Attorneys working on behalf of Aaron Hernandez’s young daughter have refiled a lawsuit to claim the former football player was the victim to the National Football League and helmet manufacturer Riddell Inc. The legal tango in the case of the former New England Patriots star continues, nearly six months after he was found hanging in his cell at Shirley’s Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center. …
Dollar millionaire Andrey Dashin files a lawsuit against Google and Yandex The right to be forgotten: the owner of Alpari retail network cleans the Internet The owner of the group of brokerage companies Alpari and ForexTime Ltd (FXTM) Andrey Dashin demands to block a number of search links with false information about itself. As it became known to Realnoe Vremya, he appealed to the Kazan court …
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed a motion on Tuesday to dismiss death row inmate Jack Greene’s request to suspend his execution, claiming that the court has no jurisdiction to halt his impending execution. Greene’s attorneys recently filed a motion in Jefferson County, asking for a hearing to determine whether Greene is legally competent enough to be executed. …
A federal judge ruled Oct. 4 that sweeps of homeless people and their belongings may continue as a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the city of Seattle’s rules regarding the practice moves through the court. Judge Ricardo Martinez denied motions filed by attorneys representing the plaintiffs — four homeless individuals impacted by sweeps, the Real Change Homeless Empowerment …
The Bremerton nonprofit clinic that employed a Poulsbo doctor charged in 2014 with sexually assaulting women patients is being sued in federal court, with nine women claiming Peninsula Community Health Services failed to supervise Dr. Darren Chotiner even after knowing he kissed a patient in 2011. The criminal case against Chotiner made …
The lower level of 201 Poplar is full of people waiting for traffic court. Some will get fines, others will get their licenses suspended. Derrick McNeal knows plenty about that.
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court (“USSC”) will hear arguments in a matter fundamental to how employers and their employees and contractors argue about rights and entitlements. The USSC can, in these matters, equip employers with powerful tools to shut down cases that look like the currently raging Uber class action and the important Microsoft class action (2000), the latter of which resulted in thousands of contractors becoming employees and receiving benefits and equity. …
Negligence by the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. caused the triple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a court ruled Tuesday in the biggest class-action suit related to the March 2011 accident. The Fukushima District Court on Tuesday ordered the government and Tepco to pay a total of ¥498 million ($4.4 million) plus delinquency charges to 2,907 people …
Must a Pennsylvania movie theater provide special interpretation services to a patron who is deaf and blind, even if the cost will far exceed the price of a ticket to the film? Maybe, a federal appeals court has ruled. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit made that call in reviving a lawsuit filed by Paul McGann against Cinemark USA Inc. McGann, who is represented by the …
A proposed settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit against Uber Technologies, Inc. (“Uber”) regarding text messages allegedly sent in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227 et seq. (“TCPA”), from December 31, 2010 to August 17, 2017 (“Class Period”). The case is Vergara, et al. v. Uber Technologies, Inc. Case No. 1:15-CV-06942 (N.D. Ill.). This case was brought as a class action alleging that Uber violated the TCPA by sending automated text messages without consent to individuals’ cellphones. Uber denies the allegations. The Court …