The Conservation Law Foundation wants to take Exxon to court over water pollution in Massachusetts. The Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil on Thursday, arguing that the company is violating several key water regulations at one of their Boston storage and transfer locations. The site in …
Attorneys for the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles and for plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the agency differ by more than $100 million in how much it should repay motorists for overcharged license and title fees. Attorney Irwin Levin of Indianapolis law firm Cohen & Malad LLP argued during a one-day bench trial Wednesday that the BMV should refund a total of $144 million in …
Utah’s system of handling mentally ill criminal defendants appears to be failing, a federal judge said in allowing a civil rights lawsuit to proceed against the state. Because of a persistent backlog at the Utah State Hospital, people judged to be mentally incompetent to stand trail are stacked up in county jails awaiting treatment to restore their competency, the Disability …
The company that manufactures Tasers is knowingly putting “defective, unreasonably dangerous” products in the hands of police, according to a lawsuit from a teenager who was nearly killed by the stun gun. The suit comes just three months after former Independence Police Officer Timothy Runnels was sentenced to prison for violating the civil rights of the teen, Bryce Masters, when the officer …
The establishment’s name might be changed, but its stigma will remain the same after the U.S. Department of Justice filed a discrimination lawsuit on Wednesday. The lawsuit alleges that the owners and operators of 360 Midtown “discriminated against African-American, Hispanic and Asian-American patrons in violation of Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” according to a statement released …
Three companies have been selected to grow or process medical marijuana on the Lower Shore. (Photo: AP file image)
At first, Shore Naturals Rx didn’t make the cut. The Ocean Pines-based company initially placed 21st out of 145 applicants seeking preliminary approval to grow medical marijuana in Maryland.
Dive Brief: Dive Insight: Critics of the rule, including Attorneys General from several of the states in the lawsuit, say if the rule takes effect on time, the result will have disastrous economic repercussions. Business groups — from the hospitality industry to the “prestige”-type workers — also have complained, saying the rule will force employers to shift salaried employees to hourly pay as …
In a written response to the lawsuit filed by 47-year-old Tyrone Morrow Sr., lawyers representing the city denied many of Morrow’s claims, and said that “the stop and investigation of the Plaintiff were lawful and supported by probable cause and reasonable suspicion.” The lawsuit also claims that the city, and officers involved in the incident, “are entitled to the defense of qualified immunity …
Health insurer Cigna answered the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the insurer and its proposed acquirer Anthem Monday, two months after the department sued the payer over antitrust concerns. In the DOJ’s lawsuit, the department claimed Indianapolis-based Anthem and …
Some lawsuits just make you want to roll your eyes. Take, for instance, two different cases over eye drops. In one case, a federal class action lawsuit that has been certified against several drug companies, claiming that the dispenser on their prescription eye drop bottles is too large, causing excessive drops to roll down the plaintiffs’ cheeks.