In what could be the first lawsuit in the United States related to the exploding batteries of the Galaxy Note 7, a man from Florida filed charges against Samsung after the smartphone exploded while in the front pocket of his pants. According to the lawsuit, which was filed by a man named Jonathan Strobel, the smartphone exploded on Sept. 9. That date is a week after Samsung launched an …
North Carolina’s governor is dropping a lawsuit defending a law limiting LGBT protections as he pursues similar arguments in a separate case. Gov. Pat McCrory’s lawyers filed notice Friday that they’re voluntarily dismissing the lawsuit filed in May in a Raleigh federal court.
Two employees scolded by fryer grease after a floor collapsed at a Church’s Chicken in Livingston have filed a lawsuit against the franchise for $150 million, the women’s attorney announced this week. Hugolina Guerrero de Garzon and Joselin Damian Gonzalez were two of three employee who were working in the restaurant’s kitchen August 1 when the floor collapsed around 6:30 p.m, …
A Dallas Police sergeant filed a lawsuit on Friday against Black Lives Matter and its supporters, alleging the group is inciting a race war. Sgt. Demetrick Pennie, a 17-year veteran of the force, is seeking between $500 million and $1.5 billion in the complaint filed in federal court, the Dallas Morning News reported.
Yale University says it wasn’t trying to make an example of former basketball captain Jack Montague when it expelled him over a sexual assault allegation. The school on Friday filed its formal response to Montague’s federal lawsuit filed in June. The lawsuit accuses the Ivy League university of punishing Montague over what he believes was consensual sex.
A federal judge in Eugene, Oregon, is considering arguments about whether a lawsuit brought by a group of children and a leading climate scientist can go forward. The plaintiffs’ lawsuit alleges that the federal government has known for more than 50 years that carbon pollution causes climate change, but it has failed to implement plans to phase out greenhouse gas emissions. …
There have been a lot of recent lawsuits filed by women partners at Biglaw firms alleging gender discrimination. But none have been as intriguing as the purported class action lawsuit filed against Chadbourne & Parke. The allegations in the complaint are juicy, natch, with Kerrie Campbell alleging she was paid less than her male counterparts and that the firm is in the “dark …
PNC Financial Services Group will pay at least $24 million to settle class-action claims that a Virginia bank it acquired charged excessive fees and kicked back money to a mortgage broker for customer referrals. The settlement first reported Tuesday by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is detailed in documents filed in U.S. District Court, Pittsburgh. It stems from claims filed …
Lawsuits targeting Chicago taxi companies for adding a 50-cent surcharge to nearly 410,000 credit card payments over three-plus months this spring have been garaged, according to a settlement agreement filed Sept. 9 in Cook County Circuit Court. On Feb. 22, Chicago resident James Freeman-Hargis filed a class action complaint against Taxi Affiliation Services, a Chicago-based company affiliated …
Months after a lawsuit was filed against Honda for using an eco-friendly material experts say attracts rodents, a new lawsuit filed in Los Angeles suggests there could be tens of millions of defective Toyota vehicles and drivers left to pay for thousands of dollars in repairs. Al Heber says rodents — in this case squirrels — are gnawing away at the wiring inside his Toyota pickup truck. Tired …