Magic Leap, the mysterious augmented reality company with no actual product, continues to self-destruct. A new lawsuit filed today in Southern Florida District Court accuses the company of creating a hostile workplace for women and of using misleading marketing materials to depict the product’s capabilities. In the lawsuit, former vice president of marketing Tannen Campbell claims she was hired …
The Justice Department said in a brief filed Monday that it would continue to defend President Donald Trump’s targeted travel ban in the federal appeals court in San Francisco, which on Thursday refused to reinstate it. The department did not say whether it would try to appeal that ruling to the Supreme Court. But its silence on the matter suggested that the Trump administration …
Energy Transfer Rover Pipeline is one step closer to burying its gas line in Lenawee, Washtenaw and Livingston counties after the company filed a federal lawsuit Friday, Feb. 3 to start construction. ET Rover is trying to install a natural gas pipeline throughout West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. About 58 companies, government entities and/or individuals …
Now it’s getting interesting. A new court filing made on behalf of dozens of people claiming Monsanto Co.’s Roundup herbicide gave them cancer includes information about alleged efforts within the Environmental Protection Agency to protect Monsanto’s interests and unfairly aid the agrichemical industry. The filing, made late Friday by plaintiff’s attorneys, includes what the attorneys represent …
Last week, the United States Supreme Court informed litigants in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis that it is pushing the case to its October 2017 term. The lawsuit, which rose up through the Western District of Wisconsin and the Seventh Circuit, presents the High Court with a chance to resolve a robust circuit split on the question whether mandatory arbitration clauses in …
A settlement agreement has been reached, but neither the victim nor the church she said failed to report her sexual abuse to the authorities can talk about it. On the fifth day of trial Monday in Philadelphia County Court, Stephanie Fessler, of Lancaster, settled the suit she filed against the Jehovah’s Witness Church in Spring Grove. “The matter with the Jehovah’s Witnesses has …
An appeals court has upheld a judge’s dismissal of Mayor Stephanie Miner’s lawsuit against Cor Development over the property tax deal the company got for its $342 million Syracuse Inner Harbor project. The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court in Rochester unanimously dismissed on Friday the city’s appeal of Judge James Murphy’s year-old order. Miner sued Cor on Dec. 15, …
Trump administration spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway recently defended false statements about inauguration crowd size as “alternative facts,” provoking a great kerfuffle. But in the class-action world, trial lawyers have been making millions on alternative facts for decades. And, astonishingly, courts disagree over whether it’s permissible for lawyers to use alternative facts to …
The Bloomfield City Council may vote today to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review the lawsuit over the Ten Commandments monument on the lawn of City Hall. Councilors are set to enter a closed session during their meeting Monday and could vote to file a petition for a writ of certiorari, according to the agenda for the meeting. A writ of certiorari asks the Supreme Court to order a lower court to produce its record of the case for the high court to review. The closed session will allow councilors to …
New developments in the rape kit testing class action lawsuit against the City of Memphis. Kits that have been sitting untested for years. The victims will be able to go forward against the City of Memphis.