An Illinois trio has filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court against a Plains All American Pipeline for a 2015 oil spill that contaminated land near HIghalnd Ill. Kevin Nodine, Cheryl Morr and David Medlock filed the lawsuit on Feb. 15 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois through The Driscoll Firm in St. Louis. The lawsuit alleges violation of the Oil …
DoorDash, the on-demand food delivery service and main competitor to GrubHub (NYSE:GRUB), has come to an agreement in a class-action lawsuit, reports TechCrunch. The lawsuit states that the company misclassified its employees as independent contractors. The company has agreed to pay $5 million to settle the case.
Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces that it has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of Alliance MMA, Inc. securities (AMMA) pursuant and/or traceable to Alliance MMA’s initial public offering on or about October 6, 2016. The lawsuit seeks to recover damages for Alliance MMA investors under the federal securities laws. To join …
A lawsuit has been filed alleging New Mexico has a policy of penalizing public school teachers in their evaluations if they take more than six days of sick time over the course of the school year, even if their contracts allow for more. The Albuquerque Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2pa1k8F) the lawsuit was filed March 30 on behalf of Logan Municipal Schools teacher …
A janitorial airline contractor at Los Angeles International Airport and more than a dozen of its employees have settled a case alleging their supervisor improperly prohibited them from speaking Spanish during work hours and breaks. Attorneys for lead plaintiff Irma Espinoza and the other Gate Gourmet workers filed a notice of dismissal of the lawsuit last week in Los Angeles Superior Court and …
Controversial new rules that effectively ban homesharing services in Miami are being challenged in court by Airbnb and five city residents who say their fundamental rights have been violated. The lawsuit, filed Friday, is a response to Miami’s crackdown on Airbnb and the city’s decision to target enforcement actions against residents who spoke out against the new rules at a public hearing last …
A $10 million wrongful death lawsuit was filed on behalf of the family of a 3-year-old girl who was killed at a Head Start program when she was struck by a table that folded into a gymnasium wall. The Archdiocese of Detroit, Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency and St. Albert the Great Church in Dearborn Heights are named in the civil suit. Lilliana Kerr was …
Three more La Vernia High School students were arrested this week in connection with a hazing case that has ripped through the small town 30 minutes southeast of San Antonio. The arrests were made at the school and bring the total number of arrests in the case to 13. The arrests are part of an ongoing investigation into alleged sexual assaults dating back to 2014.
An explosive high-school sexual assault scandal rocking the small town of La Vernia, Texas, widened Tuesday, with the arrest of three additional students and the filing of a federal lawsuit alleging school officials knew about criminal hazing going on in the athletic program and failed to protect student victims. Colton Weidner, Christian “Brock” Roberts, and John Rutkowski, all 18 and members …
The Trump administration has not yet released concrete details to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but it already faces the first of what could be a litany of lawsuits against the president’s signature proposal. The Center for Biological Diversity, a Tucson-based conservation group, and U.S. Congressman Raul Grijalva, who represents a broad swath of the Arizona border, filed the suit on Wednesday in a Tucson federal court targeting the environmental and fiscal impact of building a nearly 2,000-mile border wall. …