A Yucca Valley businesswoman is suing San Bernardino County and a sheriff’s deputy over her arrest and incarceration in December 2014. Lucinda Cox filed her lawsuit in February in federal court in Riverside, alleging that she was arrested on charges that were not thoroughly investigated and jailed at West Valley Detention Center for seven days because her bail had been improperly…
A Class Action lawsuit has been filed following a massive privacy breach at Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville earlier this week that saw the names of 285 families involved with children’s services leaked on Facebook. The class action filed Thursday morning in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on behalf of a person identified only as M.M. names the agency, its…
The owner of a Key West strip club has agreed to pay up to $1.2 million to settle a class-action lawsuit with dancers who went after him for not paying minimum wage or overtime to women he treated as employees although they worked for tips only. The settlement, filed April 8, awaits a federal judge’s approval but was signed March 31 by Mark Rossi, a former Key West city commissioner who owns…
Another major non-profit agency has opted-out of a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit filed against the City of Windsor and Town of Tecumseh. Officials with Brentwood Recovery Home made the decision Tuesday night. Both municipalities launched a campaign urging charities to opt out of the lawsuit, one the city says will cost tax payers an estimated $70-million.
Hyundai Seeks Dismissal of Class Action Over Allegedly “Spontaneously Shattering” Sunroofs A photo of Billy Glenn’s “shattered sunroof,” as a part of the court documents. Hyundai has asked the U.S. District Court of California to dismiss a class action lawsuit brought by vehicles owners who say the automaker’s panoramic sunroofs “spontaneously shatter.” Alabama resident Billy Glenn filed the…
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Thursday that German automaker Volkswagen AG (VW) has reached a settlement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), California officials and consumers over a plan to fix or buy back nearly 600,000 diesel-powered vehicles…
The class-action lawsuit filed against Trump University has been scheduled for a pretrial hearing on Friday, May 6. Former Trump University students filed a case to unseal documents. The plaintiffs claimed that Trump University pitched them expensive real estate course work, sometimes amounting to tens of thousands of dollars, for real estate seminars where students learned only a little.
Securities Investors Association (Singapore), or SIAS, announced this week that it will not hesitate to take errant companies to court – representing minority investors in class-action suits more commonly seen in jurisdictions like the United States. The association’s announcement begs the question: is such an action a viable alternative for minority investors here seeking…
Next week looms large in the troubled history of 12 provincial residential facilities, including locations in Oro-Medonte Township and Muskoka. Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Belobaba will decide Monday whether to approve a $36-million settlement reached last fall between the province and the Toronto-based legal firm acting on behalf of former residents at a dozen facilities like the…
Volkswagen said it has reached a framework agreement with class action plaintiffs in U.S. court proceedings on Thursday. The accord with class action plaintiffs will result in “a comprehensive settlement” in coming weeks, Volkswagen (VW) said in an emailed statement published by its Wolfsburg, Germany-based headquarters. The German carmaker and the U.S. Justice Department…