BOISE, Idaho — A class-action suit against Micron Technology claiming unpaid bonuses and fraud related to the company’s employee rating system will move forward. Micron spokeswoman Erica Pompen said in an email earlier this summer that the company does not comment or speculate on pending litigation. THE LAWSUITAccording to court documents filed in Idaho 4th District Court, Micron employees each …
The City of Portland moved the lawsuit seeking to block its new requirement that landlords pay moving costs of tenants evicted for “no-cause” to federal court late Thursday. An attorney representing two landlords had originally filed the suit in Multnomah County Circuit Court, claiming the new policy unanimously approved by the City Council last Thursday …
Despite filing a lawsuit against a British tabloid for running an inaccurate story on the grounds that it damaged her ability to “launch a broad-based commercial brand,” First Lady Melania Trump claims that she never intended to use her position for personal profit. According to a statement released by both a spokeswoman and her law firm, Trump had “no intention” of earning money off of being …
The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled Governor Branstad had the authority to close the state-run Mental Health Institutes in Clarinda and Mount Pleasant last year. Court: The citizens of Iowa granted the governor item-veto power The court threw out a complaint by two dozen Democrats in the state legislature and the president of the union that represented many of the workers at the two facilities. …
In the dojo of frivolous litigation, Donald Trump is to men’s rights activist Steve Frye what a sensei is to a janitor. Frye, a resident of Huntington Beach, California, likes to sue service industry companies that offer any sort of “ladies’ night”-type promos. In 2013, for instance, he filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against Cha Cha’s Latin Kitchen, from which he demanded $4,000 in compensation …
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Bessemer attorney against the five U.S. Supreme Court justices who made up the majority opinion legalizing gay marriage nationwide. U.S. District Court Judge Madeline Haikala tossed out the lawsuit based on judicial immunity. The U.S. 11 th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a previous case that federal judges have judicial immunity …
A judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by social service providers who wanted the court to force payment on contracts with the state of Illinois, saying the issue belongs in a higher court. After brief oral arguments, Cook County Judge Rodolfo Garcia tossed the lawsuit. Nearly 100 social service providers, called the Pay Now Illinois coalition, sued in May over fallout from the …
Despite the state’s request for an expedited ruling, a federal judge took no action Friday on a request to block the Obama administration’s guidelines to accommodate transgender students. U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor did not issue a ruling from the bench after an almost two-hour-long hearing during which state attorneys — as part of a Texas-led, 13-state effort to block …
A Douglas County judge is considering a motion from the University of Kansas to dismiss a lawsuit that claims the university misled the public by presenting campus housing as safe. The lawsuit stems from two women, both former KU rowers, who said they were raped in university housing — Jayhawker Towers — by the same man, also a student athlete. The man had played football for the university, …
Delaware has settled with a company suing it over its abandoned property laws. In a Friday filing with the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, the state and Temple-Inland jointly requested Judge Gregory Sleet dismiss a lawsuit that argued Delaware’s method of estimating abandoned …