After the stunning Congressional override of Obama’s veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism (JASTA), aka the “Sept.11” bill, many wondered how long until the first lawsuit by a Sept 11 victim naming Saudi Arabia as a defendant would emerge. It didn’t take long. On Friday, September 30, a woman widowed when her husband…
Some African-American United Airlines pilots involved in a lengthy lawsuit over allegations of discrimination at the airline are asking Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice to look into their claims, their attorney said last week. The pilots allege Chicago-based United passed them over for management promotions because of their race and retaliated against them…
A lawsuit filed this month against a prominent Valley charter school and the state charter schools board challenges how it incorporates religion in its teaching of history. The lawsuit against Mesa-based Heritage Academy, a publicly funded charter school, is the latest in a years-long fight by a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit to remove two controversial textbooks.…
The mother of Sandra Bland, a black woman who died last summer in a Texas jail after a contentious traffic stop, has reached a $1.9 million settlement in her wrongful-death lawsuit, according to her attorney. Local officials in Texas insisted the agreement was not yet final, but the mother’s attorney said the deal was “absolute”…
Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Acclarent, paid $18 million to resolve allegations the company marketed a medical device without FDA approval, which led health care providers to submit false claims to Medicare and other federal healthcare programs. According to a statement from the Justice Department, Melayna Lokosky, a saleswoman for Acclarent, filed a whistleblower suit against…
Herbalife Ltd. agreed to pay $200 million and make sweeping changes to its business to settle U.S. claims that the nutrition company deceived consumers with get-rich-quick promises. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission stopped short of hedge fund manager Bill Ackman’s call to declare Herbalife a pyramid scheme and to shut it down, but it described…
