Attorney Drew Blanchfield with Kehogh Cox is representing LSU in the suit. But in late June, he filed a response to the suit on behalf of LSU. It denies the allegations and says the plaintiffs have failed to state a claim against the university, Alexander and Layzell. Bankston says he would have thought the university would try to settle the case by now, rather than move forward with trial …
The attorney general says the Sackler family bears responsibility for the opioid crisis. The lawsuit against the Sackler family, which founded Purdue Pharma, was announced Tuesday. Indiana is following other states which had sued the family leading one of the nation’s largest drug manufacturers. The litigation follows a previous Indiana lawsuit filed against Purdue Pharma last year. Members of …
“Rather than responding to our clients’ urgent complaints, Starbucks instead chose to methodically bury them. In filing this lawsuit, Mr. Fox, Mr. D’Auria and Ms. Shwiner are speaking out for the protection of tens of thousands of hardworking New Yorkers who would never otherwise have imagined what’s in the air around them when they set foot into Starbucks stores in Manhattan,” attorney Ariel …
A lawyer who led two lawsuits against Trump University, settled for $21 million just weeks after Donald Trump’s election victory, says the suits would have been “almost impossible” to pursue under a law currently being pushed by Republicans in Congress. Helen Zeldes, a founding partner of ZHE Law, investigated and initiated one of two class-action lawsuits against Trump University, along with a …
A class action lawsuit has been filed in Buffalo against Governor Cuomo and the acting commissioner of the New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities. The litigation seeks to end what is considered a “moratorium” on more residential housing for thousands of adults. WBFO’s Michael Mroziak reports.
A federal judge on Monday shot down another attempt by Donald Trump to stop a group of former students from suing his former real estate school. Trump had argued that the fraud lawsuit shouldn’t have class action status because one of the students in the case, Sonny Low, didn’t actually care whether Trump University was accredited. But U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel ruled that …
Donald Trump plans to appear in the witness box to deny allegations that he defrauded thousands of people who signed up for courses at a now defunct college – even while campaigning to be US president. Earlier this week, a court in New York allowed a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit to proceed against Mr Trump, who is accused of misleading thousands of people who paid up to $35,000 to …