On behalf of a group of more than 40 consumers, a San Francisco law firm is trying to stop a $4 billion merger between Alaska Airlines and Virgin America. The plaintiffs argue the deal would weaken competition in the industry, causing job loss and higher fare prices. Alaska Airlines announced on Aug. 4 that it would acquire Virgin America to create the West Coast’s “premier …
A $100-million class-action lawsuit has been leveled against Rabbi Bernard “Barry” Freundel, the Georgetown rabbi arrested in 2014 for six acts of voyeurism. Freundel filmed women disrobing before immersing themselves in the National Capital Mikvah, constructed at his direction in 2005. A mikvah is a ritual bath that married Orthodox women use after their monthly menstruation.
A shareholder class action lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Corrections Corporation of America, a private prison company that was the subject of a recent Mother Jones investigation. Last week, the Department of Justice announced it would work to end its private prison contracts. The shareholders allege that CCA and its executive officers made false or misleading statements that put the …
A group of women who were unknowingly videotaped by a D.C. rabbi as they took part in a religious ritual bath are suing him and affiliated organizations, and on Tuesday announced that they are seeking $100 million. The lawsuit was also amended Tuesday to include the Beth Din of America, an Orthodox court that oversaw Rabbi Barry Freundel. Related Stories The changes to the lawsuit …
Three journalists who reported on the 2014 Ferguson riots for Al-Jazeera America filed suit Monday against St. Charles County and three police officers, claiming personal injuries and violations of their constitutional rights. The suit by Ash-har Quraishi, Marla Cichowski and Sam Winslade in U.S. District Court in St. Louis names St. Charles County, Deputy Michael Anderson of the …
On Wednesday, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey expanded the state’s lawsuit against Volkswagen Group of America to include allegations against its parent company, in addition to Audi, Porsche and the German engineering corporation Robert Bosch. The amended complaint, filed in Kanawha Circuit Court, charges Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche used Robert Bosch …
The lawsuit was filed Friday by the nonprofit Tennessee Riverkeeper, and it claims that a Decatur, Tennessee chemical plant owned by 3M is responsible for most of the river’s pollution woes. Tennessee Riverkeeper filed the suit under the United States Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, accusing 3M of contaminating the river with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate …
Boston Retirement System, the public pension fund for Boston municipal employees, filed the first bondholders proposed class action against Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) related to the company’s diesel emissions scandal, law firm Labaton Sucharow LLP said. The lawsuit, which also names as defendants Volkswagen Group of America Inc and Volkswagen Group of America Finance Inc, claims that “false and …
“I mean, they got there first. But now you want to take it from them? Sort of ironic.”
The only people that wish to “take” anything in this case is people that wish to apply the term native American only to themselves, or other people, while excluding other native Americans. They are shamefully and disgracefully taking the word native for themselves.
As to what’s “ironic,” that would be a group of people misappropriating …
Cash America (CSH) Alert: Johnson & Weaver, LLP Launches an Investigation into the Fairness of Price and Process in Proposed Sale of Cash America International, Inc.; Are Shareholders Getting a Fair Deal? Apr 28, 2016, 12:32 ET from Johnson & Weaver, LLP SAN DIEGO, April 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Shareholder rights law firm Johnson & Weaver, LLP has launched an investigation into whether the …