Fake WeWork Takeover Bid by Strip Mall Investor Gets Him Five Years in Prison March 19, 2025 By Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg A former strip mall mogul was sentenced to five years in prison for orchestrating a fake WeWork Inc. takeover bid...
Florida Suit Over Charged Lemonade Death Puts New Focus on Energy Drink Safety December 28, 2023 By Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg Panera Bread Co. must face a lawsuit over a death allegedly linked to its new line of “charged” lemonades, which...
Federal Judge Rejects Weinstein’s $18.9 Million Sex-Abuse Settlement July 15, 2020 By Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg A federal judge won’t give preliminary approval to a proposed $18.9 million settlement between Harvey Weinstein and nine women who...
Judge Quashes Peloton’s Countersuit in Music Copyright Case February 3, 2020 By Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg Peloton Interactive Inc.’s attempt to fire back at music publishers who sued the exercise bike maker for copyright infringement was...
Judge Tosses Ex-NFL Player’s Lawsuit Alleging Insufficient Benefits Disclosure September 6, 2019 By Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg Hours before the kickoff of the pro football season, a judge moved to toss out a lawsuit by a former...
Alex and Ani Jeweler Alleges Lending Gender Bias by Bank July 29, 2019 By Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg and Polly Mosendz A few short years ago, jewelry maker Alex and Ani LLC was the public example of a happy Bank of...
Weinstein’s Companies, Directors, Officers Off the Hook for Sexual Misconduct Claims April 23, 2019 By Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg Harvey Weinstein’s former companies and their officers and directors were dismissed from a federal lawsuit filed by 10 women, who...
Shareholder Suit Alleges Pizza Chain Papa John’s Hid Executives’ Misbehavior August 31, 2018 By Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg and Christopher Yasiejko Papa John’s International Inc. founder John Schnatter will be questioned by the pizza chain’s lawyers about his demand for internal...
MGM Facing Boycott for Suing Las Vegas Shooting Victims July 19, 2018 By Christopher Palmeri and Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg It took just minutes for the hashtag #BoycottMGMResorts to appear on Twitter, and for people to declare they would no...
Court Overturns $663 Million Fraud Judgment Against Guardrail Maker Trinity October 2, 2017 By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg Trinity Industries Inc. won’t have to pay a $663 million judgment that was awarded in a whistleblower lawsuit alleging the...