New York’s subway system is one of the most robust in the world. It provides nearly 1.8 billion rides every year, giving the city the highest rate of public transportation usage out of any metropolitan area in the United States. But for hundreds of thousands of disabled New Yorkers, commuting through a vast majority of the city’s subway stations is simply impossible.
Residents of the building have filed a lawsuit over a fire in West Oakland that left four people dead. Candice Nguyen reports. Survivors of a deadly fire that tore through a West Oakland halfway house last month sued their former landlord and the nonprofits that acted as master tenants Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court, saying their slum-like housing conditions were illegal and led to …
Calling the New York City subway system “the least accessible in the country,” disability advocates announced that they filed two class action lawsuits against the MTA for “excluding people with disabilities.” One lawsuit against the agency, filed in state court, claims a huge majority of the system’s stations are inaccessible to people who can’t use stairs. The other, filed in federal court, …
A firearms advocacy group has gone to court to challenge the constitutionality of California’s new assault weapons ban, as well as other major gun control laws passed last year by the Democratic-controlled state Legislature, arguing that “assault weapon” is a “political term.” The California Rifle & Pistol Association filed a lawsuit against the state Monday in federal court targeting six laws …
Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (“Citizens” or the “Company”) (NYSE:CFG) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in United States District Court, Southern District of New York, is on behalf of a class consisting of …
Netgear is facing a class action lawsuit centered on allegations that a DOCSIS 3.0 modem model from the vendor suffers from a “serious defect” that results in high spikes in network latency and degraded internet connections. Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe said it filed the suit April 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The suit is focused on …
On Tuesday, as the FEC case restarted in Salt Lake City’s U.S. District Court, Johnson’s attorney said his decision not to cooperate with the government stems in part from the Swallow case. Johnson was ordered to a 30-day jail sentence for refusing to testify and has been held in solitary confinement since he was returned to a California federal prison where he is serving an 11-year sentence …
A wrongful death lawsuit seeking at least $1 million in damages has been filed by the son of one of the 13 victims killed March 29 in a fatal head-on collision near Garner State Park. It is the first legal action filed by family members in the wake of the tragedy involving members of the First Baptist Church in New Braunfels who were leaving a retreat in Leakey. Attorney …
Bose Corp spies on its wireless headphone customers by using an app that tracks the music, podcasts and other audio they listen to, and violates their privacy rights by selling the information without permission, a lawsuit charged. The complaint filed on Tuesday by Kyle Zak in federal court in Chicago seeks an injunction to stop Bose’s “wholesale disregard” for the privacy of customers who …
On Wednesday morning, ahead of a Pulaski County Circuit Court hearing, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed a response to the temporary restraining order filed by a drug distributor and motioned to dismiss the lawsuit. Rutledge stated three claims for the dismissal of the suit: only the Arkansas Supreme Court can issue a stay of an execution when a suit is in state courts, McKesson …