A $50-million settlement has been reached for hundreds of residential school survivors in Newfoundland and Labrador who have been involved in a lengthy class action with the federal government. Former students also will receive an undetermined amount of money for reconciliation and healing. They learned of the settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court on Tuesday morning.
A federal law protecting driver’s license data does not allow Wisconsin police departments to withhold driver information from accident reports, the Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. But whether that law might require such censure in other kinds of reports would …
A western Massachusetts bean sprout farm has agreed to pay $78,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that alleged the farm was discharging pollutants into the Connecticut River. The suit alleged that Chang Farms, in Whately, violated the terms of its federal Clean Water Act permit by discharging industrial wastewater into the river.
The suit, which names Sen. Harry Reid (R-NV), his son, Rory, U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro and President Obama as defendants, calls for Bundy to be released from federal custody and awarded $50 million in damages. In the complaint, Bundy alleges Reid deployed “the equivalent of federal storm-troopers” to meet Bundy’s “peaceful cowboys” defending their grazing rights on public lands. The …
South Carolina’s lawsuit calling for million-dollar fines and plutonium removal should be dismissed because the state is wrongly interpreting the laws governing a long-delayed nuclear fuel project, the U.S. Energy Department said in court documents. In its first official response to the state’s lawsuit, the federal government also argued Monday that any potential fines for …
After obtaining a $1.2 million class-action settlement with a Key West, Florida, strip club for not paying wages to dancers it treated as employees, two lawyers have filed another federal lawsuit with similar allegations against another club called Teasers. In addition to two other lawsuits, this makes a total of three similar lawsuits on behalf of dancers by Scott Atherton of West Palm Beach …
Ride-hailing corporation Uber is facing a class action lawsuit after a plaintiff filed a suit in federal court late Wednesday evening claiming officials violated federal telecommunications laws for sending unsolicited text messages to app users. The lawsuit’s plaintiff, local activist Melissa Cubria, filed the suit claiming the company’s text messages to her violated the federal Telephone …
now, you probably know your Parmesan cheese may contain wood pulp, your oatmeal might not contain maple syrup and your tuna could be a little light in the can. And that’s just from the past few months. Would-be class-action lawsuits that challenge food labeling claims have been on the rise in recent years, driven in part by increased consumer demand for healthier food and more honest labeling, …
Former members of First Baptist Church of Hammond argue in a federal lawsuit that the church is responsible for an investment fraud run by a deacon hired by the church to provide financial advice. The former parishioners – Joseph and Crystal Elwell, formerly of Schererville, and Deborah and Robert Baldwin, formerly of Crown Point – say in the lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court …
Because the American credit reporting system relies on both good and bad reports of creditworthiness, a consumer must have some kind of credit—not just the absence of bad credit. (In some countries, the lack of a credit report can establish good credit). “The American system, on other hand, relies on total surveillance,” writes Chris Jay Hoofnagle in his primer on privacy law and the Federal …