Buy Photo February 13 2014 – Stacks of rubber gloves and rape kits sit behind a glass cabinet at the Rape Crisis Center at 1750 Madison on Thursday Feb. 13, 2014. (Photo: William DeShazer, The Commercial Appeal)Buy Photo CONNECTTWEET1 LINKEDIN1 COMMENTEMAILMORE More women are joining legal proceedings against the city over the accumulation of thousands of untested rape kits disclosed three …
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 …
Reader CDW passes along another challenge to Uber’s assertion that its drivers are just contractors. A federal judge in eastern Pennsylvania is hearing a case where Uber drivers are claiming that they should be on the clock when they are logged into the Uber app, waiting for a ride. In addition, they are claiming this should entitle them to minimum wage and overtime pay .
Embattled Volkswagen is facing a new lawsuit in US courts over devices used to cheat emissions standards, this one against luxury brand Audi, according to court documents. The new case filed Tuesday in Illinois court, cites a media report Audi installed the cheating devices on gasoline-powered cars to hide the true emissions of climate-warming gas carbon dioxide, court papers say. The latest suit follows last month’s USD 14.7 billion class action settlement in Volkswagen’s diesel emissions cheating scandal, which has rocked …
Morgan and Morgan attorneys have filed a class action lawsuit at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Tampa over the toxic sinkhole that has opened up in Mulberry. They’re going after Mosaic, the fertilizer giant with a checkered past , demanding extensive remediation/clean up measures and money for affected residents. Environmental attorney Rene Rocha, whose resume includes …
Statements of defence from both deny blame over faulty hair tests used in court to remove children from their parents. He rejects the findings of an independent review led by retired Court of Appeal Justice Susan Lang last year, which harshly criticized hair testing procedures at Motherisk. “The hair testing methodologies employed by (Motherisk) were, at all material times, accurate and …
A class-action lawsuit could be the newest trouble facing the blood-testing start-up. Somehow, things just keep getting worse for Theranos.
A lawsuit seeking to be certified as a class action has been filed on behalf of consumers in New York and California against the owner of Quaker Oats after testing found traces of the pesticide glyphosate in some oatmeal. While the level of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the popular weed killer Roundup, detected in the oatmeal falls well below the limit set by federal regulators for human …
In a 2002 class-action lawsuit against companies that built wealth off slaves, the court demanded that the plaintiffs prove they were descendant from former slaves. The plaintiffs used genetic testing to prove their relationship to different nation groups in Africa. Alondra Nelson, dean of social science at Columbia University, explored the cultural and political meaning of DNA testing in her latest book The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome, published earlier this year.