A Kendall County judge says he will issue a written decision in 45 days on whether a lawsuit filed against former U.S. House speaker Dennis Hastert by a sexual abuse victim should be dismissed. Characterizing the lawsuit as a form of extortion, attorneys for Hastert asked Judge Robert Pilmer to dismiss a lawsuit brought in April by the man who contends Hastert owes him …
Goldman Sachs on Friday won a lawsuit filed against it by the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), a government-managed sovereign wealth fund. The Libyan fund had sued the American investment bank for $1.2bn (£984m) over losses that it had incurred from derivatives purchased in 2008. The LIA had alleged that Goldman Sachs had wooed the fund’s officials with prostitutes, fine-dining in London’s …
A federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit filed against the state of Utah on behalf of several mentally ill prison inmates. The Disability Law Center is suing the state on behalf of three inmates in Utah jails, alleging that they’re being held unconstitutionally while they wait to get treatment at the Utah State Hospital. Aaron Kinikini is the center’s legal director.
Some lawsuits just make you want to roll your eyes. Take, for instance, two different cases over eye drops. In one case, a federal class action lawsuit that has been certified against several drug companies, claiming that the dispenser on their prescription eye drop bottles is too large, causing excessive drops to roll down the plaintiffs’ cheeks.
A class-action lawsuit arguing undocumented children should be allowed government-appointed lawyers during deportation proceedings cannot move forward, a federal appeals court in Seattle ruled Tuesday. The three-judge panel was not addressing the claim itself; whether due process and statutory rights of minors are being violated. The decision, given in their written opinion, was based on …
Wal-Mart has decided to appeal the court’s decision in the near future Published By: Jawwad Iqbal on September 22, 2016 09:35 am EST It appears that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) maybe tied in a high profile litigation battle soon. According to an earlier report published on Reuters, the company is being slapped with a lawsuit leveled by shareholders who feel defrauded by Wal-Mart for hiding …
A federal judge granted class-action status to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. shareholders who filed a lawsuit in 2012 alleging the retailer defrauded investors by covering up a bribery scheme in Mexico. In a Fayetteville ruling earlier this week, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Hickey rejected Wal-Mart’s argument that the City of Pontiac General Employees’ Retirement System — a Michigan-based …
After a Connecticut judge called his state’s school funding system “irrational” and “unconstitutional,” an eleven-year-old school funding lawsuit is now headed to the state supreme court for final adjudication. In 2005, a coalition made up of municipalities, parents and education advocacy groups and calling itself the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding filed a lawsuit …
Some customers of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. claim the company conspired to help elect an Illinois Supreme Court candidate so he could vote to throw out a $1 billion award against the company. Now they will be able to bring their case as a group. A federal judge on Sept. 16 ruled that 4.7 million State Farm policyholders can band together to sue the insurer for allegedly lying …
A federal judge has ruled that a negligence lawsuit filed by the families of seven victims, as well as two survivors, can continue against the employers of the computer technician who opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard on Sept. 16, 2013, killing 12 people. Navy Yard Shooting
It’s been three years since the Navy Yard shooting. This is the gallery WTOP ran at that time.