A Baton Rouge Police officer who was seriously injured during a protest has filed a lawsuit against the national Black Lives Matter movement. FILE – In this Saturday, July 9, 2016, file photo, police officers arrest activist DeRay McKesson during a protest along Airline Highway, a major road that passes in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters in …
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has demanded that a $1billion lawsuit be thrown out after a former porn star accused him of ruining her adult film career by allowing lies that she was born a man to be spread on the social media site. Former porn star Paree La’Tiejira, aka Lady Paree, filed a suit against Facebook and its CEO earlier this year accusing them of libel and intentional infliction of …
Netflix is looking to strike down a $1.5 billion lawsuit from Relativity Media claiming breach of contract and libel, saying the embattled production company only wants to blame the streaming giant for its failure. The lawsuit from Relativity, on which TheWrap reported exclusively in October , said Netflix acted in “bad faith” over an output deal that paid millions to Ryan Kavanaugh’s company …
The New Jersey State Democratic Committee has filed a lawsuit to bar the New Jersey Oath Keepers – which has been described as a militia extremist group – from monitoring polling places on Election Day, arguing it would amount to voter intimidation. The complaint was filed late Thursday night in U.S. District Court against the Oath Keepers. Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage, attended a meeting last …
Chadbourne & Parke filed a counterclaim Thursday that alleges the lawyer who initially sued the firm in a $100 million pay class action breached her fiduciary duty by revealing confidential financial information and engaging in “a nationwide smear campaign” …
Yasser Awaad Depositions are underway for a potential jury trial next year for Yasser Awaad, M.D., a pediatric neurologist formerly with Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center in Dearborn who is accused in a class action lawsuit of falsely diagnosing epilepsy in hundreds of children in Southeast Michigan in the mid-2000s. Awaad has been compared by the attorneys of the children and their families …
A University of Virginia (UVA) dean triumphed in her lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine Friday, with a jury finding the magazine liable for defaming her in an article about a bogus gang-rape on campus. Nicole Eramo sued the magazine in 2015 over her portrayal in the infamous Sabrina Erdely article “A Rape on Campus,” which recounted allegations by then-UVA student Jackie Coakley that she …
A lawyer, who represents an anonymous family, has filed a federal lawsuit against three Newtown police officers alleging that the police violated the family’s civil rights, and also certain state law, in connection with the arrest of the father of the family on several child sexual abuse charges in May 2013. Attorney Sally A. Roberts of Hartford said November 2 that the police named in the …
After just three months as president of Impact Ventures, the parent company of TNA Wrestling, Billy Corgan is out and engaged in a lawsuit over loans he paid the league that have not been paid back. On Thursday (Nov. 3), TNA issued a press release announcing new funding and as, Consequence of Sound reports, it also notes that “Billy Corgan is no longer with the company.” The Smashing Pumpkins …
The Libyan Investment Authority tried to resurrect its lawsuit against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. by adding new accusations of bribery, less than a month after a crushing courtroom defeat in London. But Judge Vivien Rose said at a hearing Friday that the appeal had no chance of success and ordered the sovereign wealth fund to pay Goldman at least 8.5 million pounds ($10.6 million) for legal …