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, …
The proposed $49 billion acquisition by British American Tobacco PLC (NYSEMKT: BTI) of the 58% of Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) that it does not already own will, if approved, create the world’s largest publicly traded tobacco company by both revenue and market cap. It will also create the biggest target for more lawsuits related to the harmful effects of tobacco use. Last May, the family …
Sexual predators have to stick together, amirite? Being a woman and working at Fox News must’ve been (and may still be) an absolute nightmare. On the heels of a $20 million settlement with Gretch Carlson over sexual harassment claims against former Fox chief Roger Ailes, it turns out the network secretly settled another sexual harassment lawsuit: In the weeks after Roger Ailes was ousted as the …
Lawyers from three states put their names on a class-action lawsuit filed in Alamance County over the number of digits of credit-card numbers a retailer puts on receipts. Chapel Hill resident Timothy Miles accuses The Company Store of printing as many as 10 digits — the first six and last four — …
A Texas couple is suing Apple , claiming that its FaceTime app distracted a driver who rammed into the couple’s car, killing their 5-year-old daughter. Parents James and Bethany Modisette are suing Apple for damages on the basis that the electronics giant failed to install and implement a “safer, alternative design” for FaceTime that would have helped prevent a driver from using the app while …
You’ve seen it on store shelves: St. Ives Apricot Scrub, which promises smooth, soft skin. But two U.S. women launched a lawsuit, alleging the exfoliator’s crushed walnut shells damage the skin and even speed up the aging process. The $5 million lawsuit against Unilever, the makers of the scrub, may have potential to expand into a class action case, U.S reports suggest.
Several former Clark Atlanta University professors have sued the school after they claim they were wrongfully terminated during a massive layoff. They have won a portion of the case already but are now asking another jury to help them in recovering their losses. “It’s been a hard journey,” stated former professor Lonzy Lewis.
State NAACP President William Barber has filed a discrimination lawsuit against American Airlines. He claims he was removed from a flight in April because he is black. Rev.
The decision opens door for “tens of thousands” of federal inmates to get paid for alleged mistreatment Rioux added that segregation — the term the government uses for solitary confinement — is a legally available tool that is used to “manage risk,” either to the inmate or staff, and is not a punitive measure. She said there are ongoing reviews of an inmate’s placement in solitary confinement, …
The cheater dating website Ashley Madison, which got hacked and exposed the secret lives of millions of Americans, has agreed to a $1.7 million settlement with several U.S. states and the federal government. The settlement, announced Wednesday by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, is a scathing admission of fraudulent business practices. Government investigators in New York …