A father says his 15-year-old son was walking between classes at Desert Oasis High School one morning in January 2014, listening to music in his headphones, when an older classmate attacked him from behind and sent him to the hospital with a broken nose, a concussion and a head wound that required seven staples. Now James Hensley, the boy’s father, is pursuing a lawsuit that accuses the Clark …
A federal judge has granted preliminary approval for a lawsuit accusing Merck & Co Inc(MRK.N) of underpaying female sales representatives to go forward as a collective action. The lawsuit is seeking at least $250 million in damages. U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp in Trenton, New Jersey, on Wednesday granted conditional certification to a proposed class of current and former representatives …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has resurrected a class action lawsuit filed by Pfizer Inc. shareholders who allege the drug maker misled them about certain pain-relieving drugs and, in turn, cost them billions. In its April 12 decision, the federal appeals court vacated the judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New …
The judge who Uber Technologies Inc. is asking to approve its $100 million settlement with drivers isn’t keen on keeping key details of the accord a secret. While Uber says some of its metrics are trade secrets that should remain sealed from public view, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen said Wednesday he’s not sure he has enough information to decide whether the deal announced last week is fair. …
A Chicago federal appeals panel has given the P.F. Chang’s restaurant chain a case of legal indigestion, by reversing a district court’s dismissal of a class action suit brought by two diners, who claimed they were vulnerable to identity theft, because the chain’s allegedly poor data security allowed hackers to obtain diners’ debit and credit card information. The decision was delivered April …
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Thursday that German automaker Volkswagen AG (VW) has reached a settlement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), California officials and consumers over a plan to fix or buy back nearly 600,000 diesel-powered vehicles…
Violence has become a routine part of life for many students in New York City schools. There’s ample data to prove it, but even more powerful are the stories of the students affected by this epidemic of violence — the 8-year-old boy who stabbed his ear with a pencil to block out his peers’ taunts, the 11-year-old girl who eats lunch in the bathroom to avoid her longtime bully and the 13-year-…
Long Beach Middle School parents on Thursday filed a $10 million federal lawsuit against the Long Beach school district, alleging physical and sexual abuse of a student with autism by a special education teacher. Attorneys with the Garden City law firm Gerstman Schwartz Malito filed the lawsuit in the Eastern District of U.S. District Court in Central Islip against the district and several…
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.
In a blistering rebuke of the IRS, a Cincinnati-based federal appeals court has ordered the tax-collecting agency to quit stalling and produce the names of organizations it targeted based on their political leanings. The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit gave the IRS two weeks to turn over the documents sought as part of a class-action …