A 19-year-old lawsuit continues to haunt State Farm Insurance, and billions potentially hang in the balance. A federal judge in East St. Louis on Sept. 16 conferred class-action status on plaintiffs representing 4.7 million State Farm policyholders. The plaintiffs allege that State Farm schemed to contribute millions to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with the intention of having the money …
A shareholder class action lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Corrections Corporation of America, a private prison company that was the subject of a recent Mother Jones investigation. Last week, the Department of Justice announced it would work to end its private prison contracts. The shareholders allege that CCA and its executive officers made false or misleading statements that put the …
Batman v Superman composer Hans Zimmer is seeing his own dawn of justice, as a man who was suing him has not only dropped his lawsuit but also apologized and wrote him a check. Composer Richard Friedman sued Zimmer in 2015, claiming the principal music from 12 Years a Slave copied his 2004 work entitled “To Our Fallen.” Friedman voluntarily dismissed his claims on Tuesday.
A provisional $18 million court settlement is very much in the interests of residents affected by the devastating 2013 Blue Mountains bushfires, a judge has found. Winmalee resident Sean Johnston launched a NSW Supreme Court class action against Endeavour Energy, claiming it failed to …
The Justice Department filed a complaint today alleging that United Airlines Inc. violated the employment rights of U.S. Air Force Reservist Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Fandrei under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). According to the complaint, United violated USERRA by denying Fandrei employment benefits during his military leave that it grants to other …
A federal judge in Delaware has indefinitely postponed a scheduled September trial in a lawsuit pitting billionaire coal magnate and West Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee James Justice Jr. against a leading U.S. coal exporter. Attorneys for the Virginia-based Justice companies and Pennsylvania-based Xcoal Energy and Resources told the judge Friday that devastating floods …
A class-action civil rights lawsuit filed late Tuesday alleges that more than a dozen St Louis-area municipalities are engaged in the discriminatory and unconstitutional practice of jailing people for unpaid debts in order to raise state revenue, a situation the suit says amounts to a system of modern-day “debtors’ prisons” that primarily affects poor residents of color. The suit alleges a …
Cash Zone store that operated at 8923 Culebra Road. In a 2-1 opinion, the 4th District Court of Appeals ruled that payday-loan customers must use arbitration instead of the courts if they think a lender illegally used the criminal justice system to pursue unpaid loans. Cash Zone store that operated at 8923 Culebra Road.
Anthem threw punches back at the U.S. Justice Department’s attempt to block the insurer’s acquisition of Cigna Corp. The response signals Anthem will indeed litigate the case to the end even though many analysts and policy experts say the company is unlikely to win In a newly filed legal response, Anthem’s lawyers argued the deal to buy Cigna is “procompetitive” and specifically would allow …
The YMCA of the Triangle has adopted a new non-discrimination policy as a result of a 2013 lawsuit from a father who said an after-school program declined to accept his son who has Type I diabetes. Bruce Hatcher, whose son was a kindergartner at Underwood GT Magnet Elementary School at the time, said YMCA officials told him that they do not administer shots and …