Sentences with phrase «federal lawsuit charges»

A Rikers Island correction officer raped a female inmate for more than 15 minutes while another officer watched, a new Manhattan federal lawsuit charges.

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Even before being hit with a federal securities fraud lawsuit by the SEC and independent perjury charges by the DOJ last month, the founder of a now - defunct cryptocurrency exchange had left a trail of lawsuits.

The lawsuit, comprised of many federal cases consolidated in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston, charged that TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (NYSE: TDCHF) conspired to fraudulently market, sell and distribute Lupron, causing consumers to pay inflated prices for the drug.

On Friday, Apple filed a lawsuit in a San Diego federal court alleging that Qualcomm is charging too much for «standard essential» patents and is withholding nearly $ 1 billion in royalty cap «rebates» in retaliation for Apple's cooperation with anti-trust investigators in the U.S., South Korea and elsewhere.

After the disaster and criminal charges, representatives of various tribal nations stepped into the legal fray, filing a federal lawsuit last March against Ray and those who run the Angel Valley Retreat Center, where he had leased land for his program.

The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit charging that North Carolina's bathroom law violates federal civil - rights law — a move that came hours after the state's officials filed their own suit saying the department was trying to rewrite national law by attacking them.

New York City has settled a federal lawsuit filed in 2016 by public school parents who charged that school violence and bullying were not being adequately addressed.

Citing President Trump's «racially charged language,» a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled that a lawsuit seeking to preserve a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation could continue.

The New York Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday morning the settlement of a federal lawsuit against the Buffalo City School District for what it charged was «the open and systematic discrimination of LGBTQ students at McKinley High School.»

«These charges come from a baseless civil lawsuit from the same people who were being investigated by the Moreland Commission that the governor shut down, and they'll be thrown out by the federal court as soon as it gets there.»

Starting in the 1990s, Simpson led the charge in a federal lawsuit against the state that asserted the civil service test was biased against black and Hispanic state workers.

My tires have been punctured by nails, blow torches, and wooden stakes (7 destroyed tires and counting); there have been multiple death threats, I have been beaten, robbed, defamed, sued, obstructed and even arrested and convicted on false charges brought by corrupt police officers (currently the subject of an appeal and a federal lawsuit against the three police officers involved).

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.

One day after it was revealed that Carl Paladino will be suing the Buffalo Board of Education over efforts to oust him from that body, some board members are pushing back against the charge that there is a conspiracy against him The expected federal lawsuit is revealed in a letter Dennis Vacco, an...

ALBANY, NY (08/05/2013)(readMedia)-- CSEA has filed federal lawsuits against the state Thruway Authority and Canal Corp. charging that last spring's layoff of union members working at the agencies was unconstitutional.

The Westchester County Executive responds to the criticism leveled on him Wednesday night by the governor regarding the federal housing discrimination lawsuit, among other things, and addresses the question of who's the angriest when it comes to charges against their record.

CANTON, N.Y. — Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick is among more than 40 public officials and agencies named in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a former Clarkson University soccer coach acquitted of murder charges.

Regardless of the outcome of the hearing, Paladino has already filed a federal lawsuit against the board, charging that his constitutional rights to free speech have been violated.

During the discovery stage of the civil lawsuit, Antonacci is asking for access to email records about Mahoney supporter Steven Aiello, a Cor Development Co. executive who faces federal corruption charges in an unrelated criminal case.

But the 82 - year - old retired school administrator — whose 1977 move to charge the families of undocumented children here $ 1,000 per student to attend public schools sparked a federal lawsuit — has more than made his peace with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against him and the school system in Plyler v. Doe.

A group of Hispanic residents in El Paso has filed a lawsuit charging that federal immigration officials have been violating their rights at or near a high school on the U.S. - Mexican border.

Another NES - made exam is currently being challenged in a New York federal court lawsuit, charging that state's test is racially biased and not job related (see Examiner, Summer 1996).

More than twenty class action lawsuits charging the Educational Testing Service (ETS) with damaging 4,100 prospective teachers by erroneously giving them failing grades on its Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching (PLT) licensing exam (see Examiner, Fall 2004 and Spring - Summer 2004) have been consolidated in Federal District Court in Louisiana.

Most Kindle Nation Daily readers are aware that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a major antitrust lawsuit against Apple and the five original «agency model» publishers charging them with a massive price - fixing conspiracy in violation of federal law.

