A federal jury in Seattle has ordered Zillow to pay $8.3 million after finding the Seattle company infringed on copyrights of VHT Inc. on its Zillow Digs website. The suit was filed in 2015 in federal district court in Seattle, and the jury verdict was delivered Thursday, Zillow said in a regulatory filing Friday. The company said it will ask the court to reverse some portions of the verdict …
A family has won its case claiming the LBJ freeway expansion damaged their home. Aurora and Felipe Rodriguez were the first of 223 plaintiffs to go to trial against Trinity Infrastructure, claiming the construction caused the homes to shift and crack. The jury awarded them $248,000 to rebuild their home, finding the contractor behind …
The Game is trying to avoid paying over $7 million in a sexual assault lawsuit that he lost a month ago. The Compton rhymer recently filed court documents to the U.S. Court of Appeals asking for both a new trial and reduction in punitive damages a jury awarded Priscilla Rainey. Back in November, Game was found liable for damages done to Ms. Rainey who was a contestant on the VH1 reality series, …
The South Carolina Court of Appeals has offered insight into its opinion on the issue of whether a developer may contractually create and enforce jury trial and class action waivers in a master deed. The Court’s position is good news for developers and those who represent them. [i] In The Gates at Williams-Brice Condominium Association and Katharine Swinson, individually, and on behalf of all …
Two years ago, a federal jury handed a mere $80,000 to a wrongfully convicted ex-El Rukn gang member who spent more than a decade on Death Row only to be cleared of a double murder. Nathson Fields called it a “travesty” at the time and he called for a federal investigation. But little did he know, his decades-long legal saga wasn’t over.
Missouri’s highest court says it won’t intervene in a lawsuit by activists seeking an independent probe of a prosecutor’s handling of grand jury proceedings in the Ferguson police shooting of Michael Brown. The Missouri Supreme Court announced in an order obtained by media outlets Friday that it won’t hear the matter. Activists were challenging a state appellate court’s May conclusion that a …
Swift had asked a judge to keep that photo under wraps on grounds it would prejudice the potential jury. In late October, the judge granted Swift the right to seal one of the photos in evidence from the public’s viewing until the case goes to trial. However, Swift was denied a request to withhold any other evidence, including a deposition she gave.
Donald Trump is scheduled to go on trial this month in a class-action lawsuit against him and his now-defunct Trump University, potentially taking the witness stand weeks before his inauguration as president of the United States. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the Indiana-born jurist who was accused of bias by Trump during the campaign for his Mexican heritage, will hold a hearing Thursday on jury instructions and …
A University of Virginia (UVA) dean triumphed in her lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine Friday, with a jury finding the magazine liable for defaming her in an article about a bogus gang-rape on campus. Nicole Eramo sued the magazine in 2015 over her portrayal in the infamous Sabrina Erdely article “A Rape on Campus,” which recounted allegations by then-UVA student Jackie Coakley that she …
A St. Louis jury has awarded a California woman more than $70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder caused her cancer, the latest case raising concerns about the health ramifications of extended talcum powder use. The jury ruling Thursday ended the trial that began Sept. 26 in the case brought by Deborah Giannecchini of Modesto, …