Conservative talk show host Tomi Lahren has agreed to a settlement that ends her lawsuit against Glenn Beck and his online platform, The Blaze. The lawsuit filed in Dallas, Texas, had alleged wrongful termination. Lahren was ousted from her program after she said she was in favor of abortion rights while appearing on ABC’s “The View” on March 17.
If you bought milk — or any dairy products in Wisconsin over the last 14 years you could be owed a refund. Wisconsin is one of 15 states involved in a class action lawsuit against milk producers. The $52 million settlement accuses dairy farmers of price-fixing.
Back in April, we wrote about an interesting lawsuit filed over excessive fees for PACER, the federal court system’s electronic records system. If you’re not a lawyer or journalist, and have never used PACER, it is difficult to put into words what a ridiculous and outdated system it is. Not only does it look like it was designed and built in 1998, the court system leverages ridiculous fees for …
Perri “Pebbles” Reid is proceeding with her $40 million lawsuit against Viacom over her depiction in the 2013 biopic, CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story. Reid says that Viacom defamed her in the film. Viacom filed a motion last year, saying that Reid had no case but a judge ruled against it last Thursday.
Helen Christophi, Courthouse News Service SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine breathed new life into its lawsuit accusing the government of downplaying the risks of high cholesterol from eating eggs, even as a federal magistrate indicated she would toss it. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said at a hearing on Thursday that she was prepared to dismiss the …
An atheist group and a Tennessee sheriff have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over the latter’s Easter-themed message on Facebook this March, the Cleveland [Tenn.] Banner reported on Friday. The plaintiffs will be paid $15,000 in damages and their attorneys will recoup $26,000 in legal fees, paid out by a lawsuit-insurance fund paid into by local taxpayers, the newspaper noted. The …
An area resident and American Atheists have filed a lawsuit alleging that Bradley County Sheriff Eric Watson is violating the First Amendment by proselytizing and censoring on the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page. Officials filed the suit Monday in federal District Court in Eastern Tennessee in an effort to “stop the sheriff’s policy of censoring comments that are negative or at …
Suit claims Pacer is overcharging for docket reports because of counting error Posted Jan 11, 2016 11:28 am CST A would-be class-action suit filed in federal court in Tacoma, Washington, late last month claims Pacer is overcharging for some docket reports. The suit filed by Bryndon Fisher alleges that the systemic error overcharges users by overcounting bytes on longer docket page captions, …
Suit claims Pacer is overcharging for docket reports because of counting error Posted Jan 11, 2016 11:28 am CST A would-be class-action suit filed in federal court in Tacoma, Washington, late last month claims Pacer is overcharging for some docket reports. The suit filed by Bryndon Fisher alleges that the systemic error overcharges users by overcounting bytes on longer docket page captions, …