Government

Lawsuits Mar 1, 2018

Nigerian Government Motions to Join Lawsuit Against ASU

The Federal Republic of Nigeria filed a motion in federal court Monday to join approximately 40 Nigerian students in a lawsuit against Alabama State University. The motion is the latest movement in a lawsuit filed in Aug. 2016 that initially listed the Nigerian government as a defendant, a decision Julian McPhillips, attorney for the students, said was a formality at the time. The lawsuit claims that throughout the students’ expected four-year tenure, ASU erroneously charged …

Opinion Feb 27, 2018

Kent: Op-Ed Meant to ‘Inform Americans’ About ‘Extravagant’ Khadr Settlement

Conservative foreign affairs critic Peter Kent penned a scathing op-ed in the Wall Street Journal he says in order to educate the American public about the Omar Khadr case, while also blasting the federal government’s decision to issue an apology and a reported $10.5-million settlement to the former child soldier and Guantanamo Bay detainee. In the piece titled “A terrorist’s big payday, …

News Oct 10, 2017

Japanese Court Rules Against Government, Tepco in Biggest Fukushima Class Action

Negligence by the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. caused the triple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a court ruled Tuesday in the biggest class-action suit related to the March 2011 accident. The Fukushima District Court on Tuesday ordered the government and Tepco to pay a total of ¥498 million ($4.4 million) plus delinquency charges to 2,907 people …

Legal News Oct 9, 2017

Federal Judge Tosses Lawsuit Accusing UnitedHealth of Overbilling Medicare

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 …

Legal News Oct 9, 2017

Whistleblower Lawsuit Filed in California Against UnitedHealth Group Is Dismissed

A federal judge has dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit against Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group that alleged the nation’s largest health insurer wrongly received higher payments from Medicare based on false information about enrollee health problems that could have been corrected. The ruling, handed down late last week in the U.S. District Court for Central California, does not halt a …

News Oct 9, 2017

Canadian Government Settles Lawsuit Over Children ‘Scooped’ Out of Indigenous Communities

The Canadian federal government of Justin Trudeau yesterday responded to a group of lawsuits by agreeing to pay C$750 million to the survivors of the “Sixties Scoop” program, in which 20,000 First Nations children were removed from their parents’ households and placed with non-indigenous foster or adoptive parents. The …

Settlements Sep 29, 2017

DOJ Settles Travel Ban Lawsuit

The Justice Department Friday settled a class action lawsuit filed by those unable to enter the U.S. following President Donald Trump’s initial travel ban. The settlement would allow for people who attempted to enter the country at first but could not to enable anyone whose visas were rejected the right to reapply. …

Class-Actions Aug 21, 2017

Class-Action Trouble for Infosys?

There is always a huge cost to pay if you wash your dirty linen in public. If the cost were to come in the form of class-action suits, it could turn even more expensive. A class-action suit now seems inevitable given what happened at Infosys this past week.

News, Opinion Aug 15, 2017

[Opinion] Why the First Lawsuit Against Trump’s Trans Troops Ban Is So Ingenious

In their lawsuit, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) allege the White House has turned Trump’s tweets into “official guidance … to be communicated to the Department of Defense.” They argue that this guidance infringes upon the equal protection and due process rights of trans troops. According to their complaint, the “categorical exclusion …

Lawsuits May 10, 2017

Feds to Ask for Dismissal of Tennessee’s Refugee Lawsuit

NASHVILLE DEBATES IMMIGRATION ISSUESVideo:Donald Trump addresses blocked travel ban during Nashville rally | 1:05 A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked President Donald Trump’s new travel ban on Wednesday afternoon, hours before the ban was set to go into effect. Kyleah Starling/The Tennessean A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked President Donald Trump’s new travel ban on Wednesday afternoon, …