Two women who were injured in the car attack in Charlottesville Saturday have filed a $3 million lawsuit against the alleged driver of the car as well as the man who organized the white nationalist rally. Named in the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in Charlottesville, is James Alex Fields, Jr., the 20-year-old Ohio resident who is charged with second-degree murder, three counts of malicious …
Only seven people have opted out of a proposed $2.375-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit involving diluted chemotherapy treatment. Wednesday was the deadline for more than 1,200 patients named in the class action to opt out of the proposed settlement. Lawyer Harvey Strosberg of Stutts Strosberg LLP, the co-counsel in the lawsuit, says the majority of the patients are unopposed.
A new lawsuit by the New York Civil Liberties Union and Legal Services of Central New York is alleging that the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office has been locking up juveniles in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day, and sexually harassing and abusing the children, some of whom are mentally ill. “Any time you send a child to solitary confinement, you risk damaging them permanently,” …
Hooters responded Friday to a lawsuit filed over a 2014 fatal DUI crash outside of Anderson University. Hooters corporate offices and the local affiliated restaurant were named as defendants, along with Anderson County bar The Bench, in a lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of 13-year-old Cheyenne Perkins, who nearly died in the November 2014 wreck. Three others did lose their lives in the crash.
Days after being named in a lawsuit, both Townsquare Media and KLAQ-95.5 FM radio host Buzz Adams responded to the lawsuit, saying that the anti-maternity leave allegations made against …
At Noon on Tuesday, former Penn State safety James Boyd was listed as the lead plaintiff in a concussion/head injury lawsuit filed against his former university, the Big Ten, and the NCAA, according to court documents obtained by the Centre Daily Times. Now, a spokesperson for the law firm that filed the claims tells the CDT that is no longer the case. Boyd withdrew his name as the lead named …
Four Van Buren Public Schools teachers are suing the district, saying they were falsely accused of cheating on a state exam and their rights were violated when they were removed from the classroom and placed on paid administrative leave. The four teachers — Pamela Bradley, Michelle Komaromi, Brent Held and Rebecca …
Last March, the United States Supreme Court held that a putative class action is not mooted when a defendant offers the named plaintiff complete relief but the plaintiff does not accept the offer. Campbell-Ewald Company v. Gomez, 136 S. Ct. 663 (2016). That decision left open the question of whether a settlement offer—coupled with an actual tender of complete relief—would …