A decision might come soon for a group of residents seeking relief after their claims related to storm damage were denied by FEMA last year. Rio Grande Valley residents are part of a federal lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Administration, or FEMA, claiming …
Attorneys for the plaintiffs in a federal climate lawsuit yesterday named President Trump as a defendant in the case. In 2015, a group of kids, young adults and environmentalists sued the U.S. government and top officials — including President Obama — for failing to protect them from the dangers of climate change, despite detailed warnings and research of its risks. Julia Olson, a lawyer for …
An unhappy customer has filed a class action lawsuit against an international snack company over allegations that it shortchanged her with the amount of product in its candy packaging. Tamika Daniel of Brooklyn, New York, has accused Mondelez International of fraud and negligent misrepresentation. Daniel alleges the company has been selling products with too …
German automaker BMW AG (BMWG.DE) has agreed to pay up to $477.7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit covering about 318,000 U.S. luxury car owners who may have suffered water damage harming electrical components in vehicle trunks. According to settlement documents filed in U.S. District Court in New York last week, the settlement covers owners of …
University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto (Photo: File ) The University of Kentucky has won its lawsuit against its own student newspaper, with a judge from Lexington ruling this week that the school was right to withhold documents about a sexual assault case involving a former professor. Fayette Circuit Court Judge Thomas Clark ruled that the investigative documents the Kentucky Kernel, …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has declined to dissolve a class action settlement regarding alleged violations of the Kentucky Wage and Hour Act. Plaintiffs William Whitlock, David Skyrm, James Middleton and Kristin Moore, who were former employees of Fourth Street Live, an entertainment area located in downtown Louisville, filed a suit in Kentucky …
Judicial Watch asked a federal court for additional discovery over the Clinton email issue. In addition to document requests, the new Revised Discovery Proposal asks for depositions from Clinton, Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and eight other State Department …
Bob Seay, host of WGBH’s Morning Edition, interviewed WGBH News legal analyst and Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed about Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s recent victory against ExxonMobil in an ongoing lawsuit against the company. Below is a lightly edited transcript of their conversation My understanding is the attorney general is suing ExxonMobil for failing to …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has considered plans to go into government, according to court documents seen by Bloomberg . The documents were filed as part of a shareholder lawsuit accusing Facebook’s board of failing to represent the best interests of those holding Facebook’s common stock.
Swiss Bank UBS might not be off the hook and could be back in court with four other new banks in an ever-evolving lawsuit that alleges manipulation of gold and silver prices during the daily fix. A report filed in U.S. District Court in New York, Wednesday, provided evidence of collusion among the fixing banks: The Bank of Nova Scotia, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Societe …