The wrongful-death lawsuit against Robert Durst accusing him of murdering his wife Kathie in the 1980s has been dismissed. Carol Bamonte waited too long to file the suit against her sister’s alleged killer, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Paul Goetz ruled Tuesday. Prosecutors in the Golden State believe Durst killed Berman to prevent her from going to authorities with information on Kathie’s …
The state Supreme Court has ruled that a class action against Carrabba’s Italian Grill can proceed, while sinking a similar class-action lawsuit accusing TGI Fridays of price gauging customers. Patrons of the restaurant chains alleged the establishments failed to post beverage prices and that they were charged one price for their first drink and a different price for their second …
A collection of civil rights attorneys and a New York City law firm filed a class action lawsuit in February, hoping to change the racist and unconstitutional legal system in Louisiana. The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and Section 13 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974 guarantee the right to meaningful and effective assistance of counsel to every person …
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Healthport Technologies LLC, IOD Inc. and CIOX Health LLC, citing alleged breach of contract, fraud and unjust enrichment from overcharging patients for health records. Leon Kuchenmeister, Cindy A. Hugger-Gravitt, and Beth A. Bretoi filed a complaint on behalf of all those similarly situated on March 20, in the U.S. …
Based on recent federal court filings in the Central District of California, it appears that plaintiff lawyers have found a new way to threaten retailers with class action litigation. In January of this year, two class action complaints were filed on behalf of consumers who allegedly were charged shipping and handling fees “not reasonably related to Defendant’s actual costs of shipping or …
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against LuLaRoe by a Pennsylvania woman, who alleges that the company has illegally charged thousands of people sales tax on the clothing they have purchased. She herself claims to have bought a dozen pieces of LuLaRoe clothing, and since there is no sales tax on clothing in Pennsylvania, she says that she has been charged illegal taxes. According to Saving …
Lawyers representing Attorney General Alan Wilson and more than a dozen law enforcement officials across the state want a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of South Carolina’s disturbing schools statute, saying the plaintiffs lack legal standing to sue. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Charleston in August, received its first hearing with federal …
A Leonia man has started a class-action lawsuit against the Costco Wholesale Corporation, claiming the business illegally charged him sales tax on toilet paper. Robert Arnold, 55, claims he and his wife purchased Charmin toilet tissue from the wholesaler twice in July 2015 – once at the Wayne store and another time at the …
A federal judge says he’ll dismiss several allegations in a defamation lawsuit against Baltimore’s top prosecutor and a member of the sheriff’s office brought by officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who was injured in a police van. Media outlets report that U.S. District Judge Marvin Garbis indicated Thursday at a hearing that he would drop some of the …
It’s not every day that a priest gives a ringing endorsement of a Chicago Police officer once charged with forcing a gun down the throat of a suspect. But on Thursday, Glenn Evans got a vote of confidence from the Rev. Matthew O’Donnell, pastor of St. Columbanus Catholic Church, one of half a dozen community activists from some of the city’s most crime-plagued neighborhoods who showed up at the …