When asked on MSNBC why he went to The New Yorker with the story, Farrow replied: “You would have to ask NBC and NBC executives about the details.” Ronan Farrow told Rachel Maddow on Tuesday that he was threatened personally with a lawsuit by Harvey Weinstein while reporting on what ended up becoming a New Yorker feature. “In the course of this reporting, I was threatened with a lawsuit …
A gun control group has filed suit against a bump stock manufacturer seeking damages and counseling for the survivors of a mass shooting in Las Vegas earlier this month. Gunman Stephen Paddock had 12 rifles mounted with bump stocks when he fired from his 32nd floor suite in the Mandalay Hotel at the street-level Route 91 Harvest Festival, before killing himself. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed the class action suit against …
The lower level of 201 Poplar is full of people waiting for traffic court. Some will get fines, others will get their licenses suspended. Derrick McNeal knows plenty about that.
Sage Memorial Hospital in Ganado, Arizona, has settled its lawsuit against the Indian Health Service for $200 million, according to a press release from Razaghi Health Care, the hospital’s management company. Entrance to Sage Memorial Hospital. (Times file photo – Donovan Quintero) The hospital had sued the IHS in 2013 after the government agency terminated its PL 93-638 contract, citing an …
The following statement is being issued by Levi & Korsinsky, LLP: To: All persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired securities of SCANA Corporation (“SCANA”) (NYSE: SCG) between January 19, 2016 and September 22, 2017. You are hereby notified that a securities class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the District of …
A father has filed a federal lawsuit against Shawnee Mission schools alleging the district failed to report sexual assault accusations against a middle school boy who later assaulted his eighth-grade daughter in class. According to court documents, the lawsuit claims the boy “forcibly put his hands down [her] pants and penetrated her” in a study hall classroom at Westridge …
City Commissioners agreed to settle a lawsuit with Big Rivers Electric, pushing the city a step closer to the end of a long-standing dispute with the electric company. Henderson Municipal Power and Light could receive $6.25 million to settle the lawsuit, which stems from a 2009 spat over whether the city had the rights to sell excess energy it bought from Big Rivers. Henderson City Commission and Mayor Steve Austin unanimously approved a resolution to accept the settlement at a September meeting. The deal isn’t final, yet. Henderson Municipal Power & Light General Manager Chris Heimgartner said …
A Collierville man has been awarded more than $140 million in a lawsuit against the makers of a testosterone drug that he says caused him to have a heart attack. A federal court jury in Chicago handed down the verdict in favor of Jeffrey Konrad on Thursday after several weeks of testimony in which his lawyers argued that Chicago-based AbbVie Inc. misrepresented the risks of its drug known as AndroGel. AbbVie was ordered to pay …
Muhammad Ali Enterprises on Tuesday filed a $30 million federal lawsuit against Fox Broadcasting Company, claiming Fox used without permission the late boxer’s identity in a video that aired just before its broadcast of the Super Bowl last February. In the lawsuit filed in Chicago, Muhammad Ali Enterprises contends that Fox used Ali’s “name, image and likeness as the centerpiece of its three- …
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court (“USSC”) will hear arguments in a matter fundamental to how employers and their employees and contractors argue about rights and entitlements. The USSC can, in these matters, equip employers with powerful tools to shut down cases that look like the currently raging Uber class action and the important Microsoft class action (2000), the latter of which resulted in thousands of contractors becoming employees and receiving benefits and equity. …