A woman has filed a lawsuit against the Phoenix suburb of Avondale and two of its police officers, claiming they forced her to take a sobriety test at the side of a city street while she was naked from the waist down. The lawsuit filed earlier this month said the woman had removed her pants before the 2016 traffic stop because she had soiled them earlier due to an incontinence problem. The …
A Maryland judge is scheduled to hold a hearing on a lawsuit stemming from President Donald Trump’s travel ban. Several individuals and groups including the American Civil Liberties Union originally filed the lawsuit in February over the initial ban, which was blocked in court and later revised.
A Lakeland man’s federal lawsuit alleges thousands of people are in danger of radioactivity, living in communities developed on top of former phosphate mines. Jeff Jerue filed the lawsuit last week against Alabama-based Drummond Company on behalf of property owners of the Oakbridge and Grasslands developments. According to Jerue, the picturesque neighborhood he grew to love is now harboring a …
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Tuesday against U.S. agencies for violating the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Paxton’s suit asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to force an up or down vote by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the licensing of the Yucca Mountain as well as to stop the Department of Energy from spending tax dollars on “consent-based” siting. “For decades, …
Some of Lakeland’s nicest homes may be sitting on contaminated soil. A new class action lawsuit says that the level of radioactivity in some areas of The Grassland, Oakbridge and the …
We’re hearing directly from the homeowner at the center of a federal lawsuit that claims thousands of Lakeland homes are sitting on a toxic time bomb. Jeff Jerue claims the developer didn’t bring in enough dirt to keep dangerous radiation from posing a threat. “They built these houses in kind of a cancer incubator here,” said Jurue.
Uncertainty now surrounds two upscale subdivisions in Lakeland following the filing of a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of people who own property or live in the Oakbridge and Grasslands subdivisions in Lakeland. Grasslands is a premier golf community with upscale housing.
A participant in the Seventy Seven Energy Inc. Retirement & Savings Plan has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the plan and a class of similarly situated participants in the plan against the 401(k) Fiduciary Committee, other plan fiduciaries, as well as Delaware Charter Guarantee & Trust Company d/b/a Principal Trust Company. The lawsuit alleges that Committee Defendants and Principal Trust …
Unionized workers and other individual and institutional investors a $165 million all-cash settlement on Wednesday in connection with losses from securities issued by, NovaStar Mortgage Inc, The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Wells Fargo, and Deutsche Bank. This settlement will end the nine-year class action lawsuit if approved by the U.S. District Court. The class action lawsuit settled on …
The number of securities class action settlements approved by U.S. courts in 2016 was 85, the highest level since 2010, according to a report issued Wednesday by Boston-based Cornerstone Research. Total settlement dollars approved in 2016 was $5.99 billion, or almost double 2015’s $3.07 billion, according to the report, “Securities Class Action Settlements – 2016 Review and Analysis.” A total …