Both sides found something to be happy about in a federal judge’s ruling last week in a class-action lawsuit seeking damages from lost sales and reduced prices as a result of China’s rejection of corn shipments from the U.S. in November 2013. U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum, in Kansas City, Kansas, rejected the basis for a nationwide class on the plaintiffs’ …
A Texas court has granted a request for a 60-day delay in litigation over the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s electronic record-keeping rule. U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay, who is overseeing litigation filed by industry groups against the OSHA rule, granted a motion by the Trump administration last week and stayed the case until June 5. The deadline to submit a …
Protesters rallied outside police headquarters Saturday, calling on the El Cajon Police Department to fire the officer who shot and killed Alfred Olango back in September of 2016. In Olango’s case, attorneys argued that Officer Richard Gonsalves “aggressively confronted Olango and cornered him.” They allege the officer’s demeanor provoked Olango to take a shooting stance, …
A federal judge has granted the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s request to dismiss the school from a lawsuit filed by two former Tar Heels athletes tied to its multiyear academic scandal. In a Wednesday ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Loretta C. Biggs stated the school had 11th Amendment immunity as an arm of the state that prevented it from being sued in federal court. The …
A lawsuit alleging Costco illegally charged New Jersey residents sales tax for toilet paper has been dismissed by a U.S. District Court judge. Robert Arnold of Leonia filed suit after claiming the wholesaler charged him and his wife 7 percent sales tax on toilet paper twice in 2015 – once at the Wayne store and another time at the Hackensack store, which has since moved to Teterboro. …
A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday kicked an Exxon Mobil Corp lawsuit seeking to thwart two states from pursuing a fraud case over climate change to a Manhattan court, saying his court wasn’t the best place to resolve the dispute. A group of state attorneys general, led by New York’s Eric Schneiderman, brought a securities fraud suit against the world’s largest publicly …
A U.S. judge will hear arguments on Thursday over whether to grant final approval to a $25 million settlement of fraud lawsuits against President Donald Trump over his Trump University real estate investment seminars, with at least one former student objecting to the deal. Sherri Simpson of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who paid $19,000 to learn Trump’s investing …
The Michigan Supreme Court has decided not to take up the case of a Detroit-area man, against MSNBC. The Associated Press reports that Keith Todd was identified, in 2011, on the MSNBC show, “Caught on Camera: Dash Cam Diaries,” stealing a limousine. Todd was wrongly identified as the thief, because the actual suspect had a similar name.
Brazilian miner Vale SA says the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has annulled nearly all parts of a class action lawsuit against the company and executives over the collapse of a tailings dam in Brazil in 2015. The only parts of the case, over the Samarco disaster that killed 19 people, that remain ongoing are linked to specific statements made by Vale in 2013 …
A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a class action lawsuit settlement that would ban the San Juan County Detention Center from cooperating with federal authorities on immigration holds. The Friday decision came as the Trump administration publicly shamed counties and cities that don’t cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The settlement is a result …