The largest U.S. seller of San Marzano tomatoes, known to Italian food lovers as the best tomatoes for making pasta sauce, has been hit with two federal lawsuits claiming what’s inside the can isn’t the real thing. San Marzano insists its tomatoes are the real thing. CentoOne suit filed in New York in February alleges fraud and disputes Cento’s yield of San Marzano tomatoes, saying the …
A new proposed class action lawsuit is seeking compensation for Quebecers who’ve suffered from opioid addiction, targeting 27 companies that manufactured, marketed or sold the drugs and “deliberately misrepresented” the effects of opioids. The class action application, filed in Montreal on Thursday, seeks $30,000 in damages for each member of the class in addition to $25 million from each …
With Alabama signing its new abortion bill into law, it has adopted the most restrictive stance on abortion in the country. Under the law, abortion has been made a felony in nearly every instance, with the only exception being medical emergencies. It was announced on Friday that Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a federal lawsuit against Alabama regarding the …
On March 19, 2019 Civil rights attorney Mark Merin outlines about the upcoming legal battle for the 84 people who were arrested at a recent Stephon Clark protest in East Sacramento. Attorneys for the marchers confronted by police during Stephon Clark demonstrations in East Sacramento are suing the city of Sacramento, Sacramento County and its police and sheriff’s departments in federal court alleging civil rights violations in the mass crackdown that netted 84 people in the March protest. The 34-page suit filed Thursday in Sacramento federal court by attorneys Mark Merin and Paul Masuhara alleges a lengthy list of claims, including assault, false arrest, false imprisonment, unreasonable search and retaliation in the March 4 demonstrations that ended with riot gear-clad police and deputies herding the protesters onto the 51st Street overpass.
GettyThe National Association of REALTORS has filed a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit that was filed against the organization in March. Mantill Williams, NAR’s vice president of communications, says the group will move to dismiss the other cases as well. He also says the class action attorneys involved in the case “dreamed up” anticompetitive rules that don’t exist within NAR’s …
A class-action lawsuit was filed Sunday against TurboTax owner Intuit, alleging that the company breached an agreement with the IRS by diverting taxpayers away from its free-filing program.“ The victims of this scheme were intentionally misled and deprived of the opportunity to make an informed decision about their tax-filing service,” Eric Gibbs of Gibbs Law Group LLP, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, said in a statement. The law firms that filed the complaint said their case is the first nationwide class-action suit filed against Intuit over the free-filing issue.
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / May 13, 2019 / Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Boston Scientific Corporation (“Boston Scientific” or the “Company”) (BSX) and certain of its officers. If you are a shareholder who purchased Boston Scientific securities during the class period, you have until June 24, 2019, to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff …
The Fresno Bee endorsed Nunes in several subsequent reelection bids, until the congressman began snubbing the newsroom. It’s been more than a year since Nunes has communicated with the Bee’s newsroom. It’s not yet clear how much he’s raised since the McClatchy suit was filed. … I’ve had many cases where it was clear that a party filed a lawsuit to achieve other objectives, but this is so …
(AP) — General Motors is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a South Dakota man who claims the automaker has misled consumers about its electric car model. Jason Haas says he bought a Chevy Bolt in November 2017 from a dealer in Iowa City, Iowa. The car’s literature said the electric Bolt has a range of 238 miles. The Argus Leader reports the automaker says in its dismissal motion that …
A former patient filed a proposed class-action lawsuit April 17 against San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare and one of its hospitals after motion-activated cameras placed in operating rooms filmed more than 1,800 patients during surgeries without their consent. Sharp HealthCare officials said the cameras were installed on anesthesia carts used in the operating rooms at La Mesa, Calif.-based Sharp Grossmont Hospital’s Women’s Health Center as part of an investigation into whether an employee was stealing drugs.