After a spectacular fall from grace, Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former founder and CEO of Theranos, was sentenced to 11 years and three months in federal prison for defrauding numerous investors out of almost $1 billion. Ms. Holmes, 38, was convicted on four wire fraud counts due to her deceiving... Read More »
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Andrew Cheng has tentatively approved a $155 million settlement for over 10,000 current and retired prison supervisors throughout the state. The settlement was filed on behalf of employees who argued they were entitled to compensation for tasks and other job duties they performed before and... Read More »
A San Bernardino County school district has agreed to a $15.75 million settlement with the family of a student who died following an asthma attack while on campus. Thirteen-year-old Adilene Carrasco was a student at Mesa View Middle School in Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District when she suffered an asthma... Read More »
Wisconsin-based healthcare operator Forefront Dermatology has agreed to a $3.75 million settlement to end a class action lawsuit over a 2021 data breach. The organization operates a number of dermatology offices across the U.S. In 2021 a known ransomware group was able to exploit vulnerabilities within Forefront Dermatology’s network and... Read More »
The entertainment industry can be brutal. A powerful network can pick up your show one day only to drop it halfway through filming the pilot. For non-citizens working in the United States, Hollywood’s fickle nature can wreak havoc on their immigration status. What do you do when you get off... Read More »
It's a war of code and intellectual property rights in a recent lawsuit filed by GitHub programmers against GitHub, its parent company Microsoft, and a Microsoft tech partner OpenAI. In a first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit, GitHub programmers allege that the defendants violated open-source licensing because their code is being used... Read More »
Gaming graphics tech giant NVIDIA is at the center of a class action lawsuit that alleges poorly built gaming connector cables are melting, damaging both the connector cable and the gaming graphics card the cable attaches to. The lawsuit was filed by New York resident Lucas Genova last week and... Read More »
Todd and Julie Chrisley of the USA Network reality series “Chrisley Knows Best” were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud banks out of about $30 million in fraudulent loans. Also, according to CNN, they were found guilty of “several tax crimes, including attempting to defraud the Internal Revenue Service.” Todd... Read More »
A tragic accident at a Brooklyn work site proved fatal for a construction worker when he fell while building a protective sidewalk shed. The man, later identified by officials as 27-year-old Raul Tenelema Puli of Queens, was installing an i-beam at a Rabsky Group development site when he slipped and... Read More »
2022 is the year of mass corporate layoffs. Although the antics of Elon Musk following his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter have captured the media’s attention, Twitter is not the only major corporation to fire thousands of employees amid recession fears. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is laying off more than... Read More »
The parents of an eight-year-old boy who suffered a horrific fall after going up a popular rock climbing wall in Chicago’s Navy Pier are suing the operators of the rock climbing wall and other defendants. Erin and Gideon Brewer were visiting Chicago's Navy Pier from Grand Rapids, Michigan, on July... Read More »
In a one-of-a-kind unraveling, one of the nation's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, has filed for bankruptcy, is facing mounting lawsuits, and has customers wondering where their investments have gone and whether they’ll ever see their money again. At his peak, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF as he’s become known... Read More »
A Henderson, Tennessee, man has filed a lawsuit against the operators of a Christian Camp ten years after signing a confidential settlement with its operators, as reported by the Associated Press. Named in the lawsuit are the operators of the camp, including Kanakuk Ministries, Kanakuk CEO Joe White, Kanakuk Heritage... Read More »
The Senate has passed historic legislation recognizing same-sex marriage at both the federal and state levels. This measure passed with the vote of 62 Senators, including 12 Republicans. The vote to finalize the bill is set to be done the week of November 28, the week after the Thanksgiving holiday.... Read More »
Ohio’s Kent State University is at the center of a recently filed federal gender discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by the university’s only open transgender professor. According to the professor, the university violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. GPat Patterson is an assistant professor at... Read More »
