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Lawsuits Oct 11, 2017

A 21-Year-Old Who Was Shot in the Chest During the Las Vegas Shooting Is Suing the Mandalay Bay Hotel

A victim of the Las Vegas shooting has filed a lawsuit against
the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.

On Monday, 21-year-old Paige Gasper filed a lawsuit against the
Mandalay Bay and MGM Resorts International, the hotel’s parent company, alleging that the hotel was “negligent or grossly negligent” in failing to notice or take precautions against the shooter stockpiling guns in his room, and that employees were not adequately trained to notice and report suspicious activity. …

Lawsuits Oct 11, 2017

Lawsuit Filed Against Moran, Texas, Bump Stock Maker Slide Fire

A gun control group has filed suit against a bump stock manufacturer seeking damages and counseling for the survivors of a mass shooting in Las Vegas earlier this month. Gunman Stephen Paddock had 12 rifles mounted with bump stocks when he fired from his 32nd floor suite in the Mandalay Hotel at the street-level Route 91 Harvest Festival, before killing himself. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed the class action suit against …

News Oct 10, 2017

Lawsuit Over Las Vegas Shooting Tests Gun Industry’s Immunity

Last week’s massacre at a Las Vegas country music festival offers gun control advocates a fresh chance to test a law, put in place by Republicans and the gun industry’s lobby, that protects the industry from liability for the criminal actions of some of their customers. Starting with a lawsuit filed late last week in Nevada state court, the effort follows similar litigation over mass killings, …

Lawsuits Oct 9, 2017

Las Vegas Concert Goers File Lawsuit Against Bump Stock Company

A group of people who attended the Route 91 Harvest Festival are suing a company that makes bump fire stocks, KLAS reports.

Police say gunman Stephen Paddock had an arsenal of weapons, including bump fire stocks, in his hotel suite when he opened fire on the music festival one week ago, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds others. Bump fire stocks are …

Notices Oct 9, 2017

Pomerantz Law Firm Announces the Filing of a Class Action Against Arconic, Inc. And Certain Officers – ARNC, ARNC-PB

Pursuant to Court Order, Pomerantz LLP hereby advises investors of the filing of class action lawsuits against Arconic Inc. (“Arconic” or the “Company”) (NYSE:ARNC) (NYSE:ARNC-PB), certain of the Company’s current and former officers and directors, and underwriters of certain of the Company’s securities (collectively, “Defendants”). On August 11, …

News Aug 22, 2017

Kendall and Kylie Jenner Slapped With 1st Lawsuit Over T-Shirt Fiasco

Kendall and Kylie aren’t out of hot water just yet. As previously reported, the reality stars came under fire this week, after releasing a new line of T-shirts featuring photos of major cultural icons such as Biggie, Tupac, Jim Morrison of The Doors, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Pink Floyd, and Ozzy Osbourne, among others. While the tees were quickly pulled from …

Lawsuits May 15, 2017

Lawsuit Claims Kansas City Skirting Court Mandate on Overtime Pay for EMTs, Paramedics

Three years after Kansas City settled claims that it had failed to pay certain overtime wages, Fire Department medical staff are back in court saying the city is circumventing the court’s ruling. A lawsuit filed Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court on behalf of certain emergency medical technicians and paramedics says the city has lowered some pay scales — so that the plaintiffs continue to …

Lawsuits May 2, 2017

Keurig Faces Lawsuit From Liberty Mutual for $100K Home Fire

Vermont-based brewing company Keurig is reportedly being slapped with a lawsuit two years after one of its coffee machines sparked a costly fire at an Upton home. Boston-based insurer Liberty Mutual claims the coffee machine is to blame for the $100,000 in damages to the home. The lawsuit was filed in Suffolk Superior Court, reports the Boston Globe.

Lawsuits Apr 26, 2017

Survivors of Oakland Halfway House Fire File Lawsuit

Residents of the building have filed a lawsuit over a fire in West Oakland that left four people dead. Candice Nguyen reports. Survivors of a deadly fire that tore through a West Oakland halfway house last month sued their former landlord and the nonprofits that acted as master tenants Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court, saying their slum-like housing conditions were illegal and led to …

Settlements Mar 24, 2017

Instacart Agreed to Settle a Class-Action Lawsuit for $4.6 million

On the heels of a $400 million round at a $3.4 billion valuation, Instacart has agreed on a $4.65 million fee to settle a class-action lawsuit around claims that the on-demand grocery delivery startup misclassified its personal shoppers as independent contractors, and also failed to reimburse them for their work expenses, Recode reports. There are more than 31,000 Instacart shoppers involved in …