Leonardo DiCaprio will have to find time in his busy schedule of dating models and making movies to be questioned under oath in a lawsuit filed by a lawyer who claims he was defamed by a character in the film “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Long Island Magistrate Judge Steven Locke ruled on Thursday that the actor “will be produced” for his deposition “at a reasonable time and place agreed to by the …
Fired Baylor head football coach Art Briles is ripping his former employer, accusing the school of wrongful termination and indicating he has no interest in settling a federal lawsuit filed against him and the university by a woman who was raped by a football player. In a motion filed Thursday, Briles said he wants a judge to assign him new counsel and his personal attorney, Ernest Cannon, said …
On Tuesday, the family of Nohemi Gonzalez, a woman killed in terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015, sued the three tech giants in federal court for unspecified damages. In a 39-page civil complaint, the family’s attorneys argue that the defendants provide “material support to ISIS”—as the companies make …
When a paper was retracted earlier this year with an opaque notice, we set out to figure out why. We’re still not entirely clear of the reason, but we’ve uncovered one aspect of the paper that raised objections from another researcher: The paper, on internet trolling, included an email he sent without his permission. The retraction sparked our interest, both because of the journal’s opaque …
Three women workers and the SEIU California State Council filed a proposed class-action lawsuit Wednesday in Los Angeles, challenging what they allege is systemic gender discrimination in California’s workers’ compensation system. The lawsuit names as defendants numerous government officials and entities, including the state Department of Industrial Relations and the Division of Workers’ …
Schuette(Photo: Jake May | MLive.com) Lansing — Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is aiming to collect “hundreds of millions” of dollars from two engineering firms he claims contributed to the Flint water contamination crisis and hopes to do so in a few years — not a decade or more. But legal experts say the state has to clear several legal hurdles before it could command a lucrative …
Volkswagen diesel owners aren’t the only ones affected by the VW’s ongoing emissions cheating scandal. The company’s dealers have acutely felt the impact of the scandal, in the form of deflating sales figures. The proposed settlement announced last month offers cash payments to owners of 2.0-liter TDI models, who can either …
The families of victims of Hamas sued Facebook for $1 billion, saying the company allowed Hamas to use the social media outlet to plan attacks. The lawsuit, filed Sunday in U.S. District Court in New York, alleges Facebook “knowingly provided material support and resources to Hamas, a notorious terrorist organization that has engaged in and continues to commit terror …
Investors believed that the company’s leadership had committed securities fraud by saying that the printers in question were of good quality. The court responded by describing the statements as “non-actionable puffery,” the sort of easily-ignored, meaningless goodwill-generating business speak that CEOs often say. In addition, the court found that while there was some internal discussions about …
Earlier this year, Voltage Pictures, which previously engaged in a lengthy court battle to require Canadian ISPs to disclose the names of alleged file sharers, adopted a new legal strategy. While the company obtained an order to disclose names in the earlier case, it came with conditions and costs. Its latest approach involves filing a reverse class action lawsuit against an unknown number of …