Georgia’s voter registration process violates the Voting Rights Act and has prevented tens of thousands of residents, mostly minorities, from registering to vote, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. Under a policy implemented in 2010, people aren’t added to the voter rolls if identifying information on their applications doesn’t exactly match information in databases …
Satellite television company Dish Network has agreed to pay $1.75 million to settle a class action lawsuit over alleged violations of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) for not providing proper consent and disclosure forms needed to conduct background checks for employment purposes, according to a report on the TopClassActions.com website. Top Class Actions reports Plaintiff Scott …
A Muscle Milk class action lawsuit, Clay et al. v. CytoSport Inc., was filed in January 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The plaintiffs in that case have now asked the court to certify four different classes; a nationwide class, and a class …
Virginia gun rights activists have filed a $12 million defamation lawsuit against Katie Couric and other makers of a documentary over an edit they say misrepresented …
The widow of a Lakewood police officer killed by friendly fire in the line of duty has dropped a federal lawsuit against the city as part of an agreement to collect $3.5 million in settlement claims. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Denver by Tamara Davies, widow of slain Officer James Davies, was dismissed with prejudice …
A father and son who own hundreds of rental properties across Dallas have been accused in a lawsuit of keeping tenants in “unspeakably squalid conditions” while requiring them to pay for pest control. In a complaint filed last week, tenants Joanna Pena and Sergio Rendon also claim that Hanna Khraish, his son Khraish H. Khraish and their company, HMK Ltd., are breaking state law by using a …
Two women are suing four Hazel Park officers after they were allegedly forced to flash their breasts at the officers during a traffic stop earlier this summer, a federal lawsuit contends. But the local police chief says the allegations, while extremely serious, are just that — allegations. “It’s important for everyone to realize that for $75 and an attorney, anyone can file a federal lawsuit,” …
A former academic administrator at the ITT Technical Institute in Springfield has joined the growing number of former employees and students filing suit after the abrupt shutdown last week of the national for-profit college. Ruby Blackwell was an academic dean at the Springfield school, located inside White Oaks Mall. St. Louis attorney Brandon Wise, who is representing Blackwell, said Monday …
Among continued struggles with algae in the Chesapeake Bay, regulators are cracking down on nutrient contributors. State Attorney General Brian Frosh and Maryland Secretary of the Environment Ben Grumbles announced late last month that the owners of two Maryland power plants in the Washington suburbs would have to pay $1 million to settle a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit, according to The …
A federal lawsuit could cause some problems for people looking to take advantage of the state’s new election day voter registration rules. The new rules require counties and major cities to offer same-day …