When news broke on Friday that Epic Systems workers had filed a class-action lawsuit against the Verona-based software giant over overtime pay, there’s a reason people may have felt a sense of déjà vu. That’s because this same scenario has now played out four times over the past three years. Here’s a quick rundown on the new lawsuit, and why Epic’s labor practices seem to get litigated on repeat.
On Tuesday night, pretty much unprecedented news story broke: “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara was being sued by her own frozen embryos. The New York Post’s gossip section, Page Six was the first to report on the story. It’s something that can pretty much only happen in Louisiana, where the suit was filed, due to the state’s unique laws that define embryos as people in certain cases.
Two African-American employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against CNN, Turner Broadcasting and its parent company, Time Warner, alleging racial discrimination. The two plaintiffs in the lawsuit are identified as Celeslie Henley and Ernest Colbert Jr. Henley is a former executive administrative assistant at CNN, while Colbert is still employed by Turner as a senior manager …
The families of two UT football players have filed a new, class-action lawsuit against the NCAA and the Big 12 for failing to educate players about the effects on the brain for playing football. The families of Julius Whittier and Alan Rickman filed the federal lawsuit in Texas Wednesday against the Big 12 Conference and the NCAA. Both played for Texas between 1969 and 1972.
Alaska Air Group Inc. Wednesday said it agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by private plaintiffs that opposed its merger with Virgin America Inc. on antitrust grounds, removing the last big obstacle in the way of its planned deal. The suit was filed in September in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on behalf of 42 fliers and travel agents. The…
Makers of the Snuggie blanket and other products sold mainly on TV have sued Amazon.com Inc, accusing the internet retailer of trademark infringement for letting an “astronomical” number of counterfeit products to be sold through its website. The lawsuit was filed on Monday night by Allstar Marketing Group LLC, Ideavillage Products Corp and Ontel Products …
A national job-placement firm discriminated against blacks in favor of Hispanic workers to comply with racially based criteria of companies seeking temporary workers in factories, on assembly lines or for other low-skilled positions, a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of several African-Americans alleges. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, says …
A Pennsylvania judge has ruled that damaging testimony Bill Cosby gave in an accuser’s lawsuit can be used at his criminal sex assault trial.
The defense had insisted that Cosby only testified after being promised he wouldn’t be charged in the Andrea Constand case.
Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill concluded Monday that Cosby never had a promise from prosecutors that he could never be charged. The 79-year-old Cosby acknowledged in the 2006 deposition that he had given young women drugs or alcohol before sexual encounters. He called them consensual, but many of the women say they were drugged and molested. …
A minor will suffer from disability, disfigurement and a traumatic brain injury because of the deadly Woodmore Elementary school bus crash, according to a third lawsuit filed Monday in connection with the tragedy. “It is heartbreaking whenever children are involved, especially when the crash was as preventable as this one appears to be,” Joseph …
A multimillion dollar lawsuit involving employees of the former Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co. plant has been settled, just weeks before a five-week trial was scheduled to begin in Eau Claire County Court. “It has been a long and sometimes frustrating road,” said New Richmond attorney Matthew Biegert, who with others represented the claimants. “We are glad that we were able to resolve the claims …