A lawsuit could cause a big delay in repairs at the site of a sewer collapse in Fraser. Work on the sewer collapse along 15 Mile Road between Hayes and Utica roads has been ongoing since Dec. 24, 2016. That’s when the collapse created a sinkhole beneath the neighborhood.
A two month stay at Brampton Civic Hospital has turned into a traumatic ordeal that Valerie Darrah says she can’t forget, so she’s suing the William Osler Health System — the organization that operates the hospital. Last June, Darrah’s friend brought her to the hospital where she fainted. The 78-year-old then remembers waking up a few days later in the intensive care unit attached to machines.
Courtesy of Apple, most of its chipmaker or designers seem to be having a rough start in 2017. One of these names will have to be the leading American chipmaker, Qualcomm, who Cupertino is presently embroiled in an ongoing patent royalties payment battle with. For those unaware, Apple first took a stand against the chipmaker and lodged a billion lawsuit against them for being charged unfairly …
The Buffalo school district says LGBT students will be allowed to bring same-sex dates to prom and form a club at a high school that was accused of discrimination. Superintendent Kriner Cash and Board President Barbara Seals-Nevergold announced the decision Friday, two days after the New York Civil Liberties Union helped a student file a federal lawsuit claiming unequal …
“We gave it the old college try, and sometimes you take it on the chin,” said Meg Kane, a lawyer for the graduates of the UMD College of Education and Human Service Professions. “They were found negligent, they were found liable — responsible — it just wasn’t a lot of finances awarded.” The former students, who graduated from UMD in December 2014, also alleged fraud and misrepresentation by UMD …
Organizers of the failed Fyre Festival have been hit with another lawsuit — this time from an investor who claims the fiasco was a massive fraud from the start. Oleg Itkin of Manhattan says he handed over $700,000 from January to April after organizer William McFarland showed him a “projected income statement” showing $932 million in expected revenue by November 2017, according to court papers. …
When the state attorney general recently asked Connecticut’s highest court to revive the lawsuit brought by Sandy Hook families against Remington Arms, it might have appeared that he was taking sides. Instead, Attorney General George Jepsen was demonstrating that the families’ longshot lawsuit has broader …
Three years after Kansas City settled claims that it had failed to pay certain overtime wages, Fire Department medical staff are back in court saying the city is circumventing the court’s ruling. A lawsuit filed Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court on behalf of certain emergency medical technicians and paramedics says the city has lowered some pay scales — so that the plaintiffs continue to …
Five current and former Howard University students are alleging in a federal lawsuit that the school didn’t respond quickly and equitably to female students’ sexual assault reports. News outlets report that …
An ex-employee of billion-dollar investment firm Renaissance Technologies is suing chief co-executive Robert Mercer, who reportedly fired the man after he spoke out against Mercer’s political, and allegedly racist, views. The lawsuit, filed by former employee David Magerman on Friday, May 5, accuses Mercer of making a series of racist comments about African-Americans. Magerman claims he asked …