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Lawsuits Sep 22, 2019

Donald Trump Desperate to Get Out of Testifying in New York Lawsuit After Judge’s Order, ‘Politico’ Reports

Donald Trump’s lawyers are said to be panicking over a judge’s order that compels Trump to give sworn testimony in a 2015 New York lawsuit. The judge, Bronx Supreme Court Justice Doris Gonzalez, swatted aside an attempt by Trump to quash a subpoena demanding his testimony. Now, Politico reported on Sunday, Trump and his lawyers are scrambling to figure out a way to defy the judge’s order and …

News Jan 25, 2017

Trump’s New Adviser Hired White Men to Attack Blacks Inside His Clubs

Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images Donald Trump’s newest staff pick is a lot like the rest of them. According to news reports and lawsuits, Reed Cordish, Trump’s incoming White House adviser, hired white men to start trouble with black patrons of his family’s properties so that they could kick them out. According to a scathing report in the Daily Beast , Cordish, who was picked to be an assistant …

News Oct 14, 2016

Mylan’s Next Problem? A Shareholder Suit Demanding Damages

When Mylan ( $MYL ) quickly settled its Medicaid allegations a week ago with a $465 million payment, analysts and politicians predicted the company’s EpiPen trouble would be far from over. Now, that’s ringing true as the pharma faces a shareholder lawsuit pressing for damages from related share price drops. Bernstein Liebhard announced a class action suit claiming securities violations at Mylan …

Lawsuits Sep 19, 2016

Man Sues Samsung After Galaxy Note 7 Burns a Hole Through His Pants

The Galaxy Note 7 has been nothing short of an unmitigated disaster for Samsung. Following a seemingly endless number of reports involving Note 7 devices catching fire or even exploding, Samsung took an unprecedented step of issuing a global recall for its flagship device earlier this month. An official Note 7 recall program through the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was initiated …

Lawsuits Sep 18, 2016

Media Groups File Lawsuit Against FBI to Learn How to Hack iPhones

The Associated Press, Gannett, and Vice Media LLC filed a joint lawsuit Friday seeking information about how the FBI unlocked the iPhone of mass-shooter Syed Rizwan Farook earlier this year, according to a report from the Associated Press. Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people and wounded 22 others in a terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, …

Legal News Aug 31, 2016

Metro Loses Open Records Lawsuit

Judge rules city violated ‘prompt’ statute in Public Records Act In a significant victory for open records proponents across the state, Metro Nashville has lost a lawsuit over the amount of time its police department takes to respond to and fulfill open records requests. The Tennessee Public Records Act states, “The custodian of a public …

News Aug 31, 2016

Singers Racking Up Lawsuits Like Hit Records

Maybe the unintentional downside of the internet’s ubiquity is the ability to hear someone else’s song and borrow it for inspiration—only to later face a lawsuit accusing an artist of some degree of theft. Two singers are facing copyright lawsuits: Demi Lovato is being sued by Sleigh Bells for allegedly …

News Aug 29, 2016

Catholic School Staffer Fired for Same-Sex Marriage Goes to Court

In what’s become a familiar story, a Catholic school staff member has been fired for entering into a same-sex marriage — and is fighting back with a lawsuit. Kate Drumgoole was dean of guidance and girls’ basketball coach at Paramus Catholic High School, her alma mater, in New Jersey for several years until she was fired in January, reports New Jersey paper The Record. She had married her …

Settlements Aug 24, 2016

Tribunal Awards Rusoro More Than $1 Billion in Venezuelan Lawsuit

Canadian gold miner Rusoro Mining Ltd. (TSXV: RML) has been awarded more than $1 billion after a World Bank tribunal said Venezuela unlawfully seized the company’s gold mine, according to news reports and a news release from Rusoro. The company says it was awarded damages of $967.77 million plus interest, taking the total above $1.2 billion. Rusoro says it filed an arbitration request in July …

Lawsuits Aug 15, 2016

Lawsuit: Kansas “Encouraged” Rowers Raped by Football Player to Cheer at Games

Kansas is currently being sued by two former rowers who say they were raped by the same football player. The player was investigated and expelled, but in their lawsuits both women say the university still violated Title IX in many ways. They claim that they suffered retaliation from the rowing coaches after reporting what happened; that Kansas ignored a history of sexual assault reports from …