Dorchester County Council and as many as 100 employees are being sued over a unique wrinkle in the county’s benefits program. The lawsuit alleges that three council members — Chairman David Chinnis, George Bailey and Willie Davis — and up to 100 other public officials, appointees or employees received illegal payments after they opted out of the county’s health and dental benefits …
A lawsuit has been filed against a former Kosciusko County news blogger. The family of Gary Helman blames Stacey Staley for his death, according to the South Bend Tribune.
SAN DIEGO & RIVERHEAD, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Shareholder rights law firm Robbins Arroyo LLP announcesthat a class action lawsuit has been filed against Suffolk Bancorp (NYSE: SCNB) in the Supreme Court for the State of New York, County of Suffolk. The complaint is brought on behalf of shareholders of Suffolk for alleged breaches of fiduciary duties in connection with the acquisition of the …
Three more Bay Area counties are facing class action lawsuits for the cost of phone calls to and from jails, an expensive process that critics argue unfairly burdens inmates’ families by making them pay excessive fees to keep in touch with loved ones. A group of attorneys who have already filed several lawsuits on the matter in Southern California filed their fourth lawsuit in …
India’s largest IT firm Tata Consultancy Services and its US affiliate have paid Orange County, Calfornia, $26 million to settle a lawsuit over what the latter termed as a “failed replacement” to the county’s automated property tax system. “TCS and Orange County have agreed to settle an ongoing dispute regarding the joint development of a Property Tax Management System,” a TCS spokesperson …
A defense attorney has filed a $10 million lawsuit in federal court in Santa Ana, alleging that his civil rights were violated when he got into a courthouse scuffle with an Orange County District Attorney’s Office investigator. James Michael Crawford is suing Orange County, the investigator, Dillon P. Alley, and a series of unnamed plaintiffs who the attorney alleges were part …
The Missouri Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the University of Missouri Board of Curators in support of a university law professor’s challenge to the campus firearms ban. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Boone County, Andrew Hirth, deputy general counsel for Attorney General Chris Koster, wrote that the campus ban on guns conflicts with state law.
State attorneys told a judge that Linn County shouldn’t be allowed to represent other timber counties in a lawsuit that seeks $1.4 billion from Oregon because of its forest-management practices. The county wants the case to proceed as a class action. Scott Kaplan, an attorney for the state, said during oral arguments Wednesday that would be impractical because there are different …
Lawyers for Ron Hickman of Harris County filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by a rape victim whom prosecutors got a judge to put in jail after the victim had a mental breakdown while testifying against her accused rapist. Channel 2 exposed the situation of “Jenny” and another rape victim who were held in jail so prosecutors could make sure they testified against …
The same company involved in the Greene County Fair Ferris wheel incident settled a lawsuit last year with a North Carolina family who was seriously hurt in an incident involving a ride malfunction at the North Carolina State Fair. Court documents show Family Attractions reached a confidential settlement with members of the Gorham family. Another company named …