The Justice Department filed a brief Monday supporting a class-action lawsuit that claims Virginia suspends poor people’s driver’s licenses in an “unconstitutional scheme,” court documents show. In July, the class-action lawsuit, Stinnie et al. v. Holcomb , was filed in U.S. District Court in Western Virginia against the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, claiming 940,000 people …
Arguments over a lawsuit aimed at restricting who can instantly reveal moves at the World Chess Championship will be heard on Thursday, a day before the games begin. A federal court judge set the hearing to decide whether to block some websites from immediately relaying players’ moves when they begin Friday in New York. World Chess US Inc. and World Chess Events Ltd. sued three …
An inmate who gave birth inside a cell at the Tennessee Prison for Women has filed suit, alleging nurses and a doctor “alternately ignored and only occasionally checked on” the pregnant woman during four hours of labor. (Photo: Getty Images ) The family of a man who died after falling ill in a West Tennessee prison has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against Centurion, the private …
After an election, a president-elect has an enormous amount of work to do. The period between Election Day and Inauguration Day flies by, and an incoming leader has to assemble a team, receive policy briefings, put an agenda in place, and attend a seemingly endless stream of meetings. In Donald Trump’s case, there’s another part of his upcoming schedule that most presidents-elect don’t have to …
Lawyers who won the massive $10.03 billion class-action settlement from Volkswagen Group over software that cheated on emissions tests now want their own payday: $175 million. The extraordinary sum requires extraordinary justification, and lead plaintiffs’ counsel Elizabeth Cabraser hopes her firm’s motion (PDF) on the matter, filed late last night with the judge, will do the trick. “The aggregate fees and costs award… is the equivalent of less than 2 percent of the monetary benefit provided to the Class, far below the …
But what does free speech online have to do with any of this? Airbnb claims that it shouldn’t be on the hook for what users put in their listings, and that it isn’t breaking laws, its users who failed to go through a lengthy registration process for renting out their living spaces are. “Further, Airbnb’s argument that the city violated the First Amendment is moot because the ordinance ‘was not …
In the most recent of three class action lawsuits filed by different plaintiffs attorneys, a California man alleges LG Corp. and Samsung Group engaged in an agreement with each other to provide fixed compensation to their employees to avoid competition. The lawsuit, filed by Andrew Amirnovin in California federal court, also alleges the companies are …
He’ll be the defendant-in-chief. Just weeks after pulling off his implausible presidential victory, President-elect Donald Trump is set to being a civil trial in San Diego involving fraud allegations against his scandal-plagued Trump University. The underlying lawsuit is one of several now ensnaring Trump that will put him in the unprecedented position of defending himself in numerous civil …
Supporters of an East African advocacy group that has filed a “crimes against humanity” lawsuit against anti-homosexuality evangelist pastor Scott Lively gathered in front of the federal courthouse Wednesday morning Dozens of supporters, including 16 Ugandans, some of whom traveled from their country to be present here today, demonstrated outside in advance of a hearing later …
In September, Yahoo announced that at least 500 million user account credentials had been stolen from it in late 2014. Yahoo offered more details on the security breach’s effect on its business in an SEC filing on Wednesday. Although the company says it only spent $1 million related to the breach last quarter, it admitted that the breach may “cause users and customers to curtail or stop using our products and services.” CEO Marissa Mayer said last month that she was …