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Aim of Nevada Anti-Fracking Suit to Block Drilling
Jul 8 2014 // A rural Nevada group is asking a federal judge to block the sale of oil and gas leases they say will be used for hydraulic fracturing and other development that poses a much greater threat to sage grouse and other wildlife...
Empire State Building Owner Seeking Dismissal of Investor Lawsuit in N.Y.
Jul 8 2014 // The Empire State Building’s managers asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit over claims they deprived thousands of early investors of as much as $410 million in profit when they took the New York skyscraper public. The...
Ousted Oregon Workers’ Compensation CEO Plans to Sue
Jul 7 2014 // The man fired as leader of Oregon’s workers compensation agency after just three months on the job has filed notice that he plans to sue over his ouster. John Plotkin alleges his predecessor at SAIF Corp. wanted the...
Father of Illinois Teen Sues School District Over Son’s Suicide
Jul 7 2014 // The father of a southern Illinois teenager who killed himself a day after watching an anti-bullying movie at school has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the district, accusing administrators of failing to stop the...
New Jersey Superfund Site Lawsuit Allowed to Proceed
Jul 7 2014 // A lawsuit filed against a New Jersey town and county and the Army Corps of Engineers over the nearly $80 million cleanup of a Raritan Bay Superfund site can proceed, a federal judge ruled last week. U.S. District Judge...
Michigan Bill Limiting Lawsuits Against Insurers Sent to Governor
Jul 7 2014 // A bill approved by Michigan Legislature that further limits certain consumer lawsuits against insurance companies under the state’s Consumer Protection Act has been sent to Gov. Rick Snyder for his signature. The...
Atlanta Braves Cite ‘Baseball Rule’ in Injury Suit Defense
Jul 7 2014 // The Atlanta Braves baseball team has asked an appeals court to uphold a special rule and find the team not liable for the serious injuries suffered by a 6-year-old girl who was struck by a ball. Lawyers for the team want...
Insurers Suspect Fraud, Sue Phillips Asbestos Trust
Jul 6 2014 // Six insurance companies are suing an asbestos personal injury trust set up by a U.S. unit of Philips that the insurers suspect has been making millions of dollars in fraudulent payments to parties that cannot prove they...
N.J. Court OKs Employment Contract That Shortened Worker’s Time to Sue
Jul 3 2014 // A New Jersey appeals court recently affirmed that a worker was bound by a contractual provision, contained in an employment application, which shortened the two-year statute of limitations for filing claims against his...
Lawsuit Over Hiker’s Death Moves to Wyoming from India
Jul 3 2014 // A federal lawsuit seeking damages against a Wyoming-based wilderness training academy over the death of a hiker on a 2011 trip to India will be heard in Wyoming. The lawsuit filed by Elizabeth Brenner of Minnetonka,...
Louisiana School Board Settles Lawsuit In Librarian Incident
Jul 3 2014 // The Baker School Board has voted to settle a Louisiana suit filed against the board by a parent who alleged a Baker Heights Elementary School librarian choked her son in 2011. Attorney Winston DeCuir (day-KWEER’),...
Number of Med Mal Lawsuits in Pennsylvania Has Steadied, Data Show
Jul 3 2014 // The number of medical malpractice lawsuits in Pennsylvania has steadied and leveled off statewide over the last 10 years, according to statistics released by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts. The data shows...
Litigation Financing Firm Exits Tennessee As New Law Goes Into Effect
Jul 3 2014 // A litigation funding firm said it is leaving Tennessee as the state now requires firms like his to register and regulates their business of loaning money to consumers bringing lawsuits. Illinois-based Oasis Legal Finance,...
Relatives of Auburn University Football Shooting Victims Sue Gunman
Jul 3 2014 // Relatives of two former Auburn University football players shot to death at a party and a third man who was wounded are suing the suspected gunman. Desmonte Leonard faces capital murder and other charges in the killings of...
Alabama State Suit Against Auditor Dismissed by California Court
Jul 3 2014 // A California court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Alabama State University against the auditing firm that’s reviewing the school’s finances. An attorney for Forensic Strategic Solutions said that Los Angeles...
Family Of Woman Killed In 2012 Crash Sues Hawaii Bar
Jul 2 2014 // The family of a woman who died in a crash with a man suspected of driving while intoxicated is suing a Kaneohe bar, claiming the establishment improperly served him alcohol. The crash on June 30, 2012, killed Rene Nihipali...
Rite Aid Settles California Lawsuit For Nearly $500,000
Jul 2 2014 // Rite Aid will pay nearly a half-million dollars to settle California claims that it didn’t follow consumer protection rules. The settlement, approved Friday in San Diego, also calls for the drugstore chain to comply...
South Carolina Jury Awards $8.1 Million to Investor Who Sued BB&T
Jul 1 2014 // A South Carolina jury on Monday awarded $8.1 million to a former adviser who sold his wealth management business to BB&T Corp. and later alleged that the company mismanaged his retirement nest egg with a risky...
Lawsuit Filed in Boston Claims Car Service Uber Exploits Drivers
Jun 30 2014 // A Boston labor lawyer has sued the car service Uber, alleging that it exploits its drivers. The suit filed on June 26 in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston by attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan says Uber Technologies Inc....
AIG Ex-CEO Greenberg Loses Supreme Court Appeal in Suit Against Bailout
Jun 30 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, who accused the Federal Reserve Bank of New York of unlawfully bailing...
