Federal communications could be made public over proposed shipment to INL Former Gov. Cecil Andrus That’s a total, unthinkable, unacceptable disaster just waiting to happen.” That’s a total, unthinkable, unacceptable disaster just waiting to happen.” Posted: Friday, August 12, 2016 4:00 am Posted on Aug 12, 2016 A U.S. district judge said he wants to review records of communications within the …
A federal judge in Delaware has indefinitely postponed a scheduled September trial in a lawsuit pitting billionaire coal magnate and West Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee James Justice Jr. against a leading U.S. coal exporter. Attorneys for the Virginia-based Justice companies and Pennsylvania-based Xcoal Energy and Resources told the judge Friday that devastating floods …
A federal judge on Friday dismissed the NCAA from a lawsuit that had been filed against the association and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in connection with the academic scandal involving Tar Heels athletes. The case against the university remains in place, pending a jurisdictional …
A federal judge has dismissed a $750 million class-action lawsuit alleging the Army’s reckless handling of chemical and biological toxins caused death and illness among people living near Fort Detrick in Frederick. The Frederick News-Post (http://bit.ly/2buYcdz ) reports that U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake filed the dismissal notice Thursday in Baltimore.
Lawyers dream about doing little to no work and getting paid a fortune for the work they didn’t do. A group of hotshot securities lawyers recently was on the verge of just such a payday. They stood to collect $370,000 in legal fees for work that didn’t benefit their clients one iota.
On Monday, The Office of The Texas Attorney General and the University of Texas at Austin asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit seeking to stop “campus carry”. The lawsuit was brought on from three current UT Austin faculty members: Professors Jennifer Lynn Glass, Lisa Moore and Mia Carter. The three professors sued the state of Texas and the Austin-based university in order to bar …
The siblings of quadruple-murder suspect Nicolas Holzer filed a lawsuit in Santa Barbara County Superior Court last week aiming to prevent him from inheriting property or other assets from the trust of his deceased parents, whom he is accused of killing. Holzer faces four murder charges for allegedly murdering his parents and his two children: William Charles Holzer, 73, Sheila Garard Holzer, …
Canadians should not expect the federal government to collect any cash from Volkswagen as a penalty for lying about emissions levels. In late June, the United States government announced a US$15.3-billion civil settlement with the German automaker that included US$2.7 billion for the public sector to spend on environmental mitigation efforts. Several diesel-powered VW models had so-called …
Today, a New York judge threw out a controversial consent decree that would have ratcheted up state oversight of New York City’s foster care system. In her straightforward opinion, New York District Judge Laura Swain denied a proposed settlement to a July 2015 class action lawsuit that had accused both New York State and City of allowing foster youth to languish in care. “The opinion …
Rulings to be made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on cases related to class certification could have a significant impact on a split between federal court stances on how strict the criteria for certification should be, especially for suppliers of dietary supplements faced with lawsuits in California courts. “If class members must have some …