal court Wednesday. Computerworld reports that the motion, which is similar to a class action, aims to include …
Cinemark, the company that owns the Aurora cineplex where 12 people were murdered in 2012, is seeking nearly $700,000 from several victims of the attack who unsuccessfully sued the theater chain. Lawyers for Cinemark earlier this month filed a “bill of costs” for $699,187.13 in Arapahoe County District Court. Colorado court rules say that the winning side in a civil case is allowed to recover …
Producers of Broken City defrauded investors out of millions, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in L.A. County Superior Court. Nemesis Finance is suing Randall Emmett/George Furla Productions and both men as individuals for breach of contract, fraud and violation of the RICO Act. The producers aren’t strangers to legal hot water; they’ve recently been sued over Heist and Motor City and are …
WILMINGTON, Del., June 29, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Andrews & Springer LLC, a boutique securities class action law firm focused on representing shareholders nationwide, announced today that a class action lawsuit has been filed by another law firm on behalf of stockholders of Qlik Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLIK) (“Qlik” or the “Company”) seeking to challenge the Company’s recently announced …
T. Rowe Price Group and Dell have reached a settlement over the computer giant’s $25 billion buyout, a deal the Baltimore money management firm opposed but voted in favor of in an embarrassing and unusual technical mix-up. The settlement resolves a lawsuit in which T. Rowe and other investors argued that Dell founder Michael Dell undervalued the company in his bid to take it private in 2013. A …