Closing arguments wrapped up Friday in the malpractice trial against the Phoenix VA. The judge announced she’ll make a ruling on the $50 million lawsuit on Monday. Steve Cooper is the U.S. Army veteran who filed the lawsuit.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defended its regulations over workplace wellness programs, arguing federal anti-discrimination and medical privacy laws allow employers to ask for personal health information for such programs. The EEOC issued final rules in May allowing employers to hit workers with substantial penalties if they refuse to participate in wellness programs and …
Vizio may have resolved a government investigation into data collected by internet-connected “smart” televisions, but the manufacturing giant must still contend with a proposed consumer class action on the topic after a California federal judge late last week largely denied a motion to dismiss. The lawsuit makes a variety of federal and state claims over the way Vizio’s Smart TVs use content …
Federal Judge to Reconsider Lawsuit Woman Filed Against Police After Deadly Rampage Mar 2, 20172:20 PM EST A U.S. Appeals Court is ordering a federal judge in Bangor to reconsider whether the rights of a woman from Benedicta were violated when state police contacted her ex-boyfriend. She claims that phone call set off Anthony Lord, sparking a violent rampage. Lord is accused of shooting five …
A federal judge in Houston has thrown out a lawsuit accusing UBS Group AG of hiding fraud by its client Enron Corp from retail customers, a decision that may end a 15-year legal battle stemming from the energy company’s December 2001 bankruptcy. In a 228-page decision on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon said UBS PaineWebber brokerage customers failed to …
Relativity has gotten past the first stage in its massive lawsuit against Netflix, but not without a couple of major chops from a Santa Clara Superior Court judge. At a court hearing late last week, Relativity was permitted to move forward on a claim that Netflix breached contract, but had its fair dealing claim as well as a trade libel one stricken. The two companies go way back.
A Minnesota judge will let some farmers seek punitive damages against the Syngenta seed company for selling genetically modified corn seeds before China approved imports of crops grown from them. In an order unsealed Tuesday, Hennepin County District Judge Thomas Sipkins wrote that there’s evidence Syngenta knew the risks of commercializing Viptera and Duracade corn containing a trait that …
A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed most of an investor lawsuit accusing several major banks of conspiring to manipulate the benchmark European Interbank Offered Rate, or Euribor, and related derivatives. In a 100-page decision, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan said several claims in the proposed class action must fail because of a lack of evidence …
A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges the city can’t spend taxpayer money to renovate Scottrade Center without voters deciding at the polls. The lawsuit seeks to revive a 2002 voter-approved ordinance that was struck down by a circuit court judge in 2015. One of the attorneys, John Ammann, says a different circuit court judge wouldn’t be bound by the other judge’s previous ruling.
A federal judge has cleared the way for a lead and copper mining company’s lawsuit against Union Pacific over lead pollution to move forward. This lawsuit related to contamination in Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Basin is one of several pending between Tucson, Arizona-based Asarco and Omaha, Nebraska-based Union Pacific. A judge decided last week to reject Union Pacific’s motion for summary judgment in …