Sentences with phrase «accused in a federal lawsuit»

It is also the latest blow to CBA, which has been accused in a federal lawsuit of breaching anti-money laundering protocols more than 50,000 times and has admitted to using outdated medical definitions to refuse sick customers health insurance payouts.

REUTERS — Nov 18 — Match.com is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees.

Stone, the star of such films as Basic Instinct, has been accused in a federal lawsuit in New York of failing to show up for paid anti-Chevron appearances in Ecuador.

A foreclosure law firm in New York is accused in a federal lawsuit of overbilling Fannie Mae by inflating costs for mortgage - related services offered by its wholly owned affiliates.

Not exact matches

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm on Tuesday, accusing the company of antitrust violations in its patent licensing business.

Shortly after Dimon spoke, lawyers for JPMorgan filed papers in Manhattan federal court seeking to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the bank of deceiving shareholders about Bruno Iksil — the JPMorgan trader nicknamed the London Whale for the size of his positions — and the loss that ultimately topped $ 6.2 billion.

The preliminary injunction, filed in federal court on Friday, comes a few weeks after Waymo filed an explosive lawsuit accusing Uber of stealing the design for its lidar sensor that allows the car to detect obstacles.

The proposed class - action lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in federal court in Minnesota, accused the third - largest U.S. bank of «self - dealing and imprudent investing» by steering 401 (k) contributions to its Wells Fargo Dow Jones Target Date funds.

It is suing its rival in a third lawsuit, this one also in a New York federal court, accusing it of infringing on one of its patents.

wo former corporate private eyes have accused GlaxoSmithKline of hiring them under false pretenses to investigate a whistleblower in China and that the move led to their imprisonment, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.

In that lawsuit, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has accused 17 banks of selling dubious mortgage securities to the two housing giants.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, accuses the companies of exploiting the country's opaque drug - pricing system in a way that benefits themselves and the intermediaries known as pharmacy benefit managers.

A federal judge Wednesday allowed Maryland and the District of Columbia to proceed with their lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of accepting unconstitutional gifts from foreign interests, but limited the case to the president's involvement with the Trump International Hotel in Washington.

A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston with the support of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee accuses five investment houses, the Bank for International Settlements, and top officials of the U.S. Treasury Department and U.S. Federal Reserve Board of conspiring to suppress the price of gold.

He obtained a restraining order at the end of February, shortly before Daniels filed her lawsuit in court, and has now filed papers in federal court accusing Daniels of violating the terms of the nondisclosure agreement.

The law was also cited in a pending $ 6.2 million federal lawsuit accusing Palos Heights officials of religious bias in blocking the establishment of a mosque.

Last month, a Chicago couple filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Chicago Park District of violating their rights because it would not allow a reference to Jesus on a commemorative brick in a park.

Black Lives Matter - Buffalo and a coalition of Buffalo residents have filed a federal lawsuit against the Buffalo Police Department, accusing the agency of engaging in a «repeated, persistent and widespread pattern of unconstitutional policing» that targets people of color.

New York's Eric Schneiderman and Minnesota's Lori Swanson announced Friday that the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court accuses the Department of Health and Human Services of withholding more than $ 1 billion.

A former senior official appointed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo who resigned recently has been accused by a former state employee of sexual harassment and assault, according to a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan over the weekend.

New York authorities have accused United Parcel Service in a federal lawsuit of shipping 700,000 cartons of untaxed cigarettes in the state between 2010 and 2014 despite an earlier agreement to stop.

Mr. Silver, who resigned on Monday as speaker after being arrested on federal corruption charges in January, was accused of essentially facilitating the harassment by not acting forcefully to prevent Mr. Lopez's behavior as leader of the Assembly, which was also named as a defendant in one of the lawsuits.

[From The WSJ] John Liu, a former New York City comptroller who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year, accused the city Campaign Finance Board in a federal lawsuit of unlawfully denying his campaign millions of dollars in public matching funds.

A federal lawsuit filed by NRP accuses Brown of racketeering conspiracy for a failed housing development in Buffalo.

In the 2016 federal lawsuit, Antonacci is accused of violating the civil rights of three county contractors.

And though he wasn't accused of any crime, Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez was forced to resign his seat in May in the wake of a scathing report about his bullying and sexually inappropriate treatment of female staffers — now the subject of state and federal lawsuits against Lopez and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who apologized for quietly settling earlier complaints against Lopez with a taxpayer - funded confidential settlement.

The lawsuit filed Monday is the latest in a wave of legal cases filed by children against states and the federal government that accuse government of depriving them of the fundamental right to a stable climate.

So do the business practices of telecoms: AT&T and Verizon have been accused in lawsuits and other legal actions of bilking the system of millions of dollars, while many smaller companies have taken advantage of local monopolies and generous federal subsidies.

A federal lawsuit filed in Manhattan on Friday accuses Lufthansa Cargo and others of destroying a three - million - dollar painting by the American artist Brice Marden during a move last year from Moscow to New York, Reuters reported, according to the New York Times.

Five New York museums argued in federal court on Friday, April 27 that a lawsuit accusing them of manipulating the contemporary art market has no merit.

Last week, the Viennese nonprofit Archiv Franz West accused the Gagosian of damaging the late artist's legacy by planning to use «unauthorized» versions of his work in the exhibition, according to a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit.

Bloomberg notes that at least two other lawsuits accusing Trump of violating the foreign emoluments clause are pending, in federal district courts in Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

Bloomberg Law is reporting that a little - noticed lawsuit filed in New York federal court accuses a former federal prosecutor of unethically preventing a whistleblower from telling the FTC that he hacked an embattled company's files using «FBI surveillance software» that the prosecutor gave him.

To illustrate the problem with accusing judges of bias, given the term's various meanings, the article focuses on recent federal litigation over NYC police stop - and - frisk policy in which (1) the district judge found «implicit bias» in police practices based on accumulated evidence and expert analysis, (2) the Second Circuit found that the district judge engaged in disqualifying judicial bias because of her comments in a prior related lawsuit and in the media, and (3) critics accused the Second Circuit of bias in making decisions that were hard to justify on either procedural or substantive grounds.

Roberts is facing a civil lawsuit in the US District Court for Utah filed by Terry Mitchell, a Utah woman who has accused Roberts of raping her when he was a 27 - year - old federal prosecutor and she was a 16 - year - old witness in one of his cases.

The United States Federal Trade Commission in January accused Qualcomm of violating the FTC Act by using anticompetitive tactics and abusing its patent portfolio to remain the dominant supplier of LTE chips for smartphones, and in June, a judge ruled that Qualcomm will face an antitrust lawsuit.

The Gateway Pundit is one of several blogs that was named in a federal defamation lawsuit filed in Michigan earlier in February 2018, accusing them of falsely identifying a teen as the driver that killed Heather Heyer during a counter-protest against white nationalists in Charlotesville, Virginia in August 2017.

A federal judge Friday cleared Broward Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes in a lawsuit that accused her office of facilitating voter fraud.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal court, accused Facebook of making false or misleading statements by failing to disclose it violated its own privacy policies by allowing Cambridge Analytica to access users» data without their consent.

Khrapunov, who denied the allegations, also helped launder about $ 300 million for his father, Viktor Khrapunov, who's accused of embezzling the money from Almaty when he was its mayor from 1997 to 2004, according to a lawsuit the city and BTA Bank filed in federal court in New York in 2015.