The Battle of the Bibs continues. Mike Hicks and 167 other professional caddies have appealed U.S. District Judge Vince Girdhari Chhabria’s decision to dismiss their $50 million class-action lawsuit against the PGA Tour. The caddies raised contract, antitrust and intellectual property claims against the Tour when they filed suit in February 2015, alleging that the Tour had reduced them to …
Charlottesville’s Legal Aid Justice Center is challenging a system that they say is punishing the poor. It’s filed a class action lawsuit in federal court, asserting that Virginia is crippling hundreds of thousands of low-income residents by suspending their driver’s licenses for failure to pay court costs and fines. Legal Aid says our current approach is simply unconstitutional.
Second Valve lawsuit includes CSGOLotto’s Martin and Cassell as defendants Posted By: Peter Parrish July 8, 2016 A second class-action lawsuit, filed against Valve in Florida on 6 July, has been updated to include CSGOLotto owners Trevor ‘TmarTn’ Martin and Tom ‘ProSyndicate’ Cassell as defendants. Much like the first lawsuit (brought by Connecticut resident Michael John McLeod in June), this …
SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Today the ACLU of Utah and co-counsel Holland & Hart, LLP, filed a class action lawsuit against the state of Utah for failing to meet its Sixth Amendment obligations under the U.S. Constitution. Copies of the …
The book serves as a valuable tool for both in-house and outside counsels who confront the prospect of litigating class actions in state forums with which they may have little or no experience and must make informed recommendations on removal. Succinct summaries are prepared by litigators from each of the respective states and address changes in rules and statutes as well as significant case …
No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games has revealed a three-year long lawsuit brought by broadcasting giant Sky. The legal dispute, over the use of ‘Sky’ in the game’s name, has only come to light now it has been concluded.
A conservative legal advocacy group is suing Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe over his decision to restore the voting rights of thousands of felons who’ve completed their sentences.
An atheist activist on Tuesday reached a court-approved settlement to drop a lawsuit against a Corpus Christi, Texas, church planning to erect a 230-foot-tall cross. Patrick Greene said in the settlement his legal complaint against Pastor Rick Milby of Abundant Life Fellowship Church was “baseless,” “vexatious” and “without merit.” “We are grateful that Mr. Greene has admitted that his lawsuit …
Last night, Forbes reported out a rumor that has been circulating among media reporters for the last several months: Hulk Hogan’s $140 million lawsuit against Gawker Media was bankrolled by a wealthy benefactor, namely Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. The story, attributed to multiple anonymous sources, broke just hours before Gawker Media was scheduled to appear in a St. Petersburg, …
A day after Gawker founder Nick Denton told the New York Times he had a “personal hunch” that someone linked to Silicon Valley was funding the onslaught of lawsuits against Gawker Media—which resulted in a potentially …