A circuit court judge ruled in favor of the state Department of Natural Resources in a lawsuit over the expansion of railroads in La Crosse. Citizens activists filed the lawsuit in March 2015 claiming DNR officials didn’t fully evaluate the environmental impacts of adding a second railroad track through the La Crosse River marsh. But La Crosse Circuit Judge Scott Horne found that DNR officials …
Updated: May 24, 2016 – 10:52 AM State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has announced a consumer protection lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson regarding its marketing of a surgical mesh used to treat pelvic floor conditions in women. The AG’s office says a result, thousands of Washington women face urinary and defecatory dysfunction, loss of sexual function, chronic inflammation, chronic pain and …
Suzanne Mendonca, a former contestant on The Biggest Loser, is spearheading a class-action lawsuit against the show, saying producers withheld water from contestants, forced them to overexercise, and “discarded them when the cameras stopped rolling,” TMZ reports. Mendonca, who appeared on Season 2 of the weight-loss reality show, and other disgruntled former contestants recently spoke to the …
Parents from around Texas including one from the Orangefield School District have filed a lawsuit in Austin looking to throw out the results of this year’s STAAR test scores. The lawsuit claims the test is too long and has caused harm to thousands of students, teachers, and schools in the state of Texas. Jennifer Rumsey has been a teacher in the Orangefield School District for over 17 years and …
Those assurances came at a time when ManorCare was aware of the more than $6 billion in false claims billed by the company, Legal NewsLine reported. That billing fraud resulted in a series of whistleblower allegations against the provider, consolidated into one suit by the Department of Justice last year. News of the fraud resulted in a decline of HCP stock, which subsequently hurt investors, …
The family of a 95-year-old World War II vet, who died in July 2013 after a Park Forest police officer fired beanbag rounds at him when he threatened police with a knife, has agreed to a settlement of a federal lawsuit against the officer and the village, according to court documents. Sharon Mangerson, stepdaughter of John Wrana Jr., filed the wrongful death complaint in June 2014, seeking $5 …
While Frontier’s bungled Texas, California, and Florida acquisitions are getting lots of press, the company continues to face a lawsuit from West Virginia customers (also acquired from Verizon) who say the company consistently fails to deliver advertised speeds. Despite Frontier’s best attempt to force angry customers into binding arbitration, last December a Judge let the class action lawsuit …
A class action lawsuit against food and beverage company Mondelez International claiming some of its packaging contains non-functional slack fill is just the latest example of customers suing over what they see as deceptive marketing, a consumer advocate says. “We have seen great number of cases being brought in regard to non-functional slack fill,” Bonnie Patten, …
It was August 2014 when a day of rain caused the worst flooding our area has ever seen. Now almost two years later, flood victims are suing their cities and some lawmakers are trying to stop lawsuits like these from taking place. ROYAL OAK, Mich. …
Moore Stephens’ Hong Kong firm won a victory in a New York federal appeals court on a case that could have a far-reaching impact on class-action lawsuits involving audit reports. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed last Friday prior rulings in a securities class-action lawsuit against Moore Stephens Hong Kong for its audits of Puda Coal, a publicly traded, U.S.-listed …