Mooresville-based Lowe’s is facing a blockbuster race discrimination lawsuit from a high-ranking former executive. The home improvement company vigorously denied the charges on Friday. The lawsuit says former Chief Consumer Officer Michael Jones was targeted by executives after raising “concerns about the firm culture” and the …
The family of Tony Robinson, the 19-year-old fatally shot by police in Madison in 2015, has apparently settled a federal civil rights lawsuit. Family members and their attorneys plan to hold a news conference Thursday to discuss the $3.3 million settlement. Madison police officer Matt Kenny, who is white, shot the unarmed black teenager March 6, 2015 in an apartment house …
The Elizabethtown School District is being sued by a family whose 13-year-old son died after he was struck by a car while walking home from school in 2015. On March 9, 2015, David Weiser, 13, was on his way home from Elizabethtown Middle School. However, …
A former longtime Mead Johnson employee alleges the Glenview-based company fired her for raising safety concerns, including not telling consumers about potentially spoiled baby formula. Linda O’Risky, who spent more than 25 years at Mead Johnson, claims in a lawsuit filed today that the company attempted to “whitewash and downplay” the issue related to its popular ready-to-use infant formula. …
Austin-based Yeti Coolers said Thursday that it has settled a lawsuit against RTIC Coolers, a Texas-based competitor that Yeti has accused of copying its designs and intellectual property. The settlement calls for RTIC Coolers to make a financial payment to Yeti, to cease sales of all products subject to the lawsuit – which includes hard-sided coolers, soft-sided coolers and drinkware — and to …
A group of NFL cheerleaders — including women who have cheered for the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders — has filed a lawsuit demanding higher wages and fairer labor practices from the NFL and 27 member teams. “We’re not asking to be paid like the football players are. But if you look at the mascot, who’s paid between $25,000-$60,000 a year, it’s just not fair for what we put into it,” former Raiders cheerleader Caitlin Yates said in a statement released Tuesday. The suit filed Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco, seeks …
Volkswagen AG and former Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn must defend an investor lawsuit in California over the company’s diesel emissions cheating scandal, a U.S. judge has ruled. The plaintiffs, mostly U.S. municipal pension funds, have accused VW of not having informed the market in a timely fashion about the issue as well as understating possible financial liabilities, according …
We can all breathe a little easier. Or, more precisely, all you Canadian owners of Dieselgate-afflicted Volkswagen TDIs can breathe a sigh of relief. You’re not going to get screwed.
The class action lawsuit on behalf of passengers of Air Canada Flight 624 — which crash landed on a Halifax runway in March, 2015 — has been certified, according to Wagner’s Law Firm. Wagners, which is representing the passengers, said in a release Monday the lawsuit against Air Canada, Airbus S.A.S., Nav Canada, the Halifax International Airport Authority and Transport Canada. Transport Canada …
The House Select Committee on Benghazi has settled a lawsuit brought by a former staffer who alleged that he was fired in part because he was unwilling to focus solely on the State Department and Hillary Clinton in order to understand the attacks, attorneys for the staffer said. The settlement ends a messy dispute that raised questions about whether the committee — formed to investigate the 2012 attacks that killed four Americans at U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya — was trying to achieve partisan goals. The staffer, Bradley Podliska, alleged in court …