I told you this was a trend. Last week, the $100 million lawsuit against Biglaw firm Chadbourne & Parke was the big news. Now comes word that another gender discrimination lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District of New York, this time against Goldberg Segalla and a partner there, Frederick Pomerantz.
Almost two months ago, Gretchen Carlson (seen above looking like she’s posing for her ConservativeMingle.com profile picture) dropped a sexual harassment lawsuit into the laps of former Fox News chairman (and current Trump employee) Roger Ailes and her former employers at Fox News. Gretchen accused Roger of a mountain of inappropriate stuff, like …
That was a quickie of a lawsuit! Eliot Spitzer has pulled out of a fraud and extortion case against an alleged Russian hooker who accused him of choking her at the Plaza Hotel — less than two months after filing the suit. “Eliot Spitzer, by and through his attorneys, hereby discontinues the above-entitled action without prejudice and without costs to either party as against the other,” the …
Begich Middle School teacher’s aide Julianti Clarke, 62, was charged with abuse in October 2014, after surveillance video showed her fondling a disabled male student in the lunchroom. In November 2015, prosecutors agreed to a plea deal that would let Clarke serve 48 hours of community service and dropped the charges. In a lawsuit filed this week in Anchorage Superior Court, the student’s …
A New Haven women who fell over a chair during a crowded funeral service has won a $1 million lawsuit against the East End church. A six-member Superior Court jury deliberated about two hours before finding the English Chapel Cathedral of Miracles negligently caused the injuries suffered by Glenora King and ordered the Wilmot Avenue church to pay her $51,000 in economic damages and …
Arrested for dubious reasons and taken to a Kentucky juvenile detention center more than an hour from her home, McMillen, 16, was left to die on January 10 as several staff members at Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center failed to perform basic duties to ensure the unresponsive teenager was safe, a federal lawsuit filed by her family on August 31 against the Kentucky Department of …
The victims of the Silver Spring apartment explosion have partnered with two law firms and say they will file a lawsuit in the coming weeks. CASA, an advocacy group that has helped the victims since the Aug. 10 blast, announced the partnership during a news conference Wednesday morning. “I think it’s very important that these families are compensated for what happened,” said CASA Executive …
The Texas Ethics Commission is backing off a long-running battle to force conservative powerbroker Michael Quinn Sullivan to comply with subpoenas as part of an investigation into his nonprofit’s political activity. Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office, which is representing the commission, told a state district …
Mylan Specialty is giving schools around the country its EpiPen device to fight the severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. (Photo: Provided) A Cincinnati attorney has filed a class-action lawsuit against the maker of the EpiPen, calling the device’s 500-percent price increase in the last several years “immoral” and “nothing more than price-gouging.” The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Hamilton …
Magistrate Judge Steven Locke of the Eastern District New York, recently denied conditional certification under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in the Cowell v. Utopia Home Carecase. For some home health patients, a plan of care includes general household tasks. | Janice Smits / Shutterstock This decision prevents the Utopia Home Care employees from filing …