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Op-Ed: How Gretchen Carlson’s $20 Million Settlement Is a Rip-Off

Now that Gretchen Carlson has settled her claims against former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes for a reported $20 million, many observers lament that her specific allegations of sexual harassment will never come to light, presumably barred by terms of a non-disclosure agreement. Yet she likely would have been barred from sharing her story regardless—thanks to fine print in many employment …


Glenn Beck Settles Lawsuit With Saudi Student He Accused of Financing Boston Marathon Bombings

Glenn Beck has settled a lawsuit filed by the Saudi Arabian student he wrongly accused of providing financial backing for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Beck, the conservative radio host and entrepreneur, had repeatedly identified Abdulrahman Alharbi, a 20-year-old Saudi scholarship student living in greater Boston, as the individual who funded the attacks that were carried out by Dzhokhar …


The Louisiana Connection to the Superstorm Sandy Litigation

In the wake of the historic August flood, there has been a renewed interest locally in the plight of flood victims of Superstorm Sandy, which ravaged the East Coast in 2012. Some four years later, thousands of homeowners there have yet to complete repairs to their property, and tens of millions of dollars have been spent on litigation that has brought to light evidence not only of mismanagement …



Google, Apple Back Microsoft in Gag Order Lawsuit

Many civil rights groups, trade bodies and companies, including Google, Amazon, Cisco Systems, Apple and Twitter, have filed briefs in a federal court to back Microsoft’s move to prevent the indiscriminate use by US law enforcement of orders that force companies not to inform their users about requests for their data. Under the Stored Communications Act, a part of the Electronic Communications …


The US Government Just Moved to Block a Deal Between 2 Farming Giants

The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against
Deere’s planned purchase of Monsanto’s Precision Planting
business. The lawsuit, filed in a Chicago court, said the deal would remove
competition and raise costs for farmers, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Deere, which is the world’s largest maker of agricultural
machinery, agreed to buy the unit from Monsanto in November.


P2P Firm Troubled by Lawsuits Due to the New Rule

Yirendai, the first Chinese peer-to-peer lender that went public in US, was getting into several class action lawsuits on share price decline in US stock market, as foreign investors concerned about the regulation taken out by the Chinese government would hit the firm. New York and New Jersey-based law firm Bronstein,Gewirtz & Grossman filed lawsuit on Yirendai of “materially false misleading …


Steel Mesh Legal Action Launched

Construction litigation specialist launches class action Last updated 13:27, August 31 2016 Four suppliers were affected by concerns about steel mesh strength this year. A specialist construction litigation law firm is hoping to deliver financial compensation to the owners of recently-built buildings, with a new class action suit. Adina Thorn is inviting registrations of interest for what it …


HPE, HP Sued for Elbowing Out Older Employees

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP are facing a potential class action lawsuit brought earlier this month by four former employees. The companies engaged in widespread age discrimination during a restructuring of the legacy computer and printer manufacturer, according to their complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. HP from 2012 to 2015 made a series of discriminatory …


Spyware Used to Reveal Affair Leads to Lawsuit With Wide-Reaching Implications

An Ohio man will be allowed to sue a web monitoring software maker for breaking US state and federal wiretap laws, the US Court of Appeals has ruled this week. In 2009, Javier Luis forged an online friendship with Catherine Zang, married at the time to her husband, Joseph Zang. Even if later it would be proven that the relationship was platonic, Mr. Zang became suspicious of his wife, which led …