Listen to the entire show – River to River This week, animal rights and free speech organizations filed a lawsuit against the State of Iowa that challenges a state law from 2012, often referred to as Iowa’s ag-gag law or ag-whistleblower law. The law made it illegal to get a job at a livestock farm through misrepresentation in order to conduct an undercover animal cruelty investigation. The …
The state of Washington is accusing a Quincy agricultural company and one of its managers of sexually harassing female workers and retaliating against workers who complained. State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Spokane, Washington. Ferguson alleges that Horning Brothers LLC, allowed one of its foremen to sexually harass and …
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the USDC for the District of Utah on behalf of investors who purchased USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (USNA) securities between March 14, 2014 and February 7, 2017. Click here to learn about the case: http://www.wongesq.com/pslra/usana-health-sciences-inc. There is …
Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (“USANA” or the “Company”) (NYSE:USNA) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in United States District Court, District of Utah, is on behalf of a class consisting of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired USANA securities, …
Ethics watchdogs who have long warned of the potential conflicts posed by the Trump family’s business interests were quick to cry foul on Wednesday. Importantly, they also saw it as a potential new opening to take Trump to court. Currently, the most high-profile legal challenge to Donald Trump’s business empire concerns what is known as the Emoluments Clause in the U.S. Constitution, which bars …
Kentucky has joined a multistate lawsuit alleging that a large group of pharmaceutical companies have monopolized generic drugs. Attorney General Andy Beshear called the move “straightforward and sinister.” The lawsuit alleges widespread collusion among the pharmaceutical companies to reduce competition and increase the price of generic drugs. The states allege the …
A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto created a sexually hostile work environment by hugging and kissing a female employee while on the job. The reversal sends the case back for trial in U.S. District Court in Sacramento. Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto.
A Northwest Arkansas McDonald’s owned by Mathews Management Company and Peach Orchard is set to pay $103,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The lawsuit claimed a man was fired from a McDonald’s in Bentonville after management learned of his HIV-positive status. The suit also charged that the companies’ …
Plaintiffs suing Anthem Inc. in the wake of a cyberattack that exposed information on nearly 80 million individuals in 2015 want a court to open the door to revealing more of the results of audits of the insurer …
In 2008, a dozen women employed by Sterling Jewelers sued the company. They’re alleging sexual discrimination at the highest levels. The matter, once argued in contractually mandated private arbitration proceedings, has now evolved into a class-action lawsuit, with the trial beginning next month…