When someone you don’t know suddenly sends you a check for nearly a hundred dollars – it can pay to be suspicious. But in this case, the checks are real. They’re settlement checks from a class action lawsuit over illegal robocalls.
“Ultimately the Lehtinens, without admitting liability, agreed to pay $750,000, which covers everything we believed they owed their employees going back two full years, plus an additional amount paid as liquidated damages, plus attorney fees,” said Tim Louris, a lawyer representing the employees from Minneapolis firm Miller O’Brien Jensen. A federal judge in Minneapolis approved the payment on …
Despite whites making up just under 70 percent of Alabama’s population, they hold 100 percent of the state’s civil and criminal appellate courts. In addition, Alabama’s Supreme Court has only had three African-Americans on its bench in the past 36 years, according to a lawsuit from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Many law firms have joined the NAACP’s …
A voting rights lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks to do away with the at-large elections of judges who sit on Alabama’s three appellate courts, including the Alabama Supreme Court. The at-large election system has been racially discriminatory towards African Americans, who make up more than a quarter of the state’s population, according to the lawsuit that suggests election by single-member …
The estate of a late Ottawa man has launched a $2-million lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Ottawa for sexual abuse he allegedly suffered as a child in the 1960s. The unusual statement of claim was filed last month on behalf of the man, whom the Citizen will identify only as John Doe. He died at the age of 63 in November 2014.
A federal lawsuit filed last week accuses Gadsden’s municipal court judge and prosecutor of violating the constitutional rights of one woman by charging unlawful fees and preventing an open court. Alexander City attorney Eric Hutchins filed the lawsuit on behalf of Lasheta McGruder, who appeared in court on a tampering with evidence charge. According to the suit, filed Sept. 1, McGruder was …
It’s hard to forget the USA Freedom Kids who performed a memorable skit that was mesmerizing and more than a little strange. The girls went viral, with the link below accumulating more than six million views. Apparently the Trump campaign was supposed to reimburse the kid’s group for their travel and other associated fees, but the Trump camp backed out, stiffing the girls and their parents.
Fraud allegations won’t stop the Democratic Party primaries from rolling on in the Bronx — at least for now. A group of activists who sued the Bronx Democratic Party — claiming they were used as straw candidates for political posts — have not shown they will suffer enough “irreparable harm” to justify halting next week’s elections, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. But Judge Kimba Wood said in …
An elderly couple has been reunited in a nursing care home — if only temporarily. In a joint statement issued Tuesday by the state and counsel for plaintiffs Noboru and Elaine Kawamoto, the couple are back to living together “pending determination by the Court of the constitutionality of certain Hawaii state statutes and …
Standard Chartered and Castex declined to comment on the
lawsuit or accusations of share price manipulation. In a
statement the Bombay Stock Exchange has said that it found no
evidence of wrongdoing. The court will need to answer two key questions, according
to East.