The mental capacity of Sumner Redstone is at the center of yet another lawsuit, this one filed by Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman against Shari Redstone, the billionaire businessman’s daughter. Dauman and longtime Viacom director George Abrams filed a legal complaint in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Probate and Family Court accusing Shari of taking advantage of her 92-year-old father’s mental …
The victim at the center of a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Virginia Wesleyan College took to the stand Monday describing what she called five hours of brutal rape. The victim, known as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, is suing the school for negligence, and is blaming them for creating an environment that made it easy for sexual assaults. The …
A class-action lawsuit against Facebook with major ramifications for privacy in Internet communications moved one step closer to trial, Courthouse News Service reports. The case, which claims Facebook illegally mines private messages for advertising, would be the first to claim users have property rights in their Facebook messages. Chief U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton partially certified …
A Massachusetts judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed against the state over concerns regarding treatment at Bridgewater State Hospital may move forward. The suit alleges that state officials discriminate against the most severely mentally ill men by sending them to a facility run by the Department of Correction, not the Department of Mental Health. Attorney General Maura Healy argued that the …
A trial begins Monday in a hazing lawsuit that a former Bowie State University student filed against Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. The former student, Kevin Hayes, filed the lawsuit in 2014, saying the fraternity should have made sure its chapters and members followed its anti-hazing rules. The $3 million lawsuit claims Hayes was beaten, body-slammed and spanked with a wooden paddle on a daily …
A Columbia bar has been accused of serving so much alcohol to one of its underage patrons that he became extremely intoxicated and crashed his motorcycle, killing a 19-year-old woman who was riding with him. The State of Columbia reported Saturday that the father of crash victim Caitlin Clark has filed a lawsuit against the Tin Roof bar. The …
Regina Honts filed the lawsuit in 2013 against HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Gadsden, stating that her mother, Doris Green, 79 years old, had died from an allergic reaction to an opiate administered by hospital staff, even though there were “clear warnings” she was allergic to such drugs when she was admitted. Doris Green was admitted to HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Gadsden …
Duracell has failed in its effort to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it violated Energizer Holdings Inc’s trademark rights by using a pink bunny on battery packages that closely resembled the sunglass-clad, drum-beating Energizer Bunny. In a decision last week, U.S. …
Parents from around Texas including one from the Orangefield School District have filed a lawsuit in Austin looking to throw out the results of this year’s STAAR test scores. The lawsuit claims the test is too long and has caused harm to thousands of students, teachers, and schools in the state of Texas. Jennifer Rumsey has been a teacher in the Orangefield School District for over 17 years and …
Those assurances came at a time when ManorCare was aware of the more than $6 billion in false claims billed by the company, Legal NewsLine reported. That billing fraud resulted in a series of whistleblower allegations against the provider, consolidated into one suit by the Department of Justice last year. News of the fraud resulted in a decline of HCP stock, which subsequently hurt investors, …