Turning aside objections from gun owners, legal experts and nine state attorneys general, a federal judge has given final approval to a landmark class action settlement involving some 7.5 million allegedly defective Remington guns, CNBC reports this morning. The ruling allows the owners of some of Remington’s most popular firearms — including the iconic Model 700 rifle — to have …
After the recent announcement that Cascade County District Court Judge John Kutzman approved the $24 million settlement for 1,000 amphibole asbestos victims in the area, claimants from that settlement and past settlements have voiced how little comfort the money gives them. …
The principal of the public Harlem Renaissance High School is a self-help obsessive who pressured his staffers to pony up hundreds of dollars for the popular Landmark Forum self-improvement courses, a new lawsuit alleges. Principal Nadav Zeimer repeatedly pressed Spanish teacher Catherine Owens and other staffers to join Landmark, a program that can cost upwards of $600 for a weekend, according …
Attorneys for the plaintiffs steering committee (PSC) in the multidistrict class-action litigation over the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill have asked the presiding judge to approve $600 million in attorney and common plaintiff benefit fees, saying the reimbursement is warranted given the case’s staggering scope and complexity. When BP and the other companies involved in …