The Battle of the Bibs continues. Mike Hicks and 167 other professional caddies have appealed U.S. District Judge Vince Girdhari Chhabria’s decision to dismiss their $50 million class-action lawsuit against the PGA Tour. The caddies raised contract, antitrust and intellectual property claims against the Tour when they filed suit in February 2015, alleging that the Tour had reduced them to …
Schuette(Photo: Jake May | MLive.com) Lansing — Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is aiming to collect “hundreds of millions” of dollars from two engineering firms he claims contributed to the Flint water contamination crisis and hopes to do so in a few years — not a decade or more. But legal experts say the state has to clear several legal hurdles before it could command a lucrative …
The guardian of a 14-year-old Los Angeles boy is filing a class action lawsuit against Snapchat, alleging the social media company is violating online decency laws. The lawsuit alleges that the company is intentionally exposing minors to offensive and sexually offensive content without warning, in violation of the Communications Decency Act. ADVERTISEMENT The lawsuit specifically called out …
Handing a victory to Facebook, a federal judge has ruled that the company won’t have to face a class-action lawsuit for allegedly violating its privacy policy by “leaking” people’s personal information to advertisers. U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte said this week that class-action treatment isn’t appropriate because “individualized questions will predominate” in the dispute. Most of …
Lawsuit Accuses Hormel Of Using Meaningless ‘Natural’ Label On Deli Meat June 30, 2016 By Laura Northrup When you see a label that says “natural” on your meat, you might make some assumptions about what’s in it. Doesn’t that label mean meat that doesn’t have preservatives or artificial colors, that comes from animals raised without growth-promoting hormones or antibiotics? Well, no, it doesn’t …
A state court jury has decided that the University of New Mexico Hospital is liable for not testing surgical patient James Woodard of Roswell for MRSA before his 9½-hour back …
The family of a 20-year-old man shot and killed by Denver police is suing the department. The lawsuit claims there was a cover-up in the case of Ryan Ronquillo. It also claims police used “grossly excessive deadly force.”
Tony Romo’s National Fantasy Football Convention received more bad news this week. The original lawsuit the NFFC filed against the NFL was entirely dismissed by Dallas judge Carl Ginsberg on Tuesday. “We are very pleased by the court’s ruling dismissing all of the NFFC’s claims in this case,” said Thad Behrens, lead counsel for the NFL.
Seven insurance companies that paid claims to cover property and vehicle losses in the 2014 Rising Eagle Road Fire have sued a Mazama couple whom they allege caused the fire through their …
Over 22 million people could take part in the lawsuit. Netflix has been increasing the price of it’s subscription service for a while now, and while we all sit back and complain about the price hikes, one customer has taken it to a whole other level. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that a customer is suing Netflix for the recent price hike, and claims 22 million others have been affected as …