Gawker Media has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with Hulk Hogan , according to multiple reports, ending a years-long legal battle waged against it with the partial support of tech billionaire Peter Thiel. As Gawker founder Nick Denton wrote in a blog post this week announcing the settlement: “The saga is over.” The deal requires Gawker to pay Hogan (né Terry Bollea) $31 million, …
It has been one full week since Donald Trump’ s lawyer threatened the New York Times with a lawsuit. Seven whole days and…? Nothing.
On Wednesday, The New York Times published an article featuring two women accusing Donald Trump of touching them inappropriately years ago. Trump has denied the allegations and threatened to sue the paper for libel. Trump’s lawyer demanded the Times retract the story and issue an apology.
Female lawyers are taking their fight for equal pay to court. Kerrie L. Campbell, a partner at big-name law firm Chadbourne & Parke, filed a $100 million class action lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of 26 current and former female partners at the firm, alleging that female partners receive less compensation than their male counterparts, the New York Times reported. Campbell’s suit is the latest …
Days after being named in a lawsuit, both Townsquare Media and KLAQ-95.5 FM radio host Buzz Adams responded to the lawsuit, saying that the anti-maternity leave allegations made against …
Twenty years ago this month, 23 women came together to file a major class-action lawsuit against Wall Street brokerage house Smith Barney, claiming widespread sexual harassment and pay discrimination. Close to 2,000 women ended up joining the complaint which became known as the “boom-boom room” suit, borrowing the name of a seedy sounding party room in the basement of a Smith Barney branch in …
Two New York Times employees, both black women in their 60s, today filed a multimillion dollar class action law suit against the paper’s CEO Mark Thompson and Executive Vice President Meredith Levien, alleging that the executives have created a work environment rife with racial, gender-based and age-based discrimination. “Unbeknownst to the world at large, not only does the Times have an …
Mark Thompson, the chief executive of the New York Times and former director-general of the BBC, is facing a multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit alleging that he introduced a culture of “deplorable discrimination” based on age, race and gender at the newspaper. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two black female employees in their sixties in New York on Thursday, claims that under Thompson’s …
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