Lawsuit

Colorado Gun Rights Group Files Lawsuit Over ‘Red Flag’ Law

Rocky Mountain Gun Owners filed a  lawsuit Thursday over the “red flag” gun law, arguing that the House Democrats violated the legislative process. Head of the gun rights group Dudley Brown and several House Republicans say Democrats who control the House did not fulfill a Republican request to read the bill out loud in full in an intelligible way.“In this case, Democrats didn’t see that they were violating the Constitution to pass a bill to violate the Constitution. And now they’re going to see it,” Brown said. Other lawsuits could be aimed at the substance of the law and efforts to recall legislators who supported it are in the works, he said.


Lawsuit: US Pharmaceuticals Company Bribed Doctors

A whistleblower lawsuit accused a US pharmaceuticals giant of lavishly bribing doctors and their staff to increase sales of a drug, offering them Starbucks gift cards, free Las Vegas trips and sponsored happy hours to prescribe it even for potentially unsafe uses. The company is Mallinckrodt and the drug is H.P. Some of these uses are “unapproved, unsafe and potentially ineffective,” according …


New Allegations of Sexual Assault Made in Ongoing Lawsuit Against Dartmouth

Two former Dartmouth students have signed on as plaintiffs to an ongoing lawsuit that alleges that for over 16 years College officials ignored evidence of sexual misconduct by three former psychological and brain sciences professors. In an amended version of the original plaintiffs’ complaint filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire, the two former students bring forward additional allegations of sexual assault and harassment, adding to an already significant and graphic list of charges made by seven other women who allege that the three PBS professors turned the department into a “21st century Animal House.” 


HBO Tells Michael Jackson Estate to Beat It in $100M ‘Leaving Neverland’ Lawsuit

The controversial Leaving Neverland made its debut on March 3, but the estate of Michael Jackson and HBO are still fighting over the sex abuse documentary in a $100 million lawsuit. And, put it this way, they didn’t come to dance with the once proclaimed King of Pop’s crew. The matter went over to federal court in early March for jurisdictional reasons just over a week after Leaving Neverland …


GOP Lawsuit Claims Passage of Red Flag Bill Was Unconstitutional

In the upper chamber, Democrats used computers to speed-read the bill in question, which ultimately prompted a lawsuit against Senate President Leroy Garcia. A similar scene played out as the House considered House Bill 1177, the red-flag legislation, on March 4. After Representative Steven Humphrey, a Republican from Severance, requested that the bill be read at length, several House clerks …


CLASS ACTION ALERT: Rosen Law Firm Announces Filing of Securities Class Action Lawsuit Against First Choice Healthcare Solutions, Inc. – FCHS

Rosen Law Firm, P.A. Logo MoreTo join the First Choice class action, go to http://www.rosenlegal.com/cases-register-1544.html or call Phillip Kim, Esq. of Rosen Law Firm toll free at 866-767-3653 or via e-mail at [email protected] or [email protected]. Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative …


Update: Mount Sinai Board Says It Will Launch Probe of Discrimination Claims

Update: Mount Sinai board says it will launch probe of discrimination claims*Update, 23 May, 4:23 p.m.: The co-chairs of the Board of Trustees at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai yesterday told the medical school’s faculty that the board is forming a “special committee to review matters related to the allegations of discrimination,” as well as any other related issues. The faculty …


Inside McClatchy’s ‘Vigorous Defense’ Against Nunes’ ‘Baseless’ Lawsuit

The Fresno Bee endorsed Nunes in several subsequent reelection bids, until the congressman began snubbing the newsroom. It’s been more than a year since Nunes has communicated with the Bee’s newsroom. It’s not yet clear how much he’s raised since the McClatchy suit was filed. … I’ve had many cases where it was clear that a party filed a lawsuit to achieve other objectives, but this is so …


GlaxoSmithKline Agrees to Pay Out Millions in Diabetes Drug Class Action

The plaintiffs in the case claimed Avandia, which is used to treat Type 2 diabetes, increased the risk of cardiovascular events including heart attacks and congestive heart failure. It took almost a decade for the class-action lawsuit to finally deliver results for the plaintiffs. The company will pay $3,666,666.67 into a fund for people who suffered myocardial infarction, coronary artery …


Sweeping Class-Action Lawsuit Could Force Unions Nationwide to Refund Millions in Fees

“The argument is once something is deemed to be unconstitutional [in the civil context] — agency fees — then they’re deemed to be retroactively unconstitutional. But that decision, he said, should be made free from the external pressures created by mandatory agency fees. AFSCME and other unions, Hughes acknowledged, can be expected to fight the lawsuit “tooth and nail,” given the amount of …