Judge’s Aetna-Humana ruling sparks class-action lawsuit: 5 things to know Written by Morgan Haefner | February 03, 2017 |Print |Email A Pennsylvania law firm filed a class-action lawsuit against Aetna following a judge’s ruling the payer’s proposed $37 billion acquisition of Humana violated antitrust laws. The lawsuit alleges the Hartford, Conn.-based payer made false claims about its decision …
The years-long legal battle between Zenimax and Oculus drew to a close yesterday, as the court ruled in Zenimax’s favor after two days of deliberations. As a result, Zenimax is owed a total of $500 million for a variety of charges against Oculus, CTO John Carmack, and co-founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe. Now that the dust has had a chance to settle, a pair of legal experts sat down to …
Presenting a reality that’s probably not quite as virtual as they might possibly like, Facebook and its Oculus subsidiary have been hit with more than $500 million in damages in a lawsuit. According to Variety, a judge has ordered the companies to pay the damages to video game publisher ZeniMax Media, who successfully argued that Oculus executives broke their non-disclosure agreements with the …
Republican legislative leaders have voted to hire private attorneys to appeal a court ruling that found Wisconsin’s legislative districts are unconstitutional. The GOP plan would hire the law firms Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Bell Giftos St. John LLC, “and any other firms, entities or counsel deemed necessary for services related to the matter of Whitford v. Gill and legislative redistricting and …
Cinema chain AMC has been hit with a class lawsuit claiming the theater company wrongly added people to marketing lists to send them text messages promoting upcoming movies and encouraging other purchases. On Feb. 1, plaintiff Caleb Baldwin, identified in the document only as a Cook County resident, filed suit in Chicago federal court, alleging Leawood, Kan.-based AMC violated the federal …
Ousted Snapchat early employee Reggie Brown was paid $157.5 million in a settlement in September 2014 to close off a 2013 lawsuit he had brought against other co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, alleging that they had taken his original idea and run with it, pushing him out of the company without compensation in the process. The details were made public for the first time in Snapchat’s …
Eryon Luke, a certified nursing assistant from Louisiana, was fired from her job in 2012 after becoming pregnant with twins. Today, her legal case may determine how other pregnant and breastfeeding women are treated in the workplace. When she became pregnant, Eryon wanted to continue working and, like most people, needed her job.
In 2015, the Free Thought Project broke the story and the video of a courageous mother, Tiffanie Hupp who stepped in front of an officer who was about to shoot her dog. For stopping the trooper from killing her dog and getting slammed to the ground in front of her 4-year-old son, Tiffanie was charged with misdemeanor obstruction. Of course, Hupp pleaded not guilty, as the …
First Lady Melania Trump filed a lawsuit against the Daily Mail’s parent company, Mail Online, and Maryland blogger Webster Griffin Tarpley back in September — and, as of Thursday, the suit against the Mail has been dropped. The defamation claims against the Mail were based on a now-retracted article that included allegations from a Slovenian magazine stating Trump once worked with a modeling …
A few months ago we reported that the “devil was in the details” about how Sony Playstation 3 owners could go about getting either $9 or $55 from Sony as part of a class-action settlement over a 2010 software update that removed the ability to run Linux on the popular gaming consoles. The California judge presiding over the litigation is now killing the proposed settlement amid concerns the …