Under pressure of a lawsuit challenging the city’s at-large electoral system , the City Council will soon decide whether to fight the suit in court or relent and change the way West Covina residents vote in city elections. It could also potentially be very expensive. “It is roughly a $4 (million) to $5 million gamble for the city to take,” said attorney James Touchstone, a lawyer …
It’s been five years since a group of residents sued Princeton University over their tax-exempt status and this week, they finally came to a deal. On Friday, the university agreed to make millions of dollars worth of contributions over the next few years to the town of Princeton, to a fund for homeowners in the town and to a corporation that helps provide housing for economically …
A Colorado Springs law firm said it is readying a lawsuit targeting the manufacturers of a firefighting foam believed to have contaminated drinking water in Security, Widefield and Fountain. McDivitt Law Firm said it plans to file a lawsuit this week over the fouling of the Widefield Aquifer, which supplies drinking water to thousands of residents in southern El Paso County. McDivitt is …
A Colorado Springs law firm filed the second lawsuit this week targeting the manufacturers of a firefighting foam believed to have contaminated drinking water in Security, Widefield and Fountain. McDivitt Law Firm capped a monthlong campaign to woo clients by filing a federal lawsuit Thursday seeking class-action status on behalf of thousands of people whose tap water comes from the fouled …
A group of public housing residents are suing a city official for not enforcing building-quality standards at federally subsidized apartments, saying the policy has unfairly left low-income tenants to languish in poor living conditions that are illegal under city law. Landlords are required by the city building code to keep rental properties in decent condition, but the city typically doesn’t …
Fifteen Bethpage residents filed a $500 million class-action lawsuit this week against Northrop Grumman, claiming the defense contractor’s manufacturing operations exposed them to toxic chemicals in air, drinking water and soil. The residents allege that Northrop Grumman did not properly warn the community about contamination generated on a parcel of more than 600 acres in Bethpage, …
On August 5, 2016, the Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) agreed to improve how the state hospitals develop treatment plans and determine which residents are ready to leave the hospital grounds for family visits and other outings or be released to live in the community. A series of restrictive policies were enacted in 2010 after a 2009 …
It looks like Pokémon Go is under scrutiny once more with angry residents taking aim at the developers. A couple in Detroit are filing a lawsuit against Niantic, Nintendo, and the Pokemon company according to the Detroit Free Press, after complaining that the developers have been raking in cash while property owners have suffered from the barrage of Pokémon Go players invading their properties. …
Residents who filed a class action lawsuit over PFOA contamination want a federal court in Vermont to throw out a company’s motion to dismiss the case. Attorneys for Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics had previously argued the case should be dismissed or stayed because the company challenged the state’s drinking water standard for PFOA, a man-made chemical that has been found …
Facing a federal lawsuit, Liberty Twp. trustees have extended the hours solicitors are allowed to come knocking on doors. Board President Tom Farrell told the Journal-News that summer hours, from May through September, will be extended to 9 p.m. Winter times, from October through April, will be extended to 6 p.m., he said.