A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing BlackBerry Ltd of fraudulently inflating its stock price by painting an upbeat picture of the prospects for its BlackBerry Z10 smartphone line that was misleading. While the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said the lawsuit failed to state a plausible claim, it ordered a lower-court judge to reconsider …
Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa have been slapped with a class-action lawsuit by 17 people who were recently injured at the duo’s “The High Road” show earlier this month. If you recall, over 40 people fell onto the concrete when a front row railing collapsed at the show in Camden, N.J. The Camden County Police Department said that 15 people were treated at a nearby hospital for broken bones and …
Javon Marshall — a former college athlete spearheading a putative class action against several broadcasters for uncompensated use of his likeness — has just seen the Sixth Circuit Appeals Court send him (and everyone “similarly situated”) back home without a parting gift. Marshall — like many others who believe the mere existence of intellectual property protections entitles them to a …
Attorneys representing plaintiffs in a shareholder class action against health care company Castlight Health fully expect those allegedly wronged to accept a settlement. Details of the settlement against the San Francisco-headquartered company have been revealed, and it includes Castlight paying aggrieved share buyers $9.5 million. Castlight, a health information cloud-based …
Hach Rose Schirripa & Cheverie, LLP filed a consumer class action lawsuit against Belle Tire Distributors, Inc. d/b/a Belle Tire and certain related entities in Michigan State Circuit Court, Wayne County (No. 16-009952-CZ) on behalf all persons who were induced to purchase and replace undamaged tires at Belle Tire service locations during the …
A federal judge on Friday dismissed the NCAA from a lawsuit that had been filed against the association and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in connection with the academic scandal involving Tar Heels athletes. The case against the university remains in place, pending a jurisdictional …
A federal judge has dismissed a $750 million class-action lawsuit alleging the Army’s reckless handling of chemical and biological toxins caused death and illness among people living near Fort Detrick in Frederick. The Frederick News-Post (http://bit.ly/2buYcdz ) reports that U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake filed the dismissal notice Thursday in Baltimore.
A Michigan couple’s class-action lawsuit against Pokemon Go alleges the popular augmented reality game is ruining a local public park. Scott and Jayme Dodich of St. Clair Shores said in their class-action suit, filed last week in northern California, that the game developed by San Francisco-based Niantic has been drawing an unusual number of visitors to …
The National Labor Relations Board has given unions and plaintiff attorneys a cache of weapons to target businesses. Now they’ve been handed a “two-barreled joint employer shotgun,” as plaintiff attorney Michael Rubin crowed about the certification of his class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s. Federal Judge James Donato recently allowed four plaintiffs to represent 500 McDonald’s franchise …
About 150 groups from around the country that provide services to American Indian farmers and ranchers have applied to receive grant money from a $38 million one-time fund set up as part of the federal government’s loan discrimination settlement with Native Americans. An advisory committee will whittle down the proposals and make a recommendation to a federal judge by Oct. …