The Florida House of Representatives has filed an amicus brief showing support for Gov. Rick Scott in his legal battle with Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala, which began after she announced that her office would no longer seek the death penalty. Representatives argued in the court filing that Ayala does not have the power to act as a legislative policy maker.
Lawyers for convicted felons filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against Florida officials, alleging that the state’s process for restoring voting rights to people who have completed their sentences is arbitrary. The lawsuit, filed in federal court on behalf of seven convicted felons by the Fair Elections Legal Network and the Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll law firm, seeks to …
A lawsuit alleging Cerner Corp. improperly failed to pay hundreds of employees overtime wages has been certified as a class action. Jackson County Circuit Judge W. Brent Powell issued the ruling Tuesday, finding that common issues predominated over individual ones and there were enough would-be class members to warrant class certification. The suit was filed in 2015 by Laura Scott and alleges …
The city of Austin and a police officer are facing a lawsuit over excessive force after a homeless man claims he was not engaged in criminal activity when he was wrongfully slammed to the ground by a police officer. Justin Tyler Scott was initially charged after he allegedly attempted to take a stun gun from officer Gregory White and use it against him in February of last year . …
A plan by the Marine Corps to include spiritual fitness as a component of professional military education is unconstitutional and must be stopped, the leader of a group dedicated to keeping religion out of the military says. Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, told Military.com he plans to assemble a class-action lawsuit if the Corps proceeds with its …
This place is a dump! That’s what California lawyer Christian Pugaczewski says about the “fashionable” apartment he thought he was renting on Roosevelt Island this summer from a Victoria’s Secret model. In papers filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, Pugaczewski said the apartment offered on Airbnb was so dreadful that he fled immediately to a relative’s couch in the suburbs before finding …
Emerson Scott, LLP announces the filing of a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of a California and a nationwide class of persons with Transamerica …
Emerson Scott, LLP announces the filing of a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of a California and a nationwide class of persons with Transamerica universal life insurance policies who had sudden increases in their monthly deductions …
When developers at a top U.S. stock exchange needed help debugging a program that puts time stamps on quotes and trades in July, they could have hired a high-profile consulting firm. Instead, they called a customer who runs a company out of a small office in a Chicago suburb who had weeks earlier called the exchange’s dealings with high-frequency trading firms “completely illegal” on Twitter. …