A judge will likely announce next week whether a potentially very costly lawsuit against Comcast can go to trial. King County Superior Court Judge Timothy Bradshaw heard testimony last week from Comcast lawyers and those from the office of Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who have sued the MSO for $100 million, alleging the cable company’s service protection plan is basically a …
If you paid a red light ticket in Orlando between 2007-2010, you may soon qualify to be a part of a class action lawsuit to get your money back, according to a lawsuit filed in Orange County in March of this year …
A group of consumers who purchased Lenovo notebooks in late 2014 and early 2015 is asking a federal judge to grant preliminary approval to a class-action settlement requiring adware company Superfish to pay $1 million. “The settlement was the result of analysis and consideration of the litigation and financial risks faced by both sides,” class counsel writes in a motion filed Friday with U.S. …
Christoper Seeger, who represented former N.F.L. players in a concussion settlement, outside of the United States Courthouse in Philadelphia in 2014. The Supreme Court declined to review the case on Monday. …
A Utah man sued pop star Taylor Swift, claiming negligence on behalf of her agents after he wrote her a song and it was ignored. Russell Greer presented his case in small claims court Thursday evening in Salt Lake City. Greer says he spent a lot of time and money to write a song for Swift and her agents never passed it along to her.
President Elect Donald Trump just got some more bad legal news. A federal judge rejected a request to throw out a class action lawsuit filed against his Trump National country club in Jupiter, Florida (formerly the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club & Spa). The lawsuit is over deposits that were deemed un-refundable after Trump bought the business, reports the Palm Beach Post .
A U.S. District Court judge denied Trump’s motion to have a suit against his Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, dismissed. The case was presented before Judge Kenneth Marra in August during a two-day non-jury trial. Marra has yet to issue a decision. Before the trial began, lawyers for Trump asked that the case be dismissed. Marra denied …
A U.S. judge in New Jersey on Tuesday threw out a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that automaker Mercedes ( DAIGn.DE ) misled consumers about emissions standards in “BlueTec Clean Diesel” vehicles. U.S. District Judge Jose Linares said the plaintiffs did not have standing to bring the case. Plaintiffs claimed Mercedes falsely advertised the BlueTec vehicles as having lower …
A Pennsylvania judge has ruled that damaging testimony Bill Cosby gave in an accuser’s lawsuit can be used at his criminal sex assault trial.
The defense had insisted that Cosby only testified after being promised he wouldn’t be charged in the Andrea Constand case.
Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill concluded Monday that Cosby never had a promise from prosecutors that he could never be charged. The 79-year-old Cosby acknowledged in the 2006 deposition that he had given young women drugs or alcohol before sexual encounters. He called them consensual, but many of the women say they were drugged and molested. …
An attorney for Homeless Angels said she plans to file a motion asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the group by the owner of a south Lansing hotel where the nonprofit once housed Lansing-area homeless families and individuals. Attorney Denise LaFave Smith, who represents the nonprofit, said it has limited financial resources and no intention of …