Residents of the building have filed a lawsuit over a fire in West Oakland that left four people dead. Candice Nguyen reports. Survivors of a deadly fire that tore through a West Oakland halfway house last month sued their former landlord and the nonprofits that acted as master tenants Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court, saying their slum-like housing conditions were illegal and led to …
A Middle Island pet rescue under investigation by the state attorney general’s office was hit with a class-action lawsuit Monday claiming that sick dogs are being put up for adoption and fake pet medications are being distributed. Miller Place attorney Vesselin Mitev said in a telephone interview that he filed the suit against Friends of Freddie Pet Rescue in Suffolk County Supreme Court Monday …
Mylan CEO Heather Bresch holds up an EpiPen while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, before the House Oversight Committee hearing on EpiPen price increases. AP Christina Kollmeyer’s son has a allergy that requires him to carry an EpiPen, the emergency auto-injecting devices available that can be used to treat severe allergic reactions. When Kollmeyer, who has …
Takata Corp.’s chief financial officer Yoichiro Nomura leaves federal court in Detroit on Monday. Japanese auto parts maker Takata Corp. pleaded guilty to fraud Monday and agreed to pay $1 billion in penalties for concealing an air bag defect blamed for at least 16 deaths, most of them in the U.S.(Photo: Paul Sancya / AP) 11 CONNECTTWEET2 LINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE The Takata Corp. pleaded guilty …
Tesla and SpaceX — two companies owned by Elon Musk — have signed on to a legal brief in support of a lawsuit against President Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugees. Musk has been on the defensive for the past week for remaining a member of the president’s advisory councils in the wake …
Four electronics giants will pay $124.5 million in an antitrust class action to indirect purchasers of optical disk drives, in a settlement approved Monday by a federal judge. Hitachi-LG Data Storage will pay $73 million; Sony will pay $28.5 million; Panasonic $16.5 million; and NEC $6.5 million. U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg’s final approval on Monday …
Zillow announced Monday it had agreed to pay $6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by an Irvine employee accusing the firm of failing to pay overtime and pressuring employees to skip meal and rest breaks. The Seattle-based online real estate company had announced the settlement in May, but hadn’t disclosed the terms until Monday. The settlement had been contingent on a U.S. Labor …
The defendants claim they have injuries that range from severe eye injuries, to head lacerations that needed more than a dozen staples to close up and broken bones from rubber bullets and other devices fired by law enforcement. Last week we told you about Sophia Wilansky who was severely injured by what she calls a concussion grenade that blew apart her forearm and hand. She was flown from …
The state’s online voter registration system crashed on Monday, preventing some Virginians from signing up in time for the November 8th election. Now, voting rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit to force the state to extend the deadline. It’s impossible to know how many people were affected, but the groups that filed the federal lawsuit believe there could be …
Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer on Monday set a March 27 trial date for a civil lawsuit in which a Lincoln County teenager and her family accused St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson of knowing a priest was a danger to children before the cleric was charged with molesting the teen in 2012. The lawsuit was filed the following year in Lincoln County by the girl’s parents against Carlson and …