Legal

[Opinion] When Storm-Chasing Lawyers Win, Texans Lose

Lawyer-driven hail litigation is the worst lawsuit abuse in Texas today. The Texas Legislature must stop this lawsuit abuse while protecting the right of every Texas consumer to sue their insurance company if it acts unfairly or in bad faith. For the last five years, storm-chasing lawyers have descended upon neighborhoods from the Rio Grande to the Red River, unleashing case …


Apple Inc. Confirms It’s Stopping Payments to Qualcomm Amid Lawsuit

The legal battle between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) continues to heat up, with Apple officially confirming it will no longer pay royalties to the chipmaker until their lawsuit is settled. MacRumors has some notes on the ongoing legal battle: The legal dispute between the two companies follows a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission, stating that Qualcomm …


Diddy Responds to Discrimination Lawsuit Against His TV Network

The rapper and mogul’s Revolt cable network is at the centre of legal action from a group of former employees Diddy has responded to a racial discrimination lawsuit that has been brought against his television network, Revolt. The cable network are being sued by a group of former employees – who all served on the production staff of the televised version of Revolt’s popular radio show The …


Dozens Stranded on Highway 13 Attend Class-Action Lawsuit Session

Ten days after the Highway 13 debacle that left hundreds of people stranded on Highway 13, many of those who were trapped met to learn about their legal options. Marlene Berman is the lead plaintiff in a request for a class-action lawsuit filed by Joey Zukran. At least one other request has been filed, and if the cases are allowed to go ahead a judge will have to decide which legal team will be …


Lawsuit Over Tax Return Would Subject Trump to Deposition, Discovery, Experts Say

Media law experts say Rachel Maddow and David Cay Johnston have little to fear from reports that President Donald Trump is considering legal action over their reporting on his 2005 tax return this week. Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of a 2016 book on Trump, said the two-page document was mailed to his home anonymously. He currently runs DCReport, a news site devoted to the impact …


House Passes Bill That May Lower Food Claim Class Action Suits

The House of Representatives has approved a bill raising the threshold for individuals or groups to bring legal claims against companies in consumer disputes, employment discrimination cases, and other areas. The bill would require individuals seeking to form a legal class to show that each suffered the same type and magnitude of personal injury or economic loss as the group’s leader. …


Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Gov. Scott to Allow Former Felons to Vote

According to the Fair Elections Legal Network they have filed a class action lawsuit has been filed against Governor Scott and the Clemency Board to allow former felons to vote. The Fair Elections Legal Network and the law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLCC have filed the lawsuit on behalf of seven former felons, according to a press release the organizations sent out. According to this …


GOP Pushes Bill Inhibiting Americans From Filing Class-Action Lawsuits Against Large Corporations

In recent years, companies have increasingly relied on legal fine print to avoid the lawsuits, inserting language into contracts requiring disputes to be settled by private arbitrators, not the courts. In the final years of the Obama administration, regulators moved to limit those arbitration clauses, proposing rules that ban them from student loan agreements and some financial services. “If …