Kentucky wide receiver DeMoreo Ford, right, fails to hang on to the ball in the end zone during a game at Florida in Gainesville, Fla., on Oct. 25, 2008. (Photo: Phil Sandlin, AP) LEXINGTON, Ky. – Former Kentucky, Louisville and Murray State football players have joined a group of class-action lawsuits against their conferences and the NCAA alleging “reckless disregard for the health and safety …
this point, we’ve seen plenty of class-action lawsuits over internet giants pawing through our email to either snoop on us or target us with advertising. For example, Google got sued in 2014 for scanning millions of students’ emails to build up profiles of users’ interests so it could target advertising at them. The search giant was then hit again a few weeks ago over scanning email, …
Twice a year, Y Combinator, a startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California, holds what it calls a Demo Day, which is a showcase of the latest batch of new companies it has nurtured. In the past, those have included Dropbox, Airbnb, and Reddit (as well as a number of companies no one remembers). Last week, at the most recent Demo Day, Eva Shang took to the stage to talk about her …
The latest round of class-action concussion lawsuits against the NCAA and major college football conferences were filed by former college football players from Florida State, Miami, Florida, Mississippi State, Kentucky, Louisville and Murray State. The lawsuits were filed in federal courts …
Maybe the unintentional downside of the internet’s ubiquity is the ability to hear someone else’s song and borrow it for inspiration—only to later face a lawsuit accusing an artist of some degree of theft. Two singers are facing copyright lawsuits: Demi Lovato is being sued by Sleigh Bells for allegedly …
Tracy Rucinski and Tom Hals In a case full of twists, Caesars Entertainment Corp (CZR.O) late on Monday won a two-week extension on a shield from lawsuits worth billions of dollars just days after a different U.S. court allowed those cases to proceed. Investors are suing Caesars for reneging on its guaranty of bonds issued by its operating unit, Caesars Entertainment Operating Co Inc, or CEOC, …
The Canadian government has as many as 45,000 legal claims — big and small — pending against it, representing a potential liability that stretches into the “hundreds of billions of dollars,” CBC News has learned. The breadth and potential depth of the litigation quagmire was the driving force behind the Trudeau government’s recent decision to establish a full cabinet committee to track the …
General Mills’ granola bar company is under fire from consumers. (Nature Valley) Whole grain oats, peanuts and…pesticide? On Wednesday, three lawsuits were filed against General Mills’ granola bar purveyor Nature Valley.
A US district judge has rejected a proposed $100 million settlement in a pair of class action lawsuits filed in California and Massachusetts, saying the proposed settlement was neither fair nor adequate. “The settlement, mutually agreed by both sides, was fair and reasonable,” said Uber in a statement. “We’re disappointed in this decision and are taking a look at our options.”
“This case is the extraordinarily rare one in which Class Counsel both detected the wrong-doing and then single-handedly enforced the law,” said a leading national expert on class action law. Retained by class counsel to provide his opinion to the Court on counsel’s request for attorneys’ fees, he noted that …