Yesterday, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) announced that a lawsuit it filed on behalf of two Paradise Valley Community College students last year has been settled—with great results for students at PVCC and the other nine colleges of the Maricopa County Community College District in Arizona. As part of the settlement , MCCCD will eliminate free speech zones on all …
A federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit Friday that accused Nevada officials and the state psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas of violating patients’ civil rights by giving them bus tickets and dumping them in other states. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision said it could not consider the merits of the suit because the plaintiff, James Flavy Coy Brown, failed to raise a …
A federal judge on Friday said he will issue a restraining order against Donald Trump’s campaign and longtime adviser Roger Stone to avoid “harassing or intimidating conduct” at polling places on Nov. 8 Election Day. U.S. District Judge James Gwin did not specify exactly what will or will not be allowed but said the order would …
On Oct. 6, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit decided Nicklaw v. CitiMortgage, Inc ., — F.3d –, 2016 WL 5845682, (11th Cir. 2016), holding that a class action plaintiff who alleged that CitiMortgage violated New York law by failing to timely record a satisfaction of mortgage, lacked Article III standing because he had suffered no concrete injury. Nicklaw is one of the 11th …
Late Monday afternoon, U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver made public the “term sheets” in tentative class-action settlements with West Virginia American Water Co . and Eastman Chemical Co . aimed at resolving litigation over the role both companies played in the water crisis that followed the Jan. 9, 2014, chemical spill at Freedom Industries.
Today in DC District Court, Airbnb successfully blocked a proposed class action alleging racial discrimination on the company’s platform. The lawsuit alleged systematic discrimination by Airbnb hosts, enabled by various design choices made by the company. But after today’s decision, there won’t be a public ruling on the discrimination itself.
An appeals court has reopened a lawsuit challenging a North Carolina county commission’s practice of starting meetings with Christian prayer. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decided Monday that the Rowan County case will be reviewed next year by its full 15-judge bench. In September, a three-judge panel of the Richmond-based court issued a divided ruling upholding commissioners’ right to open …
When the National Football League and retired players settled a class-action lawsuit about brain damage in 2015, the agreement raised as many questions as it answered. The $1 billion question: What did the league know? Because the settlement was reached without the evidence-gathering process known as discovery, the NFL did not have to reveal what it knew about the long-term effects of repeated …
A rally protested New York Police Department surveillance tactics in 2013. Credit Seth Wenig/Associated Press A federal judge has rejected the settlement of a lawsuit stemming from the New York Police Department ’s surveillance of Muslims, saying the proposed deal does not provide enough oversight of an agency that he said had shown a “systemic inclination” to ignore rules protecting free …
More than a dozen state attorneys general last week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a 2013 class action settlement reached over a fitness club company’s gym membership contracts and fees, arguing the agreement could put consumers nationwide at risk. The settlement agreement in Gascho v. Global Fitness Holdings LLC was approved by the U.S. Court of Appeals …