Capping a six-year investigation, the Justice Department announced last week that Orange County California’s numerous law enforcement entities regularly denied criminal defendants their legal rights. The 63-page report said prosecutors and sheriffs in Orange County, California, regularly misused a jailhouse informant program to deny the constitutional rights of criminal defendants.... Read More »
The nation’s largest domestic carrier, American Airlines, has agreed to a $7.5 million settlement to end a lawsuit claiming the company improperly charged baggage fees to certain passengers. The class-action lawsuit was filed in February 2021 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The initial... Read More »
The family of a North Charleston, SC, cyclist who was killed by an Uber driver in November 2021 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver and the ride-sharing company. On the evening of November 14, 2021, Joseph David Chase Jr. was struck from behind by Uber driver Kenric... Read More »
The University of Iowa Hospital and Clinic (UIHC) has agreed to a $15 million settlement to end a 2019 class action lawsuit that alleged hospital and clinic employees were improperly paid and were not paid overtime. The lawsuit was filed against Iowa's Board of Regents, the governing body of the... Read More »
A Mississippi judge has blocked a state law that allocated $10 million of federal pandemic relief funding to infrastructure grants for qualifying private schools in the state. The ruling was handed down by Hinds County Chancery Judge Crystal Wise Martin. Her ruling comes after the nonprofit group Parents for Public... Read More »
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the bread and butter of many enterprises. When someone searches Google, Yahoo, or Bing, the budding entrepreneur will do anything to ensure that terms relating to their industry direct the potential customer to the company’s website. Being relegated to the dreaded “second page” of Google... Read More »
Trevor Milton, the former CEO and founder of innovative electric truck company Nikola Motors, has been found guilty on three of four counts of fraud. The fraud charges stem from misleading statements Milton made while he was the acting chairman and CEO of Nikola. Milton, who rose to the rank... Read More »
Jane Doe, a woman plaintiff, created a successful software business and then sold it to SoftwareONE, Inc., a global corporation. They promised her an executive position, but within a year, her job was accompanied by demands for what she called “outlandish” behavior. For example, on a corporate retreat, the company’s... Read More »
A Jacksonville, Florida man has filed a lawsuit against medical device provider, Tracpatch Health Inc. The lawsuit was filed by Robert C. Hovey in the Middle District of Florida. According to Hovey, Tracpatch Health Inc. knowingly marketed a hip replacement system known as the Consensus Hip System despite it being... Read More »
The modern gig economy has given rise to a number of complications. Over the last few years, Rideshare drivers for Uber and Lyft and food delivery drivers for companies like Doordash and Grubhub have been locked in a battle over employee rights, centered on whether those workers should be considered... Read More »
The University of Washington has been ordered to pay the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) nearly $540,000 following a 2020 lawsuit that alleged the university destroyed critical public records during a federal investigation. In December 2021, the National Institute of Health released the results of a federal investigation... Read More »
Former Peloton trainer Daniel McKenna has filed a $2 million lawsuit against his former employee and a company executive. McKenna claimed that he was “subject to a hostile work environment” after the company discriminated, harassed, and retaliated against him. McKenna filed his lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court in... Read More »
The U.S. government has reached a deal with Native American victims who were sexually abused as boys by pedophile doctor Stanley Patrick Weber. The boys were abused at the hands of Weber in federal hospitals in Montana and South Dakota during the mid-1990s. Reports detail that eight victims would receive... Read More »
Music festival season has come to a close, but that hasn't kept the nation's most beloved festival, Coachella, out of national headlines. Last week Coachella's parent company Goldenvoice announced that it was suing the organizers of the similarly named Ghanese music festival, Afrochella, over copyright infringement. According to Goldenvoice, organizers... Read More »
A Washington state cattle rancher will serve 11 years in prison after his ‘Ghost Cattle’ scam racked up over $244 million in fraudulently obtained payments from partner companies. According to the Department of Justice, 51-year-old rancher Cody Allen Easterday used his company Easterday Ranches Inc to funnel millions of dollars... Read More »
