Judge allows lawsuit over county officials' pay raises to move forward
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A judge today allowed a lawsuit over pay raises for county officials to move forward, despite efforts by attorneys to quash it. At a preliminary hearing, Judge Spencer Ludington...
View ArticleUPDATE 2-U.S. judge faults Uber, bans background check in NY lawsuit
NEW YORK, July 25 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday banned Uber Technologies Inc and its Chief Executive Travis Kalanick from using information from a background check on a passenger bringing a...
View ArticleJudge bans Uber use of background checks in NY lawsuit
NEW YORK, July 25 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday banned Uber Technologies Inc and its Chief Executive Travis Kalanick from using information obtained by an investigative firm in a background...
View ArticleJudge bans Uber background check in NY lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday banned Uber Technologies Inc and its Chief Executive Travis Kalanick from using information obtained in a background check of a plaintiff bringing a...
View ArticleBill Cosby drops lawsuit against accuser after judge says she could talk to...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby has dropped a lawsuit that demanded the accuser in his criminal case repay the money from their confidential 2006 court settlement. Cosby had sued Andrea Constand for...
View ArticleUS judge rejects $100M investors' lawsuit against Venezuela
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge on Friday rejected a $100 million investors' lawsuit against Venezuela in a case that included allegations of fraud, hints of an international criminal conspiracy and...
View ArticleProvidence Financial files for bankruptcy protection; investors out hundreds...
Providence Financial Investments, a Miami-based firm that took in millions in investors’ money in South Florida and across the nation, filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Southern District of...
View ArticleBrooklyn judge tosses $2 million lawsuit filed by ‘Booty Grabber’
A $2 million lawsuit filed by a Queens man who was dubbed “Carlos the Booty Grabber” was...
View ArticleBankruptcy judge says no to bonus package for Sports Authority execs
A bankruptcy judge nixed a multimillion-dollar bonus package for four top executives of Sports Authority, the athletic gear retailer that shut its doors for good over the weekend. “Quite frankly, I’m...
View ArticleDethroned Miss Florida USA to file $5 million lawsuit
For the first time since her Miss Florida USA 2017 crown was taken away, Genesis Davila will speak Monday about...
View ArticlePwC must face $1 bln MF Global lawsuit - U.S. judge
NEW YORK, Aug 5 (Reuters) - A federal judge has rejected PricewaterhouseCoopers' bid to dismiss a $1 billion lawsuit claiming that its bad accounting advice helped cause the October 2011 bankruptcy......
View ArticleLil Wayne's Lawsuit Against Universal Music Group Put On Hold
Reports emerged this week that Lil Wayne's lawsuit in a California federal district court against Universal Music Group (UMG) and SoundExchange will be put on hold until the resolution of his lawsuit...
View ArticleProvidence Financial files Chapter 7; hundreds of investors may lose millions
Providence Financial Investments, a Miami-based firm that took in millions in investors’ money in South Florida and across the nation, filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Southern District of...
View ArticleUber slapped by judge for hiring firm to dig up dirt on lawsuit plaintiff
Uber was banned from using information gathered by a secretive, CIA-linked research firm on the plaintiff who...
View ArticleJudge inclined to deny Trump's request to dismiss lawsuit
A federal judge said Friday that he is inclined to deny a request by Donald Trump's lawyers to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses the Republican presidential nominee of...
View ArticleThe Latest: Judge inclined to deny Trump request
The latest developments on Donald Trump's lawyers seeking to dismiss one of three lawsuits involving Trump University alleging the Republican presidential contender defrauded customers at the now...
View ArticleLawsuit over audits seeks $5B from PricewaterhouseCoopers
Jury selection is beginning in Miami for trial of a lawsuit seeking more than $5 billion in damages from the...
View ArticleGawker’s Denton Wins Short Halt to $140 Million Hogan Award
Gawker Media founder Nick Denton, seeking to stave off personal bankruptcy, won a reprieve of as long as 30 days from the $140 million jury verdict he lost in Hulk Hogan’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit....
View ArticleGawker’s Denton Tries Again to Halt $140 Million Court Judgment
Gawker Media founder Nick Denton, seeking to stave off personal bankruptcy, asked a Florida appeals court to temporarily block wrestler Hulk Hogan from collecting the $140 million jury verdict in an...
View ArticleJudge tentatively rejects bid to toss Trump University lawsuit
Republican U.S. Presidential Candidate Donald Trump takes to the stage to introduce his wife Melania at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday...
View ArticleSports Authority plans to pay top executives $2.85 million in bankruptcy bonuses
Sports Authority’s creditors and the Justice Department have challenged the fading retailer’s plans to pay top executives as much as $2.85 million in bankruptcy bonuses. Once an operator of 460...
View ArticleJudge shrinks Madoff trustee's $905M suit versus firm
Irving Picard cannot recover alleged improper transfers made before 2001. ......
View ArticlePwC must face $1 billion MF Global malpractice lawsuit: U.S. judge
By Jonathan Stempel PwC must face $1 billion MF Global malpractice lawsuit: U.S. judge Advertisment of Gallery: Facebook icon Twitter icon Pinterest Mail icon NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge...
View ArticleLargest lawsuit against an auditor goes to court for $5.5 billion
The largest-ever lawsuit against an auditing firm is set to open Monday in a Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, pitting Big Four firm PwC against a trustee of the defunct Taylor, Bean & Whitaker...
View ArticleJudge fines foreclosure law firm $1.8 million for bogus billings
A Denver judge has fined one of the city’s prolific foreclosure attorneys $1.8 million for running a scheme in which thousands of consumers facing the loss of their homes were charged for title...
View ArticleJudge shrinks Madoff trustee $905 mln lawsuit vs Florida firm
NEW YORK, July 21 (Reuters) - A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday narrowed a $905 million lawsuit filed by the trustee seeking money for Bernard Madoff's victims against executives who ran a......
View ArticleJudge shrinks Madoff trustee $905 million lawsuit versus Florida firm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday narrowed a $905 million lawsuit filed by the trustee seeking money for Bernard Madoff's victims against executives who ran a now-defunct...
View ArticleBankrupt teen retailer Aeropostale is thinking of selling to a private equity...
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Aeropostale Inc has been negotiating a potential sale to private equity firm Versa Capital Management LLC that would save thousands of jobs at the bankrupt U.S. teen retail...
View ArticleAccounting firm on trial for audit misses
MIAMI -- Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers squared off Tuesday in court with lawyers for a defunct mortgage company's creditors and investors over a $5.5 billion lawsuit that claimed the firm...
View ArticleFlorida jury to decide if auditor should have caught crisis-era fraud
By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - A state court jury in Florida heard opening statements on Tuesday in a civil trial in which it will have to decide whether auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers is...
View ArticleU.S. judge dismisses lawsuit against Twitter over Islamic State rhetoric
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc won a bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the widow of an American killed in Jordan which accused the social media company of giving voice to Islamic State, a...
View ArticleFive ex-Madoff employees lose new bid to void convictions
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a new bid by five former employees of Bernard Madoff's firm to overturn their convictions for helping their boss conceal his Ponzi......
View ArticleLawsuit over audits seeks $5.5B from PricewaterhouseCoopers
Accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers squared off Tuesday in court with lawyers for a defunct mortgage company's creditors and investors over a $5.5 billion lawsuit, which claimed the Big Four firm...
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