COLUMBUS, Ohio — A civil rights group says JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by male employees who say they were denied additional paid parental leave between 2011 and 2017. The settlement was announced Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union and the national law firm Outten & Golden. Chase employee Derek Rotondo filed an equal opportunity …
The sister of a South Carolina man who was killed by police after a high-speed car chase claims in a lawsuit that three officers shot her unarmed brother 17 times in the back — as he lay on the ground. Waltki Cermoun Williams “did not have a weapon” and was struck in total by 19 of the two dozen shots fired at him during the deadly confrontation on Dec. 10, according to a lawsuit filed in …
The parents of a teen who died while in custody of several Harris County deputies are filing a lawsuit against them, alleging they used unreasonable deadly force at the end of a chase involving their son. According to a lawsuit filed in February 2017, several Harris County Sheriff’s deputies used a Taser to subdue 18 …
NEW ORLEANS — A Florida businessman’s litigation blocking World Trade Center development appears to be headed to the Louisiana Supreme Court, but the winning bidder’s spokesman has claimed validation in a recent appeals-court decision. “Today’s unanimous and strongly worded 4th Circuit ruling validates our contention that the plaintiff has no legitimate legal case and that this transformational …
While jury duty is a civic responsibility, it can sometimes be an expensive inconvenience: A new lawsuit says jurors in D.C.’s Superior Court face exorbitant fees charged by a bank that deprives them of the maximum payment of $34 per day. Attorneys for William Mark Scott, a lawyer himself, have filed a class action suit against JPMorgan Chase & Co. in D.C. federal court for unjust …
JPMorgan Chase paid female employees less than their male counterparts, according to a Labor Department lawsuit filed Wednesday that seeks to halt new federal contracts with the massive bank until it compensates the women. Since at least May 2012, JPMorgan paid at least 93 women employed as lead application developers, project managers and technology directors in …
JPMorgan Chase agreed to a settlement with the U.S. government over allegations that it discriminated against “thousands” of black, Hispanic mortgage borrowers from 2006 through 2009. The bank’s independent brokers charged minority borrowers higher mortgage interest rates and fees during that period, compared to “similarly situated white borrowers,” according to a government lawsuit filed Wednesday in a New York federal court. JPMorgan is expected to settle the lawsuit for $55 million without admitting any liability. “We’ve agreed to …
The increasingly bizarre litigation over the World Trade Center building appeared to quickly unravel Monday (Nov. 7) when neither the man behind the lawsuit nor any lawyers representing his company showed up in court to pursue the case. Two Canal Street Investors’ case against the city of New Orleans challenges the lease of the 33-story building to a Four Seasons hotel development team with …
Madison officials are trying to get a lawsuit filed in Hinds County involving a Madison police pursuit of burglary suspects inside Jackson thrown out or transferred. Robert Pugh of Jackson, who was injured when …
The largest bank in the United States settled a class-action lawsuit this week that stemmed from outcry over excessive fees the institution charged former prison inmates over the last four years. JPMorgan Chase won a government contract in 2008 to furnish inmates freed from all U.S. federal prisons with debit cards connected to money they were sent or earned while …