The Iowa Supreme Court has certified a class-action lawsuit of Muscatine residents who say pollution from an industrial plant blanketed their properties for decades. The court on Friday unanimously upheld a judge’s certification that the class will consist of residents who lived within 1.5 miles of the Grain Processing Corp. plant between 2007 and 2012. That includes roughly …
When a domestic violence survivor calls 911 against a dangerous ex, they don’t usually assume they’ll get kicked out of town. And yet that’s what the ACLU says happened to Rosetta Watson, who used to live in the small town of Maplewood, Missouri. She called authorities four times on an abusive former boyfriend from September 2011 to February 2012, according to the federal lawsuit filed Friday.
A class-action lawsuit was filed this week on behalf of thousands of Toyota owners who say rodents are eating car wires coated with soy-based materials, causing thousands of dollars in damage. “Toyota incorporates soy- or bio-based ingredients in the wiring … that bait rodents – including rats, squirrels and other animals,” the lawsuit says. Honda is facing a similar suit.
Baltimore’s spending panel is set to approve a $300,000 settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Anthony Anderson, who died after he was tackled by a police officer in 2012. Officers stopped Anderson, 46, on Sept. 21, 2012, in a vacant lot when the officers said he failed to respond to commands, prompting one officer to use a “bear hug” maneuver, according to according to …
JPMorgan Chase paid female employees less than their male counterparts, according to a Labor Department lawsuit filed Wednesday that seeks to halt new federal contracts with the massive bank until it compensates the women. Since at least May 2012, JPMorgan paid at least 93 women employed as lead application developers, project managers and technology directors in …
The lawsuit claims that AMD bosses, including Rory Read and Lisa Su, made “false and misleading statements to investors about the manufacturing and subsequent launch of, as well as the demand for, its Llano microprocessor” back in 2011 and 2012. Their case claims that AMD and its management violated the Securities Exchange Act. The court has ruled that anyone who bought AMD stock between April …
In 2012, Hyundai and Kia were found to have been overstating fuel economy on over a million model year 2011-2013 vehicles by between one and four MPG combined. After many lawsuits and hundreds of millions in fines , the Korean automakers are finally putting this issue to rest. Again, expensively.
Three US former drone operators on Thursday joined a lawsuit against US President Barack Obama over the deaths of innocent Yemenis in US drone strikes. The brief, filed by Brandon Bryant, Lisa Ling and Cian Westmoreland, said the veterans had “witnessed a secret, global system without regard for borders, conducting widespread surveillance with the ability to conduct deadly targeted killing …
Friday, Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson was finally able to break his silence. The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against he and his department in 2012, accusing deputies of racially profiling and discriminating against latinos. Last year, a federal judge ruled in his favor, but the DOJ appealed the decision.
Unless you are a named defendant in the settled litigation or one of their affiliates, as that term is defined in the Stipulation and Agreement of Compromise and Settlement dated July 14, 2016 (the “Stipulation”), or you exclude yourself from the Settlement, you are a member of the Class if you held AuthenTec common stock any time between and including July 27, 2012 and October 4, 2012. What …