The city just unleashed its biggest ever crackdown on a landlord illegally using Airbnb. Lower East Side building owner Rose King has been slammed with a $1.2 million lawsuit by city lawyers alleging she illegally rented a slew of units in three buildings through the short-term rental service. King has been hiding behind a middle man and at least nine aliases to create a network of transient …
Organizers of the failed Fyre Festival have been hit with another lawsuit — this time from an investor who claims the fiasco was a massive fraud from the start. Oleg Itkin of Manhattan says he handed over $700,000 from January to April after organizer William McFarland showed him a “projected income statement” showing $932 million in expected revenue by November 2017, according to court papers. …
US-based oil company Cobalt filed for arbitration for a $2-billion suit against Angola’s state-run Sonangol oil giant last week, according to court documents found by Reuters. The two parties were due to reach an agreement on license extensions for two deepwater blocks, but negotiations broke down last year. Now Cobalt claims a $2 billion award, plus interest and other costs, as compensation …
An ex-employee of billion-dollar investment firm Renaissance Technologies is suing chief co-executive Robert Mercer, who reportedly fired the man after he spoke out against Mercer’s political, and allegedly racist, views. The lawsuit, filed by former employee David Magerman on Friday, May 5, accuses Mercer of making a series of racist comments about African-Americans. Magerman claims he asked …
Two more students who were punished for their roles in a racist Instagram incident at Albany High are suing school district officials and their principal, alleging violations of their right to free speech, as well as being forced to endure public shaming, violence and emotional abuse. Related Articles Students also allege that school district officials and administrators “created a …
A 61-year-old man was thrown “headfirst into a cinder block wall” at the Hamilton County jail by a corrections officer last year, leaving …
A Lower Saucon Township couple say their sons have endured racial slurs and race-related attacks in Saucon Valley schools and administrators have failed to protect them. Kerry and Sheila MacLean sued the school district in federal court over race-related events they said they have logged since they moved into the school district in 2013. According to the lawsuit, their high school- and middle …
Consumers are still waiting for refunds for a class action lawsuit they thought would be resolved by now. It involves allegations of price fixing of dairy products and a $52 million settlement that was to be paid to consumers who bought just about any fresh dairy product in Arizona and 15 other states. The deadline to file was January 31, 2017 and many are asking ‘where is the money?’
Betty Tucker had invited a few guests over for a cookout in the garden of her Canton, Miss., home when two plainclothes sheriff’s deputies walked into her home. Even though they didn’t have a warrant, they came in, checked her pockets and the pockets of her guests, searched her patio on their hands and knees, and then left. It wasn’t much different for Quinetta Manning.
If you were lucky enough to indulge in a Unicorn Frappuccino from Starbucks back in April, congratulations. You consumed the world’s most well-known (and sweetest) unicorn drink on the market. But it’s apparently not the only one according to a new lawsuit by The End Brooklyn, a coffee bar in New York that has sold its own “unicorn” latte since December.