An unhappy customer has filed a class action lawsuit against an international snack company over allegations that it shortchanged her with the amount of product in its candy packaging. Tamika Daniel of Brooklyn, New York, has accused Mondelez International of fraud and negligent misrepresentation. Daniel alleges the company has been selling products with too …
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide as early as next week whether to hear the appeal of a Sixth Circuit decision upholding a class-action settlement that distributed only $1.6 million to consumers but yielded $2.4 million for the attorneys who represented them. Objectors and the attorneys general of 17 states urge the court to take the case and hand down tighter rules on how lower courts consider the value of a settlement for calculating legal fees. …
A partner in a large Washington law firm who had spent years prosecuting fraud cases was arrested and accused of trying to sell a copy of a sealed federal lawsuit to a Silicon Valley company targeted in the suit. Jeffrey A. Wertkin, 40, joined the Akin Gump law firm in the …
First Lady Melania Trump has settled a defamation lawsuit against a US blogger for a “substantial sum”, it was reported today. Blogger Webster Tarpley agreed to publish an apology, in which he said he had published an article that was “replete with false and defamatory statements about her.” According to court documents filed in October, the article reported false …
It’s a little icky all around. First lady Melania Trump is seeking $150 million from the Daily Mail newspaper, charging in a lawsuit filed Monday in New York state commercial court that the outlet published damaging and unfounded allegations that she once worked as an “elite escort” in the “sex business.” Beyond demonstrating that the Trumps are more than willing to take the offensive when it comes to lawsuits, the complaint also reveals plans for yet another extension of the Trump empire, arguing that Melania’s brand has “lost significant value” and has impacted …
Last week, a federal appeals court reversed and sent back to a district court a $10 million settlement in a data breach class action brought against Target. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit explained in its Feb. 1 opinion that while the U.S. Supreme Court has not said what, specifically, a “rigorous analysis” of class certification prerequisites …
A lawsuit filed Monday in Louisiana alleges the state is negligent in guaranteeing Constitutional rights of poor people by not properly funding or maintaining the public defender system. The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and two other law firms filed a class action suit Monday in Baton Rouge against Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards …
A nurse is challenging a Maryland county’s stun gun ban on Second Amendment grounds. Leah Baran sued in federal court after stun gun manufacturer Taser International refused to ship the device to her home in Howard County last month, Courthouse News Service reports. Baran says she wants a stun gun becasue she fears for her life after her ex-boyfriend broke into her home, raped her and tried to …
Grand Rapids is hoping a federal judge will speed up the process of firing three officers implicated in the case of a former assistant prosecutor’s wrong-way crash in November. The city filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday, Feb. 3, asking a judge to settle a dispute between the city and its police unions. The disagreement regards five phone calls between the officers — …
Attorneys for plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit regarding Flint’s water crisis say they are going to appeal a federal judge’s dismissal of one of four cases. “This is really just a temporary setback,” said Michael Pitt, an attorney representing Flint community activist Melissa Mays and other Flint residents in the class action lawsuits. “We are going to take an appeal to the …