Volkswagen AG, in another step to move past its costly diesel emissions cheating scandal, has agreed to pay $175 million to US lawyers suing the German automaker on behalf of the owners of 475,000 polluting vehicles, two people briefed on the agreement said on …
Lawyers for a Concord prep school and the family of a sexual assault victim met Wednesday to schedule the next steps in an ongoing lawsuit. According to court paperwork, the parents of the assault victim are seeking damages in excess of $75,000, claiming that St. Paul’s School was negligent. Wednesday’s hearing was held behind closed doors, and lawyers said the next step in the case is …
Today I attempt to destroy the character and chances of a certain presidential candidate. This candidate is a TV star. He’s abrupt and a social climber.
Reading the lawsuit makes your head throb. You don’t ache for the plaintiff, known forevermore as “falsely accused I-10 Freeway Shooter Leslie Merritt Jr.” Instead, you hurt for us, the taxpayers. That’s because someday soon the human wallets who comprise Arizona and Maricopa County’s taxpaying citizenry surely will pay Merritt and his cartel of fancy ambulance chasers a massive jackpot.
North Carolina’s governor is dropping a lawsuit defending a law limiting LGBT protections as he pursues similar arguments in a separate case. Gov. Pat McCrory’s lawyers filed notice Friday that they’re voluntarily dismissing the lawsuit filed in May in a Raleigh federal court.
Lawyers for Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC said a federal judge ignored his own deadline by certifying a class-action lawsuit tied to a bribery probe on Wednesday without giving the largest publicly traded U.S. hedge fund company a chance to object. U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan said Och-Ziff shareholders from February …
A federal appeals court on Thursday cast doubt on the legitimacy of a settlement resolving claims that Subway tricked customers by selling “Footlong” subs that were less than a foot long. A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago heard arguments on a challenge by prominent class-action critic Ted Frank, who said the settlement gave too much money to lawyers and no …
While initially calling out 16 lawyers for possible sanctions on both sides of a class action settlement, a federal judge has ordered five of those attorneys to be sanctioned. The five lawyers that were reprimanded are D. Matt Keil, John C Goodson, Jason Earnest Roselius, Martin Weber Jr. and Richard E. Norman.
Unimpressed with the new Golden State Warriors roster? Shh ⌠donât say it out loud. The team may be listening.
A Nashville law firm hired to defend the University of Tennessee against claims the university mishandles sexual assault cases — especially those …