The city of Oakland this week joined dozens of other cities and counties around the country in filing a “friend of the court” brief supporting a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order to deny federal funds to sanctuary cities. On Wednesday, 34 cities and counties, including Oakland, New Orleans, Chicago, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, filed the brief in …
The fight to allow fracking in Wayne County has been shot down. A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit this week that sought to have a natural gas well pad on hunting club land in northern Wayne County. The Delaware River Basin Commission, which regulates drilling in the area, does not have regulations in place for fracking like the rest of the state, essentially putting a …
Associated Wholesale Grocers and potato industry defendants have resolved a lawsuit alleging price fixing by the United Potato Growers of America. “All legal matters between Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc. and potato industry defendants, including United Potato Growers of America, have been successfully resolved,” according to a statement from the potato group March …
DirecTV and its owner, AT&T, have promised the US Department of Justice that they will not illegally share information with rival pay-TV providers in order to keep the price of TV channels down. The DOJ sued DirecTV and AT&T in November 2016, saying the satellite-TV company colluded with competitors during contentious negotiations to broadcast Los Angeles Dodgers games. AT&T initially said that …
Angry Shelby GT350 owners are suing Ford in federal court for $228 million. The lawsuit claims that transmissions and differentials on their high-performance pony cars are allegedly overheating at high speeds, sending the car into limp mode, specifically during use on the track. …
A federal lawsuit has been filed against the city of Baton Rouge on behalf of at least seven Baton Rouge residents. The lawsuit filed by attorneys from the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center in New Orleans claims that arrests during protests were part of a pattern of “racist law enforcement” in the city. The factual grounds for the lawsuit go back to incidents that occurred in the …
he family of a New Jersey woman who died after using a prescription version of the potent opioid fentanyl filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against the drug’s maker, her doctor, and a specialty pharmacy that provided the drug. The lawsuit, filed in a New Jersey state court, alleges 32-year-old Sarah Fuller was the victim of a nationwide push by Insys Therapeutics to entice doctors to …
You could be due a partial refund from “Harbor Freight” if you were a customer between April 8th, 2011 and December 15th, 2016. The company has settled a class-action lawsuit which alleged the company advertised merchandise as “on sale” or “comp at” prices were based on prices that didn’t exist within 28 of the past 90 days. The refund available is between 20-30% of the “You Saved” value on …
The rapper and mogul’s Revolt cable network is at the centre of legal action from a group of former employees Diddy has responded to a racial discrimination lawsuit that has been brought against his television network, Revolt. The cable network are being sued by a group of former employees – who all served on the production staff of the televised version of Revolt’s popular radio show The …
Nicole Curtis is firing back following news she is being sued by the city of Minneapolis over a house she purchased for $2. The “Rehab Addict” star took to Facebook to say she has been “threatened and harassed” over her work in Minneapolis. “I fight for the underdog,” Curtis wrote Thursday night.