A female student contends in a court filing Monday that Kansas State University’s failure to investigate the rape of another woman allowed the same alleged assailant to sexually assault her. The accusations were levied in court documents seeking to add the woman, Crystal Stroup, to a lawsuit already filed against the university by Sara Weckhorst, citing what it calls the …
Failed presidential candidate Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has settled a lawsuit alleging his campaign improperly used two copyrighted songs in political advertisements. Cruz’s campaign and the Hollywood ad agency he had hired, Madison McQueen, agreed to pay a Seattle music-licensing firm $55,000 and issued an apology for “unintentionally infringing upon the intellectual property rights” of the two …
ChinaCast Education Corp. took shelter in New York bankruptcy court from investors holding a $65.8 million judgment over the alleged corporate looting that brought down the now-defunct e-learning company. Wednesday’s chapter 11 filing will allow ChinaCast to continue pursuing its former executives for alleged embezzlement and securities fraud while shielding it from a pending investor class- …
After an election, a president-elect has an enormous amount of work to do. The period between Election Day and Inauguration Day flies by, and an incoming leader has to assemble a team, receive policy briefings, put an agenda in place, and attend a seemingly endless stream of meetings. In Donald Trump’s case, there’s another part of his upcoming schedule that most presidents-elect don’t have to …
In the most recent of three class action lawsuits filed by different plaintiffs attorneys, a California man alleges LG Corp. and Samsung Group engaged in an agreement with each other to provide fixed compensation to their employees to avoid competition. The lawsuit, filed by Andrew Amirnovin in California federal court, also alleges the companies are …
A former disc jockey who was fired from a radio station in Denver after Taylor Swift alleged that he groped her is firing back in court, saying her story “defies credibility.” David Mueller was fired from KYGO after an alleged incident backstage at a Swift performance at the Pepsi Center in Denver in 2013. The superstar alleges that Mueller reached up her skirt and touched her inappropriately …
The owner of a marketing firm at the centre of an alleged bullying scandal has stood down from his job, as fundraising giant Appco launches an urgent investigation into the treatment of donation-collectors. Appco has ordered all of its 64 other marketing agencies to turn over any details of “suspected or known” bullying and harassment, and provide written assurances that they are not tolerating …
Liberty Mutual auto insurance carrier has settled a consumer protection lawsuit that alleged its television commercials advertising an accident-forgiveness program were misleading to Californians, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. The $925,000 settlement, approved Wednesday, will be divided among district attorney’s offices in San Diego, Riverside and Los Angeles …
Allstate Insurance Co. lost its bid to dismiss a putative class action challenging the insurance giant’s decision to terminate life insurance benefits it provides to retirees (Turner v. Allstate Ins. Co., M.D. Ala., No. …
U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan ruled on September 28 that a class-action lawsuit filed in March against Henry Schein, Patterson Companies, and Benco Dental can proceed. “Plaintiffs have sufficiently alleged that defendants orchestrated a single interconnected nationwide conspiracy not to compete on price with the common goal of driving up margins and preventing competitive upstarts from …