A federal judge has ordered sanctions against the state of Texas for blowing past deadlines and ignoring a court order to hand over thousands of pages of documents in a lawsuit challenging its voter registration practices. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office’s “months-long delay” in producing the documents “has been disruptive, time consuming, cost consuming” and has burdened plaintiffs …
The Genworth campus off West Broad Street near Glenside Drive. (Michael Schwartz) A local Fortune 500 company’s deal to be acquired and taken private by a Chinese conglomerate has caught the ire of at least one disgruntled investor. The members of the board of directors of Henrico-based insurance giant Genworth Financial were sued last week in Richmond federal court by shareholder Harold …
Yale University says it wasn’t trying to make an example of former basketball captain Jack Montague when it expelled him over a sexual assault allegation. The school on Friday filed its formal response to Montague’s federal lawsuit filed in June. The lawsuit accuses the Ivy League university of punishing Montague over what he believes was consensual sex.
The legal boundaries of augmented reality are about to be tested in court thanks to Pokemon Go. Polygon has dug up a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of New Jersey resident Jeffrey Marder, who alleges Niantic placed Pokestops and gyms on private property without the owners’ consent. He argues this has led to at least five strangers walking up to his door to ask if they can catch Pokemon in …
A long shot federal class-action lawsuit filed by long-time critics of the Dulles Toll Road argues the tolls are unconstitutional and the agency that runs the road does not have the proper authority to exist. The complaint filed in federal court in Washington earlier this month argues that the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which also runs Reagan National Airport and …
TORONTO – Ontario’s top court will hear arguments on Monday about whether two lawsuits arising out of the mass detentions during the tumultuous G20 summit in 2010 should go ahead as class actions. Police authorities in Toronto want the Court of Appeal to quash the proceedings, which have already been subject to two lower court rulings. The courts had originally ruled against certifying a class …