Attorneys working for the Democratic National Committee are hoping a federal judge will throw out a lawsuit filed by a bunch of Bernie Sanders supporters who believe they got duped by the DNC. ‘The DNC was biased in favor of one candidate – Hillary Clinton – from the beginning and throughout the process,” the plaintiffs wrote in their original lawsuit. The complaint, which was filed in federal …
Concussions and the lingering and long term effects they can have on the brain has been one of the hottest topics surrounding sports, especially football. Many football players began learning the sport at a very young age, but now, more and more parents are holding their kids out of football until they get older. However, if the NFL has taught us …
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 …
The case could pit the power of the judiciary against the authority of the prime minister. In the hall of London’s Inner Temple, a grand dining chamber with stained-glass windows and coats of arms adorning the walls, 300 lawyers assembled to …
An environmentalist group has reached a tentative settlement with the USDA in a lawsuit accusing the agency’s predator control efforts of violating federal law. Attorneys for USDA and Wildearth Guardians, an environmental non-profit, have notified the judge overseeing the case that they’ve struck a deal “in principle, subject to approval by the appropriate government officials.” The notice …
Thursday, a unit of HSBC Holdings said it will pay $1.575 billion in order to end a 14-year old shareholder class action lawsuit. The lawsuit stems from questionable mortgage lending undertaking more than a decade ago from the Household International consumer finance business that HSBC bought in 2003, according to an article by Jonathan Stempel for Reuters. In the second quarter, the company …
On Wednesday, a judge tossed out a lawsuit that former fraternity members at the University of Virginia filed against Rolling Stone for defamation over an article that described a gang rape at their fraternity. The story was later discredited and Rolling Stone has since retracted it. U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel cited comments as “speculation and hypothesis rather than fact,” according …