Barely a year after settling a federal lawsuit for almost the exact charges, the state of Florida has opened an investigation into the practices used by Experian's credit monitoring companies.

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Feb. 9, 2017, against three interrelated student loan debt relief companies for allegedly violating Section 5 of the FTC Act and the Telemarketing Sales Rule.The FTC issued a press release saying that the defendants illegally charged thousands of consumers more than $ 28 million.

The three lawsuits charge that, under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, the national bureaus — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — are required to follow «reasonable procedures to assume maximum possible accuracy of information in consumer [credit] reports.»

Three environmental groups file lawsuits against BP in federal court, charging that the gulf oil spill continues to harm endangered and threatened species.

Born in 1941, he became a climatologist at the University of Iowa, developed the groundbreaking «Zero Model» for projecting climate change, and later became the head of climate research at NASA, only to leave under pressure when, while still a federal employee, he filed a lawsuit against the federal government charging inaction on warming (along the way he got arrested a few times for protesting, too).

In addition, Popehat notes that Global Wildlife Foundation president Ken Matherne has subsequently «threatened to file criminal charges, FCC charges, fraud charges, an IRS complaint, a governor's office complaint, and a federal lawsuit» against HAN.

In a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Bryndon Fisher of Seattle claims that the formula used by PACER to calculate per - page download charges is faulty and that it resulted in PACER overcharging him $ 37 over two years.

He has a broad range of litigation experience that includes handling some of the largest collective and class actions in Arizona, collective bargaining agreement arbitration, discrimination lawsuits, restrictive covenant enforcement and injunction, and the defense of administrative charges involving various state and federal agencies across the United States.

Whittel & Melton handles negotiation and settlement of Severance and Termination Agreements, EEOC charges, State and Federal labor & employment lawsuits, Mediation, Arbitration, Jury and Non Jury or Bench Trials and State and Federal Appeals.

A federal lawsuit challenging as excessive the fees charged by PACER, the federal courts» electronic records system, has been certified as a class action.

In a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Bryndon Fisher of Seattle claims that the formula used by PACER to calculate per - page download charges is faulty and that it resulted in PACER -LSB-...]

Before you can bring a harassment lawsuit, you must file an administrative charge either with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) or the federal administrative agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

He's charged with resolving more than 400 federal opioid lawsuits but he says he's not overwhelmed with the cases.

Many of our clients are facing federal criminal charges, civil lawsuits and administrative licensing issues simultaneously in parallel proceedings.

To file an employment discrimination lawsuit alleging a violation of New Hampshire's Law Against Discrimination and the federal Civil Rights Act a worker must first go through certain procedural requirements such as filing a Charge of Discrimination with the appropriate agency.

This article is about a federal lawsuit filed by the government of Bermuda alleging civil racketeering charges against Massachusetts - based Lahey Clinic.

Federal prosecutors have charged five men with «a widespread mail and wire fraud scheme» for running a slip - and - fall lawsuit scheme that cost insurers and property owners $ 32 million over five years, The New York Times reports....

With at least six Florida personal injury lawyers now facing unrelated criminal charges for defrauding auto insurers and the Sunshine State already in the running for this year's # 1 ranking among the nation's Judicial Hellholes, a panel of four federal judges last week imposed nearly $ 9.2 million in sanctions on two Jacksonville - based plaintiffs» firms for their shameless pursuit of more than 1,200 «frivolous and factually baseless lawsuits» against tobacco defendants... → Read More: Two Florida Firms» Fraudulent Tobacco Claims Draw Nearly $ 9.2 Million in Sanctions

To fight back, Planned Parenthood has filed 16 new lawsuits since July, including a federal lawsuit against the people behind the widely discredited videos, charging that anti-abortion activists engaged in an elaborate, illegal conspiracy in order to block women's access to safe and legal abortion.

The settlement resolved a Justice Department lawsuit charging that the company violated federal fair housing law by discouraging blacks from living in nine apartment buildings in Mobile.

An Idaho federal court has considered whether class action lawsuits are the appropriate way to resolve claims that real estate brokerages improperly charged inflated commissions for transactions involving undeveloped properties because the commission amounts were based on the properties projected developed value.

A company that finances home improvement projects in South Florida with no credit checks and no money down is the subject of a federal court lawsuit charging it fails to adequately disclose important limitations of the loans to its consumers.