The mother of a woman who was killed in a shooting at a Tennessee Waffle House last year has filed the latest lawsuit over the attack. News outlets report 21-year-old DeEbony Groves’ mother filed the suit seeking $100 million and a jury trial. The suit was filed against Travis Reinking and his father, Jeffrey Reinking. The lawsuit contends he shot and killed Groves with a gun he wasn’t supposed …
Bitconnect is being sued yet again, according to a document filed today with the US District Court of Northern California. This lawsuit, to the best of our knowledge, is the sixth brought against the company since its abrupt closure in mid-January. On its face a crypto exchange and lending venture, Bitconnect was widely consideredâeven among the often pie eyed digital token enthusiast …
A former manager at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit against the drug giant, claiming he was fired for raising questions about a lack of manufacturing standards. Stanley Koshy said in a complaint unsealed last week that he was terminated because he expressed concern over the manufacturing practices and lack of quality controls at the plant and at companies contracted to manufacture drugs for Regeneron. Koshy said his boss became so …
This notice relates to a proposed voluntary dismissal by the plaintiffs in each of four pending shareholder derivative actions, and is being given pursuant to an order of The United States District Court for the District of Utah. The purpose of the notice is to …
In November, a family filed a 1-dollar-short-of-a-billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against electronic health records (EHR) vendor eClinicalWorks. The family of Stjepan Tot claimed that a lack of transparency in the company’s EHRs prevented proper treatment of his cancer, resulting in his death. Now, primary care physicians in 2 different states have filed another class-action suit against …
Today, the Brady Center and co-counsel Covington & Burling filed suit against the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The lawsuit was filed after the ATF failed to comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for information regarding ATF’s secret — but leaked — memo about reducing regulations on the gun industry as well as documents about gun dealers that, according to ATF inspections, did not comply with their legal obligations to avoid selling guns to dangerous people. …
An attorney is seeking class-action status on behalf of Jewish prisoners in Michigan in a lawsuit that claims they’re being denied kosher certified meals. Attorneys for the prisoners filed a motion Monday, Oct. 9 in Flint U.S. District Court, seeking class-action status after claiming there are between 50 and 100 prisoners from the Michigan Department of Corrections who have been …
Muhammad Ali Enterprises on Tuesday filed a $30 million federal lawsuit against Fox Broadcasting Company, claiming Fox used without permission the late boxer’s identity in a video that aired just before its broadcast of the Super Bowl last February. In the lawsuit filed in Chicago, Muhammad Ali Enterprises contends that Fox used Ali’s “name, image and likeness as the centerpiece of its three- …
National City has received a payout from the Bernie Sanders Campaign after a lawsuit was filed in August, Mayor Ron Morrison told NBC 7. The costs are from a rally at Kimball Park, shortly before California’s presidential primary in May 2016. Monday, Morrison said they treated the debt just like any other owed to the city.
A federal judge rejected a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice alleging UnitedHealth Group inflated government reimbursement by submitting information that made Medicare Advantage members appear sicker than they were, Reuters reports. U.S. District Judge John Walter in Los Angeles ruled Thursday the DOJ’s lawsuit failed to name corporate officials of the Minnetonka, Minn.-based insurer who signed documents confirming …