Citigroup was accused in a new lawsuit filed of using companywide layoffs during the recent financial turmoil to purge its work force of scores of female employees to save the jobs of less-qualified men. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District …
A New York judge says a jury can decide whether an author who wrote a best-selling book about Anna Nicole Smith’s death defamed her lawyer and companion. Federal Judge Denny Chin found plenty of reasons on Wednesday to let a …
A federal appeals judge encouraged lawyers to ask the Supreme Court whether corporations should continue to be held criminally responsible for the acts of rogue employees. Defense attorney Andrew Weissmann had hoped to get the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals …
A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube’s ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said. Google’s lawyers …
Immigrants seeking legal status in the United States are being victimized with disturbing frequency by their lawyers, a federal appeals panel said. After criticizing the work done and not done by defense lawyers, the three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. …
When a legally blind woman went to eat at N.Y. fast-food restaurants, workers greeted her with mockery and mistreatment, she said in a lawsuit. Employees grew irritated when she asked them to read menus to her, and workers in one …
For the second time, a U.S. judge approved a settlement this week among Holocaust victims, their heirs and an Italian insurer, turning aside objections from a few victims who believe the company is getting off easy. Saying the settlement was …
The former creative director of the U.S. arm of Japan’s largest advertising agency sued the company this week, saying he was pressured to visit a brothel and engage in other sexually explicit activities on company outings, then was fired after …
Madison Square Garden and New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas have asked a federal judge to drastically reduce the $11.6 million in punitive damages a jury awarded to a former Knicks executive after concluding she was sexually harassed and fired …
A federal appeals court panel suggested this week that New York City is not immune from liability in 8,000 cases accusing it and others of failing to properly protect workers cleaning up the World Trade Center site after the 2001 …
