Guillermo del Toro‘s film The Shape of Water is being slapped with a copyright infringement lawsuit. The news comes at an inopportune time for the movie, as the 90th Academy Awards ceremony airs on March 4, 2018. The Shape of Water received 13 Oscar nominations, more than any other film this year.
Claims filed in connection with the 2014 water crisis settlement will continue to come in over the next few days following last week’s deadline. Charleston attorney Anthony Majestro told MetroNews they received more than 80,000 claims for the $151 million settlement between West Virginia American Water Company and Eastman Chemical following the 2014 Freedom Industries …
The New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board’s woes are headed to court. A group of activists, joined by an historic Treme church and two frustrated residents, sued Monday (Oct. 16) to attempt to force the public agency to divulge any future drainage problems in real time. The lawsuit accuses the utility of failing to properly notify customers about the condition of its drainage pumps and power …
Sony Loses Class Action Lawsuit in Waterproof Claims for Original Xperia Z Line Arguably, one of the pioneers in the consumer sector for more “rugged” devices (or at the very least IP certification) has to be Sony. Back in 2012, they introduced the Xperia Z line of the devices, which marked a turning point for Sony in most of its philosophy as well as its design language. They completely …
The Walt Disney Company has been slapped with a lawsuit claiming that more than 40 of its smartphone apps are illegally spying on children. The class-action lawsuit alleges that Disney is violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The law, passed in 1998, was designed to protect the privacy of children online.
Centre in Cherokee County is suing scores of carpet and textile companies, as well as chemical manufacturers, that it says are responsible for polluting the city’s water. The suit, filed today in Cherokee County Circuit Court, says the companies put harmful chemical compounds into the raw water supply upstream of Centre Water’s intake site “in or near the City of Dalton, Ga.” The lawsuit is …
Gulfstream Park illegally discharged pollutants into a canal that flows to the Intracoastal Waterway for at least four years starting in 2011, according to a lawsuit filed this week by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The horse racing track could face fines of $37,500 a day per violation – or more than $50 million — for violating the federal Clean Water Act, said the lawsuit filed Wednesday by the …
A revised U.S. Army Corps of Engineers water plan for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin is being challenged by environmental groups that say the Sunshine State is again being cheated out of its fair share of the river system’s flow. Earthjustice on Thursday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of the National Wildlife Federation, Florida Wildlife Federation and the Apalachicola Riverkeeper claiming the Army Corps failed to …
Attorneys for an energy company being sued by the federal government say lawyers for the Environmental Protection Agency are defying one of President Trump’s executive orders that, if obeyed, would essentially kill the agency’s lawsuit against the company. The accusation against the EPA, and their Justice Department (DOJ) lawyers, is the latest episode in a five-year-old fight between the …
For years, thousands of Opa-locka water customers have railed against irregular and inflated bills, accusing the city of running a deeply flawed utility system undermined by leaky pipes, inaccurate meters and corrupt management. Now, they have some compelling proof: A consultant retained by Opa-locka to survey the city’s 5,800 water meters has found that only half can be read at all and just …