A social media app is now the center of a lawsuit after a teen driver’s car crash left another driver with severe injuries. Christal McGee is accused of trying to capture her alleged 100 mile-per-hour speed for a Snapchat post while gunning her father’s Mercedes C230 in Atlanta last December. McGee, who was 18 at the time, crashed into another …
Those dreams never materialized. InfoSpan is represented by the powerhouse law firm of Boies Schiller & Flexner — chaired by David Boies, among the country’s most well-known attorneys — while the bank hired Latham & Watkins, a large firm with offices worldwide, including in the Emirates. FOR THE RECORD The wealthy Persian Gulf region was of particular interest because of its reliance on 25 …
After obtaining a $1.2 million class-action settlement with a Key West, Florida, strip club for not paying wages to dancers it treated as employees, two lawyers have filed another federal lawsuit with similar allegations against another club called Teasers. In addition to two other lawsuits, this makes a total of three similar lawsuits on behalf of dancers by Scott Atherton of West Palm Beach …
Uber also argued that in one case, the driver wasn’t using the Uber app when he picked up the female victim. However, the judge shot that down too, because the passenger still believed the attacker “was acting in his capacity as an Uber driver,” since he had picked up her group earlier. It’s one more judge independently agreeing that at least as far as it appears, Uber is treating these drivers …
A lawsuit filed after the death of a teenager was moved this week from federal court in Florida to South Carolina. Olivia Paige Grimes, 16, of Lakeland, Florida, died after falling from a rope swing last year at Young Life Camp in Pickens County. In July 2015, Grimes was on a pendulum swing with two …
Jennie Lissarrague Updated: 05/05/2016 1:09 PM Created: 05/05/2016 10:43 AM A former special education teacher has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale School District claiming she lost her job because she reported that she had too many students in her classes, which is a violation of state law. According to the lawsuit, Janna Todd was hired as a special …
Ride-hailing corporation Uber is facing a class action lawsuit after a plaintiff filed a suit in federal court late Wednesday evening claiming officials violated federal telecommunications laws for sending unsolicited text messages to app users. The lawsuit’s plaintiff, local activist Melissa Cubria, filed the suit claiming the company’s text messages to her violated the federal Telephone …
These troopers may not watch enough TV. A lawyer who was busted for staying quiet during a traffic stop in New Jersey is making noise now with a lawsuit against the state police, NJ.com reported. At least three New Jersey troopers insisted after Rebecca Musarra was pulled over that refusing to answer questions was a criminal act, according to the lawsuit. …
The two Planned Parenthood organizations in Kansas and Missouri wasted little time challenging Kansas’ termination of their Medicaid funding. Just a day after the Kansas Department of Health and Environment notified them of its decision to cut off their Medicaid payments, Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and Planned Parenthood of St. Louis Region sued the head of the agency, Susan …
Veteran Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Det. Jeffrey Scozzafava’s lawsuit, in which he alleges that unqualified officials were put in charge of the office’s Forensics Unit, outlines how evidence was improperly handled and, in one high profile case, reportedly destroyed. The lawsuit, filed April 20, claims that when Scozzafava pointed out their errors in several cases, he was retaliated …