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What Is a Wrongful Death Suit: Here’s Everything You Need to Know

If you’ve lost a loved one because of wrongful death and don’t know if you can file a suit, keep reading below. We will tell you what a wrongful death suit is and how you can prepare to file one. What Is a Wrongful Death Suit? A wrongful death suit is a lawsuit brought against a person or company who causes the premature death of an individual. When you get ready to file your wrongful death …


Class Action Filed Against National Auto Protection Corp. Over Telemarketing Calls

A Michigan consumer has filed a class-action lawsuit accusing a West Palm Beach company of using an unlawful telemarketing campaign. Richard Frost filed a complaint individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated on March 21 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against National Auto Protection Corp. alleging violation of the Telephone Consumer …


IMDb Sues California to Overturn Actors Age Law

IMDb has sued California’s Attorney General (and soon to be U.S. senator) Kamala Harris in an effort to overturn a new law that requires the company’s IMDb Pro to remove the ages of actors and others listed on the site if asked by them to do so. Related State Assembly Bill No. 1687 was narrowly crafted to apply only to “commercial online entertainment employment providers” that charge a …


Clinton Fails to Respond to Benghazi Lawsuit Filed by Victims’ Parents — Here’s What That Could Mean

The attorney representing parents of two Benghazi victims filed an affidavit in federal court asking for a default judgment against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she didn’t respond to a lawsuit they filed against her in August, LawNewz reported. The lawsuit from Pat Smith and Charles Woods — parents of U.S. Foreign Service member Sean Smith and Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods who died …


NCAA Dropped From UNC Academic Fraud Lawsuit

A federal judge on Friday removed the NCAA as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by former UNC-Chapel Hill athletes who said their educations were harmed by the bogus class scandal in the African studies department. U.S. District Judge Loretta C. Biggs ruled that the attorneys representing former football player Devon Ramsay and former women’s basketball player Rashanda McCants had failed to state …


Updategate: Trio Files Class-Action Suit Against Microsoft Over Windows 10

Three US citizens have filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over Updategate. Florida Windows users Al Khafaji, Ahmad Abdulreda and Robert Stahl filed the suit in a federal court, claiming that Microsoft “coerced” them into upgrading to Windows 10 and that the “unintentional” upgrades borked their machines. There have been rumblings all year from customers talking of class-action …


Gov. Robert Bentley Seeks to Dismiss Lawsuit Filed by Spencer Collier

Attorneys for Gov. Robert Bentley filed a motion in court on Monday asking a judge to dismiss a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by former ALEA Secretary Spencer Collier. Collier, the state’s top law enforcement officer who was fired by Bentley in March, filed his lawsuit against Bentley, Rebekah Caldwell Mason and others in April.



Detroit Public Schools Sues State Officials for Civil Rights Violations

Another week, another lawsuit naming Michigan Governor Rick Snyder as the defendant. The Detroit Free Press reports that on April 7, the Detroit Public Schools board of education filed a federal lawsuit against the state. The suit alleges that the state’s emergency management of the district resulted in the violation of students’ civil rights.