The attorney general of Kansas joined a coalition of 14 states in opposition to a proposed class-action settlement of a Florida lawsuit providing little compensation to consumers while paying attorneys handling the case nearly $3 million. Attorney General Derek Schmidt joined a friend-of-the-court brief filed in U.S. District Court in a lawsuit that alleged UnitedHealthcare improperly denied …
California’s Second District Court of Appeals ruled against the California Highway Patrol this week in a case addressing how the law enforcement agency classifies the arrests of people who are then released without being charged. The class-action lawsuit was brought by John Schmidt, who was arrested by the CHP in 2011 on suspicion of driving under the influence, was booked into the Santa …
In early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley engineers began booming , Apple’s Steve Jobs sealed a secret and illegal pact with Google’s Eric Schmidt to artificially push their workers wages lower by agreeing not to recruit each other’s employees, sharing wage scale information, and punishing violators. On February 27, 2005, Bill Campbell, a member of Apple’s board of directors and senior …