A federal judge ordered Iran to pay $63 million to Amir Hekmati, a United States Marine who spent four years imprisoned on espionage charges. According to The Washington Post, Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., granted Hekmati’s motion for a default judgment after Iran refused to respond to the complaint.
When Hurricane Harvey tore through Texas, it turned many people’s lives upside down. The Houston area, in particular, was a dangerous place to be, which is why some passengers of a Royal Caribbean cruise have decided to file a class-action lawsuit. It turns out that while everyone else was fleeing the area or hunkering down in their homes for safety, passengers of a Liberty of the Seas cruise scheduled to leave August 27th were essentially told there was nothing to worry about. According to the lawsuit, “by failing to cancel the August 27th sailing of Liberty of the Seas out of storm-ravaged Galveston, Royal Caribbean put passengers in danger.”
Porta Potty Odor Leads to Class Action Lawsuit
A lawsuit was recently filed against Cummins Inc. for “allegedly violating a gender discrimination law stemming from the pay of a woman who worked at a company call center in Tennessee.” The lawsuit itself was filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of Krista Clements. According to the lawsuit, Clements was “unfairly paid less than a male counterpart, Scott Olivio, even though they performed equal work at the call center in Nashville.”
Iowa Resident Take $75 Speeding Ticket to Supreme Court
Do you remember the pink slime dispute between Beef Products Inc., ABC, and ABC’s parent company, Disney? Earlier this year the dispute ended when Disney agreed to a $177 million litigation settlement, but the damage to Beef Products Inc. (BPI) had already been done, according to the company. According to the company, the lawsuit damaged its reputation and resulted in a drop in sales, plant closures, and layoffs. Fortunately, the recent settlement has allowed company owners to establish a “$10 million fund to benefit former BPI employees impacted by plant closures.”
After a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against him, Jim Carrey is making it known that he has no intentions of just rolling over and backing down. Rather, he decided to counter-sue his accusers, the family of his deceased girlfriend, Cathriona White.
Whole Foods is back in the news. Recently, the beleaguered corporate pawn and shell of a once-awesome grocery retailer washed up on the shore of our newsfeeds with a couple reports worth noticing: a data breach and an allegedly wrongful termination.
After almost a decade of false starts and dismissals, a lawsuit filed by former inmates at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is moving ahead. The suit is directed against the civilian interrogators who were contracted and charged with overseeing the facility, which made international headlines after a series of terrifying photographs were made
Cabot Finally Settles Two Decade-long Drilling Lawsuits