New York Life Insurance Company can now add itself to the list of companies sued by its employees for breach of fiduciary responsibility— but this case is a little different, and the first of its kind. Although suits of these kind typically involve allegations made against multiple types of investments, this case is the first to include allegations exclusively against an index fund. …
But the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Commissioner Emily Johnson Piper, and “a discriminatory residential service system” have kept them from doing so because they have disabilities, says a class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on Wednesday. “I’m 43 years old and I want to have the freedom to make my own choices, basic stuff — like what time I go to …
Communications giant Comcast is facing a lawsuit in Missouri. This is a class-action lawsuit, seeking compensation and punitive damages for all Missouri Comcast customers who purchased the protection plan after August of 2011.
Filthy cells, toilets and walls covered in blood and feces, and sexual harassment by sheriffs’ deputies – those are just some of the things women say they’ve endured at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. Four women who filed a federal lawsuit over the jail’s conditions have settled with Alameda County, and say the fact that they’re white helped bring about the settlement and changes at …
Deerfield Academy has settled a federal lawsuit filed by a former student who accused a former mathematics teacher at the prestigious private school of sexually abusing him. The victim, referred to in the lawsuit as “John Doe” and who was 14 at the time of the 1979 incident, filed it against Peter Hindle, who retired from Deerfield Academy in 2000 after working there for over four …
A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks to allow a Pleasanton man to resume preaching on a public street after he was ticketed three times for noise complaints and had his amplified speech permit revoked by Santa Cruz police. The lawsuit also seeks to overturn two city laws that allow police to issue a city permit for amplified public speech and allows police to revoke the permits …
Not long after photographer Carol Highsmith sued Getty Images for $1 billion, claiming the photo agency had copyrighted thousands of her images without her permission, Getty is facing yet another lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement. Zuma Press, an independent press agency, filed a …
A class action lawsuit accusing Coca-Cola subsidiary Odwalla of misleading consumers by using the term ‘evaporated cane juice’ (ECJ) on labels is now back in play in the wake of the FDA’s finalized guidance – and is likely to be joined by scores of others, predict attorneys. The case* – which was filed in 2013 in California and stayed (put on ice) in 2014 after the FDA said it would conduct a …
Surfrider Foundation Kaua’i Chapter has been working tirelessly to protect coastal water quality throughout Kaua‘i County. In May 2016, Surfrider along with other local Kaua‘i groups filed a Notice of Intent to sue the state agency Agribusiness Development Corporation (“ADC”) for …
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of a Brooklyn girl who died during an asthma attack. The suit was filed against the city and a police officer after it was revealed the officer did not perform CPR. Now the family is speaking out. …