General Mills’ granola bar company is under fire from consumers. (Nature Valley) Whole grain oats, peanuts and…pesticide? On Wednesday, three lawsuits were filed against General Mills’ granola bar purveyor Nature Valley.
Another lawsuit has been filed against the sushi restaurants that served scallops that are the likely source of Hawaii’s hepatitis A outbreak. A class-action lawsuit was filed Tuesday on behalf of those who got vaccinated because they ate at Genki Sushi during the exposure period or had contact with someone who was sickened. Seattle-based attorney Bill Marler says the lawsuit …
A second lawsuit has been filed in connection to a high-speed pursuit that began in Coffee County and ended 31 miles later in Rutherford County. The pursuit started when Garieon Simmons allegedly stole an SUV from a Manchester funeral home in Coffee County on June 24. He led law enforcement on the two-county chase before he hit two vehicles on South …
A California gun rights group has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the …
The family of a 66-year-old disabled woman who was run over by a MAX train — after the wheelchair she was in careened in between two moving train cars — has filed a $50,000 wrongful death lawsuit against TriMet. Media reports shortly after the incident stated that it appeared Bertha Kelly’s son had jumped onto his mother’s lap and accidentally hit the toggle controller of her motorized …
Wahlburgers, the reality show-famous burger chain run by actor Mark Wahlberg and his family, is being accused of stiffing its employees. A class-action lawsuit filed by five employees says a Coney Island franchise has committed wage theft and violated numerous state and federal labor laws, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The lawsuit filed yesterday in New York alleges that Wahlburgers’ …
Morgan Stanley was hit with a class action Friday, filed on behalf of 60,000 workers. The suit claims that the company mismanaged its own employees’ retirement plans by offering poorly performing funds and charging excessive fees.
Environmental groups have filed a federal lawsuit to stop a 516-miles natural gas pipeline project that would travel through three Southeastern states. Groups including the Sierra Club filed the lawsuit Wednesday in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
The Missouri Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the University of Missouri Board of Curators in support of a university law professor’s challenge to the campus firearms ban. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Boone County, Andrew Hirth, deputy general counsel for Attorney General Chris Koster, wrote that the campus ban on guns conflicts with state law.
Columbia University was sued Tuesday on claims its retirement plans charged excessive fees. This follows a string of similar litigation filed over the past week against several top universities, leading to speculation that these suits are merely the first volleys in what’s likely to be a developing trend. The plaintiff in the proposed class-action lawsuit is seeking $100 million from Columbia …