Lawsuit

DeVry Will Refund $100 Million to Students to Settle FTC Lawsuit

DeVry University will pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged its ads misled prospective students, the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday. The money will go back to tens of thousands of students that attended DeVry between 2008 and 2015. Some will be reimbursed with cash and others will receive debt relief.


Maine Joins Antitrust Lawsuit Against Generic Drugmakers

Maine is among 20 states suing six generic drug-makers with a claim that the companies artificially inflated prices for an antibiotic and an oral diabetes medication. Attorney General Janet Mills says the federal lawsuit accuses the companies of manipulating prices and reducing competition for a pair of drugs that many state residents buy as lower-cost generics. She accuses the …


Multistate Lawsuit Alleges Massive Conspiracy by National Pharmaceutical Companies

Kentucky has joined a multistate lawsuit alleging that a large group of pharmaceutical companies have monopolized generic drugs. Attorney General Andy Beshear called the move “straightforward and sinister.” The lawsuit alleges widespread collusion among the pharmaceutical companies to reduce competition and increase the price of generic drugs. The states allege the …


Benghazi Committee Settles Lawsuit From Ex-Investigator Who Alleged Wrongdoing

The House Select Committee on Benghazi has settled a lawsuit brought by a former staffer who alleged that he was fired in part because he was unwilling to focus solely on the State Department and Hillary Clinton in order to understand the attacks, attorneys for the staffer said. The settlement ends a messy dispute that raised questions about whether the committee — formed to investigate the 2012 attacks that killed four Americans at U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya — was trying to achieve partisan goals. The staffer, Bradley Podliska, alleged in court …



Apple Will Pay Out $2 Million to California Retail Employees

A long-running class action lawsuit between Apple and employees of its retail stores in California came to a quick conclusion today. The lawsuit was originally filed in 2011 by four former employees but expanded in 2014 to include around 20,000 Apple retail employees in California. The suit alleged that Apple failed to give employees adequate breaks, failed to pay wages in a timely manner after …



Exxon Faces Anti-Gay Bias Lawsuit as Trump Taps CEO for State

The Illinois Department of Human Rights has found “substantial evidence” of anti-gay discrimination at ExxonMobil. (Photo of Exxon sign by Ildar Sagdejev, photo of Mobil sign by Terence Ong; courtesy Wikimedia Commons). President-elect Donald Trump has tapped for secretary of state Rex Tillerson, the CEO of ExxonMobil, a company that faces a lawsuit accusing it of anti-gay discrimination in its …


Judge Certifies $600M Lawsuit for Mentally Ill Inmates Allegedly Mistreated

The decision opens door for “tens of thousands” of federal inmates to get paid for alleged mistreatment Rioux added that segregation — the term the government uses for solitary confinement — is a legally available tool that is used to “manage risk,” either to the inmate or staff, and is not a punitive measure. She said there are ongoing reviews of an inmate’s placement in solitary confinement, …