Memorial residents are raising funds for their legal counsel in a lawsuit about the area’s flooding. The aptly named Residents Against Flooding group, an area non-profit, filed the suit against the city of Houston and its Memorial-area redevelopment zone in late May, hours after a round of devastating rains left the area flooded. The residents allege the city and TIRZ 17, which is also called …
Tony Romo’s National Fantasy Football Convention received more bad news this week. The original lawsuit the NFFC filed against the NFL was entirely dismissed by Dallas judge Carl Ginsberg on Tuesday. “We are very pleased by the court’s ruling dismissing all of the NFFC’s claims in this case,” said Thad Behrens, lead counsel for the NFL.
The certification of class action status to current and former gold mineworkers suffering from silicosis and tuberculosis against over 30 historic and current gold mining companies in South Africa potentially opens the door for similar litigation across several sectors, including coal and manganese. Law firm Fasken Martineau partner Paul Fouché explains that there is common ground between the …
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY In re: OCEAN POWER TECHNOLOGIES, Case No. 14-3799 (FLW) (LHG) INC. SECURITIES LITIGATION TO: ALL PERSONS OR ENTITIES WHO PURCHASED OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRED OCEAN POWER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (“OPT”) SECURITIES BETWEEN JANUARY 14, 2014 AND JULY 29, 2014, INCLUSIVE, AND/OR PURCHASED OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRED OPT SECURITIES PURSUANT TO AND/OR TRACEABLE TO …
A federal appeals court has reinstated a retaliation lawsuit filed by a post office employee who was fired after she refused her supervisor’s requests to give him a picture of herself in a bikini. Hillary A. Kacian, a worker at the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, post office, said after she refused requests by her supervisor, George LaRue, to provide the photo, he began …
When Samya Moftah walked into the Macy’s flagship New York store looking for gifts for her family last summer, she did not expect to be locked in a basement cell and charged with multiple crimes. Nor did the department store, already blighted by allegations of racism, expect to have another lawsuit on its hands. Moftah, 53, was carrying two bags – one from JC Penney, and the second from a …
A click-bait website with more than 2 million likes on Facebook used Billy Graham’s name and likeness to get clicks, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association filed suit against the operator of the website GodToday.com. The owner is “clandestine” and identified in court documents as “John …
A federal judge ruled in favor of the city of Portland on Thursday in a lawsuit brought by a white, American-born taxicab driver who claimed he was a victim of discrimination for being denied one of 43 permits to work as part of the Portland International Jetport’s taxi pool. The driver, Paul McDonough of South Portland, claimed in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland in 2015 …
Cinemark, the company that owns the Aurora cineplex where 12 people were murdered in 2012, is seeking nearly $700,000 from several victims of the attack who unsuccessfully sued the theater chain. Lawyers for Cinemark earlier this month filed a “bill of costs” for $699,187.13 in Arapahoe County District Court. Colorado court rules say that the winning side in a civil case is allowed to recover …
The Rosen Law Firm, P.A. and Pomerantz LLP announce that the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has approved the following announcement of a proposed class action settlement that would benefit purchasers of common stock of Walter Investment Management Corp. (NYSE:WAC): …