A new lawsuit claims the screenwriter behind two X-Men films and Watchmen and a colleague conceived the concept for the prison preparation buddy comedy Get Hard, but didn’t get credit or payment. Writer/casting director Tamer Howard is suing prominent talent managers Jimmy Miller and Julie Darmody for breach of confidence, according to a complaint filed Friday in L.A. County Superior Court. …
How well does your fitness tracker work? Millions of us count on them to track our every move. The newer ones are supposed to measure heart rate, but a new class-action lawsuit claims the tracking technology does not do as well as Fitbit’s maker says.
In an increasingly dirty legal battle between dueling soda shops, Swig now names the owners and officers of its rival company, Sodalicious, as individual defendants in a federal lawsuit. The trademark lawsuit filed more than a year ago by St. George-based Swig Holdings LLC claims Provo’s Sodalicious Inc. has profited by being “a near exact knockoff” of the popular drink …
A former Scranton housing inspector has appealed a federal judge’s ruling that dismissed her political retaliation and gender discrimination lawsuit. Patricia Jennings-Fowler contends U.S. District Judge Malachy Mannion erred when he ruled she failed to present sufficient evidence to support her claims. Ms. Jennings-Fowler had worked for the city in various capacities since 2009.
Airlines have frequent flyer programs, restaurants and coffee shops have customer loyalty programs, and plaintiff’s class action firms have repeat class action plaintiffs. These frequent class plaintiffs are either unlucky or they go looking for trouble. See Beyond Systems, Inc. v. Kraft Foods, Inc., 777 F.3d 712, 714 (2015) (noting that email spam litigation accounted for 90% of plaintiff’s …
As the Justice Department probes Comcast’s practices in the spot advertising market, the media giant is now facing an antitrust lawsuit that alleges monopolization of ad markets and the exclusionary treatment of one independent cable representation firm. On Monday, Viamedia filed suit in Illinois with claims that Comcast has gained control of “interconnects” — local cooperatives serving pay-TV …
Two West Hartford physicians have filed a class-action lawsuit accusing one of the country’s largest medical-waste disposal service providers of illegally jacking up service fees. But they aren’t alone. The April 28 complaint against Illinois-based Stericycle — filed by Drs.
This January, we reported on a proposed class action sweepstakes lawsuit filed on behalf of all runners who entered the New York City Marathon’s (“Marathon”) general entry drawing (“Drawing”) between 2010 and 2015. Last month, two of the named plaintiffs voluntarily withdrew their claims against the Marathon’s organizer and operator – New York Road Runners, Inc. (“Road Runners”) – after Road …
The sons of a woman shot to death in 2014 have filed what appears to be the country’s first wrongful death lawsuit against the recreational marijuana industry. The lawsuit claims that the company that made the marijuana edible and the store that sold the candy to Richard Kirk recklessly and purposefully failed to warn him about the bite-sized …
An attorney and social media blogger says the music streaming service Tidal would welcome a quick resolution of a class action lawsuit filed by a disgruntled Kanye West fan. Californian Justin Baker-Rhett earlier this month filed the proposed class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, accusing West of duping fans into buying Tidal …