A federal racketeering lawsuit brought by a cooperative of tobacco farmers against two Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) informants, Jason Carpenter and Christopher Small, is headed for trial in the Eastern District of North Carolina Western Division. The complaint alleges that Carpenter and Small swindled the plaintiffs, US Tobacco Cooperative Inc, a co-op made of about …
Relativity has gotten past the first stage in its massive lawsuit against Netflix, but not without a couple of major chops from a Santa Clara Superior Court judge. At a court hearing late last week, Relativity was permitted to move forward on a claim that Netflix breached contract, but had its fair dealing claim as well as a trade libel one stricken. The two companies go way back.
Lawyers for a transgender teenager say they will keep pushing his legal dispute with a Virginia school board to the Supreme Court. The American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) announcement comes one day after the Trump administration rolled back protections for transgender students, potentially impacting 17-year-old Gavin Grimm’s upcoming case. “If anything, the confusion caused by this recent …
The Wahlberg brothers – Mark, Donnie and Paul – are facing a lawsuit from their Massachusetts-based Wahlburgers burger chain business partners and family friends, who claim the Wahlberg brothers left them out of plans to grow the business. According to the Boston Globe, William “Billy” Leonard and Edward St. Croix claim in the lawsuit they were pivotal in the creation of the chain. The first …
Andrea Irwin hugs her son Malik Robinson, 15, outside the state Capitol Thursday as her attorneys discuss the $3.35 million settlement of a lawsuit the family brought against the city and Madison police Officer Matt Kenny after he shot and killed her son Tony Robinson Jr. in 2015.
Unless the Supreme Court decides to weigh in on this long-running SLAPP lawsuit (highly unlikely — and unlikely to be appealed to that level), it looks like it’s finally the end of the line for Dr. Edward Tobinick and his quest to silence a critic of his questionable medical practices. Quick recap: Dr. Tobinick claimed he could treat Alzheimer’s, strokes, and other neurological maladies by …
One of the most successful litigation funding companies in the world has widened its U.S. reach, establishing a base of operations in Texas. On Feb. 21, Bentham IMF announced attorney Eric Chenoweth, a commercial and intellectual property litigator formerly of Yetter Coleman, will head the Australian-based company’s new Houston office. “I believe there are many funding opportunities …
Over 770,00 Hoosiers impacted by Yahoo’s latest massive data breach may be able to take part in a class-action lawsuit against the company. The Indiana Attorney General’s office sent Yahoo a written letter asking for more information about the breach. The company responded, saying Indiana residents impacted by the data breach received notice by email.
President Donald Trump’s plan to round up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants is likely to trigger waves of lawsuits that may soon dwarf the legal fight over the …
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced Tuesday that he’ll not defend the state against a lawsuit from labor over Iowa’s new collective bargaining law. Miller, a Democrat last elected in 2014, said he’ll ask the Iowa Executive Council to seek outside legal help in defending the state against a challenge to the constitutionality of the law, …