On June 21, a putative class action lawsuit was filed against Universal Music Group on behalf of artists whose master recordings are believed to have been destroyed in a 2008 fire on the Universal Studios backlot where they were stored. But most recording contracts don’t explicitly mention that responsibility, and there’s a legal distinction between the physical recordings and the intellectual …
A federal lawsuit claims a bank and property management companies are making decisions along racial lines that negatively impact neighborhoods across Kansas City. A watchdog group called the National Fair Housing Alliance filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank, Ocwen Financial and Altisource for discrimination.
A federal judge ruled Oct. 4 that sweeps of homeless people and their belongings may continue as a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the city of Seattle’s rules regarding the practice moves through the court. Judge Ricardo Martinez denied motions filed by attorneys representing the plaintiffs — four homeless individuals impacted by sweeps, the Real Change Homeless Empowerment …
An email ending up in a spam folder may cost Emerald Coast Utilities Authority ratepayers up to an additional $400,000 in an eminent domain lawsuit. The Lewis Bear Co. filed a …
Lawyer-driven hail litigation is the worst lawsuit abuse in Texas today. The Texas Legislature must stop this lawsuit abuse while protecting the right of every Texas consumer to sue their insurance company if it acts unfairly or in bad faith. For the last five years, storm-chasing lawyers have descended upon neighborhoods from the Rio Grande to the Red River, unleashing case …
A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed on behalf of seven individual plaintiffs and four gun rights groups challenging California’s recently-enacted large capacity magazine ban/confiscation scheme. Prior to the passage of SB 1446 last year and voter approval of Prop. 63 in November, Californians could possess large capacity magazines if they owned them before January 1, 2000, when the …
A Beijing court has overturned a ruling that Apple’s iPhone 6 violated a Chinese manufacturer’s patent which saw the US tech giant ordered to cease selling the smartphone in China. In May last year the Beijing intellectual property bureau had ruled that Apple violated design patents of Chinese maker Shenzhen Baili with its iPhone6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and would be barred from selling those …
Nicole Curtis is firing back following news she is being sued by the city of Minneapolis over a house she purchased for $2. The “Rehab Addict” star took to Facebook to say she has been “threatened and harassed” over her work in Minneapolis. “I fight for the underdog,” Curtis wrote Thursday night.
Uncertainty now surrounds two upscale subdivisions in Lakeland following the filing of a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of people who own property or live in the Oakbridge and Grasslands subdivisions in Lakeland. Grasslands is a premier golf community with upscale housing.
A firm poised to purchase the vacant Novartis campus for $18 million has filed a lawsuit claiming the deal has been stymied by pharmaceutical company’s refusal to allow aggressive environmental testing. A lawsuit filed Feb. 10 in state Supreme Court in New City by RS Old Mill LLC is …