President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, walked back a legal fight to clean up rivers polluted by chicken manure after accepting tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions linked to the poultry industry, campaign and court records show. A report by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group …
The family of Reshall Jimmy, who died when his Ford Kuga burst into flames, will be pursuing a class action lawsuit against the vehicle manufacturer. The family’s lawyer, Rod Montano, announced the expected lawsuit during a briefing at the National Press Club on Tuesday. Ford announced on Monday that it was recalling the vehicles.
The lawsuit concerning USF professor Herb Maschner was settled for $170,000 between Idaho State and Kelly Pokorny. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE Idaho State University, and former school employee Kelly Pokorny settled a sexual harassment lawsuit Friday involving current USF professor and former executive director for the Center for Virtualization and Applied Spatial Technologies Herb Maschner, …
If you bought milk — or any dairy products in Wisconsin over the last 14 years you could be owed a refund. Wisconsin is one of 15 states involved in a class action lawsuit against milk producers. The $52 million settlement accuses dairy farmers of price-fixing.
The sibilings of Reshall Jimmy, who died when his Ford Kuga burst into flames, are planning a class action lawsuit against the motor company. Kaveen and Renisha Jimmy, speaking at the National Press Club in Pretoria on Tuesday, said Ford’s decision, taken only this week, to intitiate a safety recall isn’t good enough. Reshall died more than a year ago but Kaveen said he has been forced to …
HOUSTON (KTRK) — The last words Phillip Garcia spoke to his mother were two years ago. He said, “I love you and thanks for everything. That was his good-bye to me,” said Sonia Garcia.
WorleyParsons CEO Andrew Wood slashed earnings guidance unexpectedly in 2013. Christopher Pearce WorleyParsons’ attempt to stop a $50 million class action lawsuit alleging the engineering group breached continuous disclosure obligations in 2013 has failed, with the Federal Court ordering the case to continue. Justice Foster dismissed WorleyParsons’ interlocutory application on January to halt …
A hammer-wielding group involved in the bitcoin ATM business is allegedly smashing its way around Detroit and Chicago in an effort to destroy the competition, according to court documents filed last month and obtained by industry blog CoinDesk . Andrew Konja, Alvin Konja, Sam Konja, and Odai Mabroukâalong with a number of other co-conspiratorsâare allegedly running a scheme to put competing …
Northern Trust Corp. will pay more than $4.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a group that includes two Pontiac, Mich., pension systems over investment losses that occurred during the financial crisis. The Chicago-based financial services firm violated its fiduciary and contractual duties when it “invested its clients’ assets in risky, long-term investments … that plummeted in value,” the …
SAN JOSE — Defeated City Council candidate Jimmy Nguyen is questioning 116 contested ballots that he says could have swayed the narrow District 8 election in his favor, according to a lawsuit filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court. Nguyen in November lost by 68 votes to Councilwoman Sylvia Arenas , who was sworn in Tuesday. Among other claims, Nguyen’s lawsuit says a ballot recount he paid …