Chief U.S. District Court Judge P.K. Holmes III on Wednesday reprimanded five attorneys, including the husband of a state Supreme Court justice, after finding bad faith and abuse of the court system in their manipulation of a controversial class-action case.
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 …
A federal judge declined a defense request to sanction attorneys for former Baylor University student Jasmin Hernandez Thursday for their comments to the media, but he reminded lawyers on both sides of the case about their responsibilities under the rules of professional conduct. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman conducted a status conference with attorneys involved in the lawsuit, including …
Anyone who has purchased an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 may be entitled to a $30 payout for every car they purchased now that the NVIDIA class-action lawsuit over the GTX 970 memory has now been settled. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang apologised to buyers about the issue and promised that it would never happen again. Read below to see if you are entitled to a payout from the settlement.
A judge today allowed a lawsuit over pay raises for county officials to move forward, despite efforts by attorneys to quash it. At a preliminary hearing, Judge Spencer Ludington denied motions by defense attorneys to dismiss the lawsuit as “non-justiciable.” The hearing was the first in a six-month-old lawsuit from County Comptroller Bob Antonacci.
Nvidia has been fighting off a variety of class action suits related to the way the GTX 970 was advertised when it was released in 2014. It appears those cases are coming to a close after the graphics card maker agreed to a preliminary settlement in the consolidated cases. Under the agreed terms, Nvidia will pay all members of the class who purchased GTX 970 cards $30, and will also cover about …
A group of attorneys have asked a federal judge not to punish them next week for seeking a more favorable forum in a class-action lawsuit, arguing punishment would be unnecessary and overly harsh. Thirteen attorneys in the 2014 case Adams v. United Services Automobile Association are to go before Chief U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes III the morning of June 24 for a hearing on …
Attorneys for the family of a woman who died in one of Michael Morton’s nursing homes filed arguments and hundreds of pages of sworn testimony Wednesday in an attempt to keep a corruption lawsuit against Morton and lobbyist Gilbert Baker alive. Among those giving depositions under oath to attorneys gathering information for the lawsuit were Morton; Baker; lobbyists Bruce Hawkins and …
A click-bait website with more than 2 million likes on Facebook used Billy Graham’s name and likeness to get clicks, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association filed suit against the operator of the website GodToday.com. The owner is “clandestine” and identified in court documents as “John …
The Wyoming Attorney General today announced a settlement resolving claims that Volkswagen violated state laws prohibiting unfair or deceptive trade practices by marketing, selling and leasing diesel vehicles equipped with illegal and undisclosed defeat device software. This agreement is part of a series of coordinated state and federal settlements …