An elderly couple has been reunited in a nursing care home — if only temporarily. In a joint statement issued Tuesday by the state and counsel for plaintiffs Noboru and Elaine Kawamoto, the couple are back to living together “pending determination by the Court of the constitutionality of certain Hawaii state statutes and …
Law office of Brodsky & Smith, LLC announces that it is investigating potential claims against the Board of Directors of Accuride Corporation (“Accuride” or “the Company”) (NYSE- ACW-News) …
A federal court has ruled that a lawsuit filed on behalf of non-exempt hourly employees working in California for Alpha Respiratory Inc. and Lincare Inc. should be able to proceed as a class action. The lawsuit seeks payment of back overtime wages and premiums for alleged missed meal breaks. Lincare, through head of public affairs Jeanne Forbis, pointed out that no actual ruling has …
A federal appeals court has refused to block part of a class-action lawsuit that seeks to force Florida local governments to refund money to motorists who were cited for running red lights after being recorded by traffic cameras. The case includes dozens of local governments throughout the state and, according to a brief filed …
Female lawyers are taking their fight for equal pay to court. Kerrie L. Campbell, a partner at big-name law firm Chadbourne & Parke, filed a $100 million class action lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of 26 current and former female partners at the firm, alleging that female partners receive less compensation than their male counterparts, the New York Times reported. Campbell’s suit is the latest …
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Waller County over its ban on guns at its courthouse. The suit, filed Monday afternoon in district court in Travis County, centers on a provision of Texas’ new open carry law, which took effect in January. The law, which allows Texans with licenses to openly carry handguns, has an exemption prohibiting …
The blessing and curse of automated dialing is that robocallers operate without human assistance. That’s great if the goal of the call is, say, to tell parents of schoolkids about a snow day. But a new class action in federal court in Ft. Worth, Texas, suggests that robocalls just might not be the best way to drum up clients in mass tort litigation.
Yirendai, the first Chinese peer-to-peer lender that went public in US, was getting into several class action lawsuits on share price decline in US stock market, as foreign investors concerned about the regulation taken out by the Chinese government would hit the firm. New York and New Jersey-based law firm Bronsteinï¼Gewirtz & Grossman filed lawsuit on Yirendai of “materially false misleading …
The state of Vermont, the Grocery Manufacturers of America and a number of other food industry groups have agreed to dismiss a federal lawsuit that challenged a state law requiring the labeling of some foods made with genetically modified organisms. In a Wednesday court filing in Vermont, the parties to the lawsuit agreed the suit was no longer needed because a new federal law …
A local lawyer who told people they could legally grow marijuana despite a federal law saying the opposite now faces a lawsuit accusing him of profiting off crimes. Ian Christensen’s law firm told couples like the Yandells that if they medically needed marijuana, he could get them a doctor’s certificate that would protect them from arrest, according to Scott and Marsha Yandell’s lawsuit. After …