An amended civil complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for Kansas alleges the Kansas Department for Children and Families, as well as other agencies and individuals, are engaged in a “Kids for Cash type unlawful enterprise.” “Private agencies are contracted that the longer they keep the kids, the more funding they get,” said plaintiff Raymond Schwab. “They allegedly, …
TO: ALL PERSONS WHO PURCHASED MOL GLOBAL, INC. (“MOL”) AMERICAN DEPOSITARY SHARES (“ADS”) DURING THE PERIOD FROM OCTOBER 9, 2014 THROUGH AND INCLUDING NOVEMBER 21, 2014 YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, pursuant to an Order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the …
The Texas Supreme Court dealt a blow Friday to hundreds of families whose homes were ruined by 1998’s Tropical Storm Frances, 2001’s Tropical Storm Allison and a 2002 flooding event. The high court dismissed a class-action lawsuit that Edward and Norma Jean Kerr filed 15 years ago against the Harris County Flood Control District on behalf of …
SUMMARY NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF CLASS ACTION AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT TO: ALL PERSONS AND ENTITIES WHO PURCHASED OR ACQUIRED COMMON STOCK OF NAVISTAR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (“NAVISTAR” OR THE “COMPANY”) (TICKER SYMBOL: NAV) BETWEEN March 10, 2010 and August 1, 2012, BOTH DATES INCLUSIVE (THE “CLASS PERIOD”). PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY. YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY A CLASS ACTION …
A Connecticut judge is hearing arguments today to decide whether the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school tragedy can sue the maker of the AR-15 rifle that was used in the 2012 massacre. Judge Barbara Bellis of State Superior Court in Bridgeport heard from lawyers on both sides of the high-profile case. Some of the families of the 26 victims of Adam Lanza’s killing spree at Sandy …
Israel’s Central District Court has approved a $400 million privacy class-action suit against Facebook, ruling that the company’s terms-of-use requirement for all lawsuits to be heard in California was invalid, Haaretz reports. The suit alleged that the company both breached privacy protocols by targeting advertisements based off of users’ private posts, and failed to register its database in …
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Illinois smokers who sought reinstatement of a $10.1 billion class-action judgment in a long-running lawsuit against Philip Morris. The justices did not comment in leaving in place an Illinois Supreme Court ruling in favor of the cigarette maker. The smokers objected to the participation of state Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier, who they …
Lawyers for media mogul Sumner Redstone on Monday filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit in Massachusetts court alleging Redstone wasn’t mentally competent when he removed two trustees of entities that control Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp. Redstone’s attorneys are asking the probate court in Canton to toss out the lawsuit, saying Redstone has not been deemed incompetent by a court or by …
Remington Arms, parent company of the manufacturer of the assault rifle used by Adam Lanza in the Newtown elementary school shooting, returned to a Connecticut courtroom today to ask a judge to strike a lawsuit by families of nine victims who died and by one teacher who was wounded but survived. The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012 killed 20 students and six educators. …
Courts have generally enforced arbitration agreements if they allow employees to exercise their rights and aren’t too one-sided in favor of the employer. However, conflicting decisions by federal appeals courts have left employers uncertain as to whether they can require employees to sign class-action waivers as part of …