The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against
Deere’s planned purchase of Monsanto’s Precision Planting
business. The lawsuit, filed in a Chicago court, said the deal would remove
competition and raise costs for farmers, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Deere, which is the world’s largest maker of agricultural
machinery, agreed to buy the unit from Monsanto in November.
Melania Trump is bringing a $150 million libel lawsuit against Daily Mail after the website published an article seemingly linking her to dubious allegations of running and working for an escort service both in New York City and her native Slovenia. Although the article merely pointed to the allegations others had already made, Ms. Trump still believed it went too far. And Melania Trump is now …
Law.com reports that a Chadbourne & Parke litigation partner, Kerrie Campbell, has filed a $100 million class action lawsuit against the firm on behalf of current and former female partners, alleging gender discrimination: The suit alleges that female partners have been excluded from positions with decision-making authority, and help;
Rosanne DiPizio filed a federal lawsuit in July 2015, accusing state development officials of racketeering. She claimed that state officials illegally terminated her construction company’s $19.8 million contract to build the ice rink at Canalside and then arranged to have the contract turned over to a politically-connected Rochester company. So far, federal judges have handled the case like a …
A month after five state of New Mexico employees testified in federal court that they were instructed to falsify emergency food aid applications, another lawsuit filed in Las Cruces district court made strikingly similar allegations. But instead of directing her allegations toward state government, Lorraine McCullough directed her allegations toward SL Start and Associates, a private, …
It started with Kahlua and coffee, the woman said. Then, she said, Bill Cosby asked her a question: “Do you like back rubs or belly rubs?” The setting was Cosby’s hotel room one night in the mid- …
Days after being named in a lawsuit, both Townsquare Media and KLAQ-95.5 FM radio host Buzz Adams responded to the lawsuit, saying that the anti-maternity leave allegations made against …
Attorneys for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power filed court papers Thursday alleging the contractor that handled the troubled rollout of the utility’s billing system three years ago intentionally over-billed the city and spent the money, in part, on prostitutes and two lavish bachelor parties in Las Vegas. An attorney for Pricewaterhouse Coopers, however, flatly denied the …
On June 20, news broke of a civil lawsuit filed against Donald Trump, who is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl some 20 years ago at the Upper East Side apartment of Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has largely been able to ignore the story, which has not been seriously investigated by major news outlets. But that may soon change.
Lawyers for Donald Trump are on defensive, and they fight claims that Trump University real estate seminar program amounted to a racketeering operation under federal law. Donald Trumps lawyers are going against racketeering operation …