Christie - The Lawsuits Begin
Well, and I didn't think there was room for another Christie diary todayShort and sweet, just like Christie's POTUS aspirations...
View ArticleNew Orleans Teachers Win Big Victory
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many things changed in New Orleans. Almost immediately after the storm, for example, the state fired all of the public school teachers, took over the district,...
View ArticleFederal Judge in Virginia OKs Class-Action Status Against Ban on Gay Marriage
It's true what they say about elections having consequences! Virginia now has a Democratic Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General, and good things are starting to happen. From Reuters:A...
View ArticleWhat Do you call "Temp Workers" who are "Permanently" stuck there -- in a...
What do you call "Temp Workers"who are "Permanently" stuck there -- in their 'temporary' situation?Well, the economy that has made it an art-form, in exactly how to exploit employees To The MAX --...
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McNeil Offers Apology
Photo credit: Michael Gorman, Chronicle HeraldOn Friday, October 10, 2014, in an historic ceremony in the Red Room of the Nova Scotia Legislature, Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil made good on his...
View ArticleEbola: First (?) lawsuit over Ebola; Texas outbreak over, almost no one notices
The first lawsuit that I'm aware of concerning the Ebola outbreak got its start recently. The last person who was being monitored for signs of Ebola, was officially released from quarantine today....
View ArticlePurina Beneful class action lawsuit
Purina Beneful class action lawsuitFiled on the 4th, appears to be over 3000 complaints online. lots of info if you care to searchIts been the food we've fed our Yorkie for 10 years, lately she has...
View ArticleBREAKING: Lawsuit Against Uber Granted Class Action Status
This. Is. Huge.Uber’s business model is on the rocks late Tuesday after a federal judge granted class-action status to a lawsuit targeting the company’s treatment of drivers as independent contractors....
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Lawsuit: Cops searched homes of poor blacks illegally without warrant,...
You read that right: No warrants, no probable cause. Imagine—you're eating dinner and, for no reason, police come barging in. When you protest, they threaten to arrest you—even though they are the...
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New Orleans is running a debtors' prison, new lawsuit claims
About 45 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in two separate cases that debtors' prisons were unconstitutional as a violation of the 14th Amendment. However, a new federal class-action lawsuit filed in...
View ArticleHouse GOP Votes to Bail out VW and Other Corporate Criminals
On Friday, the House passed the so-called Fairness in Class Action LitigationAct. And as is often the case, the bill actually has nothing to do with fairness, except for making the court system less...
View ArticleThe latest GOP effort to smear the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and...
House Republicans are holding a hearing Wednesday afternoon in their desperate search to undercut the entity that was created by Dodd-Frank to protect consumers from lenders: The Consumer Financial...
View ArticleGOP pushes bill inhibiting Americans from filing class-action lawsuits...
Donald Trump may have promised to put America first, but "Americans" apparently take a back seat to corporate interests. Trump's GOP colleagues on Capitol Hill are pushing a bill aimed at protecting...
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UPDATED State Dept. Out of Loop; EPA Minority Justice Head Quits - All TOO...
It’s all coming too fast and furious! I’m amazed that DC hasn’t imploded under all this news!! ;-( First, this breaking news that the State Dept. didn’t know the Mexican foreign minister was in...
View ArticleToday EpiPen's Mylan got hit with a class-action lawsuit for 'racketeering'...
Mylan pharmaceuticals has been under scrutiny for allegedly perpetrating a fraud in their misclassifications of the drugs they sell and the insanity with which they price gouge. The good news is they...
View ArticleLouisiana facing a class action lawsuit for not providing defendants adequate...
A collection of civil rights attorneys and a New York City law firm filed a class action lawsuit in February, hoping to change the racist and unconstitutional legal system in Louisiana.The Sixth and...
View ArticleWhile Democrats fight for consumers, Republicans fight for those trying to...
Who’s out there fighting for you? When you go to vote, and you have to choose between a Democrat and a Republican, ask yourself which one is going to fight harder for you. For essentially every...
View ArticleTarget to pay $3.7 million to settle suit alleging employment discrimination...
Target has agreed to reform its employment screening practices as part of a settlement resolving Equal Employment Opportunity Office complaints dating to 2006 and a potential class action suit. The...
View ArticleWorld Press Freedom Day: US Press Freedom Ranking Drops To 45th
May 3rd is World Press Freedom Day as declared by the United Nations.This year’s theme is “Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law”.Although this annual commemoration serves to...
View ArticleSo Gorsuch screwed us. What are our options?
By now we’ve all seen the bad news. Gorsuch, writing for a bitterly divided 5-4 majority, smashed a wrecking ball into employee rights today.So what do we do next? Pushing for legislation to undo this...
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