A group of Greeley residents are suing the state over drilling regulations known as “setbacks.” State regulations require oil and gas sites to be 1,000 feet away from structures like schools and 500 feet from residences. The point of contention is a proposed 24 well-pad project by Extraction Oil and Gas, just outside the of the city of Greeley boundary. The project has been approved by Weld …
Three more La Vernia High School students were arrested this week in connection with a hazing case that has ripped through the small town 30 minutes southeast of San Antonio. The arrests were made at the school and bring the total number of arrests in the case to 13. The arrests are part of an ongoing investigation into alleged sexual assaults dating back to 2014.
The Daily Mail has apologized to Melania Trump and agreed to pay damages to settle a lawsuit filed by the first lady after the publisher made false claims about her work as a professional model. The settlement was announced in a joint statement from the Daily Mail and Trump’s lawyers. “We accept that these allegations about Mrs. Trump are not true and …
Uber Technologies Inc. was considering buying the driverless-car startup of a former Google engineer two days after he resigned from the tech giant, and was already anticipating a lawsuit if it did, attorneys for Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG, +0.07%GOOGL, +0.08% said in federal court here Wednesday. The new evidence appears to affirm allegations by Google’s driverless-car …
An explosive high-school sexual assault scandal rocking the small town of La Vernia, Texas, widened Tuesday, with the arrest of three additional students and the filing of a federal lawsuit alleging school officials knew about criminal hazing going on in the athletic program and failed to protect student victims. Colton Weidner, Christian “Brock” Roberts, and John Rutkowski, all 18 and members …
The Trump administration has not yet released concrete details to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but it already faces the first of what could be a litany of lawsuits against the president’s signature proposal. The Center for Biological Diversity, a Tucson-based conservation group, and U.S. Congressman Raul Grijalva, who represents a broad swath of the Arizona border, filed the suit on Wednesday in a Tucson federal court targeting the environmental and fiscal impact of building a nearly 2,000-mile border wall. …
The taxi industry’s legal challenge over Miami-Dade’s Uber law hit a roadblock this week after a judge declared the year-old county law a reasonable attempt to regulate the taxicabs’ new competitors. “Taxicabs have not, for now, become obsolete,” U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles wrote in an opinion released Monday. “As with all services and industries, markets ebb and flow, and change requires …
A Montgomery County judge has thrown out claims against former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley that were filed by ex-bodyman and confidante Ray Lewis in an unlawful termination lawsuit. Circuit Judge Truman M. Hobbs ruled that Bentley is protected by state immunity because he was acting in his official capacity when Lewis claims he was forced to retire.
The courts could risk a flood of new litigation, which could chill efforts to object to future class action settlements, if a judge allows a prominent Chicago class action trial law firm to continue with a class action lawsuit accusing a rival firm of racketeering for acting as “professional objectors,” bent on extorting payoffs, according to a motion filed by that rival firm. On Monday, April …
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s bid to dismiss two of the four female plaintiffs in a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the bank of discriminating against women in pay and promotions. Continue Reading Below U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan said former vice president Mary De Luis’ claims did not become moot when she resigned last …