Paramount Pictures is embroiled in a legal battle with the heirs of Ehud Yonay, author of a 1983 magazine story that inspired the original 'Top Gun' film, over the blockbuster sequel 'Top Gun: Maverick'. Both parties are seeking a federal judge's ruling in their favor in this high-profile copyright lawsuit.... Read More »
Apple has agreed to a $25 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations of favoring immigrant workers over U.S. citizens and green card holders for specific employment roles. As announced by the Justice Department, this settlement marks the largest of its kind in a citizenship discrimination case.... Read More »
The U.S. government has commenced issuing settlement offers and payments for those affected by the contaminated water crisis at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. This action comes over a year following the enactment of a federal law aimed at providing compensation to victims of this environmental health issue. During an... Read More »
Dr. Canfeng Lai worked at Applied Technology (Applied) for fifteen years as an engineer and then as its Electrical Engineering Director. He, along with 17 other high-level employees, was wooed and “poached” by Mattson Technology, Inc. (Mattson), a rival Chinese semiconductor chip manufacturer. Before Lai left, he was accused of... Read More »
A trial judge abused her discretion when she granted a wife seeking a divorce a domestic violence restraining order (DVRO) and ordered her husband to get an assessment of his mental health. On appeal, the court ruled that the trial judge’s order was not issued according to statutes, and the... Read More »
The State of California owns the California Exposition and State Fair (Cal Expo) fairgrounds near Sacramento. Because the State owns the land, the plaintiff, a man who sought to distribute his religious tokens there, thought he could do so because state-owned land is normally classified as a public forum. public... Read More »
A U.S. jury found that a number of big-name players in the real estate space are liable to pay $1.78 billion in damages regarding allegations that they conspired to artificially inflate commissions for home sales. Named as defendants were the National Association of Realtors and some residential brokerages; Berkshire-owned HomeServices... Read More »
An Illinois family has filed a lawsuit against state officials after police officers executed a wrong-door raid. During the raid, the family says they were illegally detained for over six hours despite their pleas to officers that they had the wrong home. The federal civil rights lawsuit was filed last... Read More »
An investigation into the wage and tip practices of Massachusetts’ MGM Springfield has ended with the company agreeing to pay a multi-million dollar settlement with the state. The hotel and casino destination is located in the heart of Metro Center, Springfield, and was accused in 2018 of violating state wage... Read More »
Amazon is facing serious allegations in a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint that claims the e-commerce behemoth manipulated online prices and destroyed internal communications during a government probe. The unredacted version of the complaint, filed in a Washington federal court, sheds light on the secretive operations of Amazon and its... Read More »
In a recent trial involving FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, where a jury found him guilty of all counts last week, a forensic accountant has played a pivotal role in tracing the whereabouts of a staggering $9 billion in missing customer funds. Peter Easton, an accounting professor at the University of... Read More »
Chloe Psalm Jeri Borden, a 23-year-old single mother and activist, went to a courthouse in Fresno, California, in 2019 to film what she considered to be “law enforcement harassment and misconduct.” She took pictures of people entering and leaving the building and its lobby on her cell phone while she... Read More »
An off-duty Los Angeles police officer shot and killed a schizophrenic man who shoved him from behind and knocked him to the ground when he was sampling a sausage at Costco. The officer said he “believed” the man had a gun and that he was “acting within the scope of... Read More »
In a ruling on Monday, Judge K. Christopher Jayaram of the District Court of Johnson County, Kansas, issued a preliminary injunction against a state law that mandated healthcare providers to inform patients that medication abortion can be reversed and is linked to breast cancer. The injunction will remain in effect... Read More »
Maureen McDermott was sentenced to death for the attempted murder and first-degree murder of her housemate in 1990. She filed a habeas corpus petition that asked the court to review the legality of her conviction, arguing that the district attorney who prosecuted her committed “prejudicial error” when she quoted Biblical... Read More »
