[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] dismissed [Opinion, PDF] on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by third party presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein against the Commission on Presidential Debates [official website] requesting that third party candidates be included in the presidential debate this year. The candidates did not receive …
A lawsuit has been filed against Texas’ governor and secretary of state regarding the alleged denial of equal opportunity for Latino voters in electing judges of their race. The suit filed by five Latino voters alleges that Texas is in violation of the Voting Rights Act for the process used to elect judges to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeal and the Supreme Court. The legal team …
The case could pit the power of the judiciary against the authority of the prime minister. In the hall of London’s Inner Temple, a grand dining chamber with stained-glass windows and coats of arms adorning the walls, 300 lawyers assembled to …
A Westmoreland County man is suing WTAE-TV and its parent company, Hearst Stations Inc., as well as reporter Marcie Cipriani, claiming his reputation was damaged by a news story concerning a marijuana arrest. The suit, filed in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court in June but removed to federal court last week, claims that a video report and a subsequent online version of it have damaged the …
The federal agency tasked with granting the U.S. Navy permission to use low-frequency active sonar for training, testing and routine operations in oceans around the world didn’t do enough to protect marine mammals, a panel of judges in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided recently. Advocates, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Humane Society of …
After two years of legal back-and-forth, a Columbia student will be allowed to sue the University, which he claims violated his Title IX rights in an adjudication process that found him responsible for sexual assault. The student, identified by the pseudonym “John Doe,” initially filed a lawsuit against the University in the spring of 2014. But after a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit …
Engineer Bryan Thompson had initially sued BNSF Railway for neglecting safety measures, but added Standard Steel later. Thompson was injured in the derailment, according to court documents. He alleges that a Standard Steel-made axle “failed suddenly and catastrophically,” causing the derailment, a complaint initially filed in Cass County District Court alleges.
Chicago Federal Center and the Dirksen Federal Building, which houses the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals – Photo: Teemu008, via Wikimedia. On Friday, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court judgment dismissing a lesbian’s employment discrimination lawsuit.
Gainey McKenna & Egleston announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Tokai Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Tokai” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:TKAI) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of common stock of Tokai between June 24, 2015 through July 25, 2016, inclusive (the “Class …
Chief U.S. District Court Judge P.K. Holmes III on Wednesday reprimanded five attorneys, including the husband of a state Supreme Court justice, after finding bad faith and abuse of the court system in their manipulation of a controversial class-action case.