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Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Comedian Iliza Shlesinger is facing a lawsuit for hosting a women-only comedy show last month. The attorney who filed the suit has a history of suing companies for gender discrimination on behalf of men. According to Variety, Shlesinger’s show may have violated a California law protecting “equal accommodations” in the state. Comedian […]
Published time: 28 Dec, 2017 20:22 A female comedian is reportedly being sued following allegations she refused to allow a man to attend her women-only show in Los Angeles – a case her accuser says is comparable to civil rights activist Rosa Parks in the 1950s. READ MORE: Hug it out? Americans divided over sexual […]
Three plaintiffs have filed a class action lawsuit against T-Mobile, Amazon, Cox and dozens of other large US employers, for allegedly excluding older workers from seeing job ads on Facebook’s paid advertising platform. Linda Bradley, Maurice Anscombe and Lura Callahan contend in their complaint that “hundreds of major American employers and employment agencies routinely exclude […]
Published time: 10 Dec, 2017 00:04 The Trump administration is being sued by an activist organization for allegedly allowing oil companies to dump waste from fracking and drilling into the Gulf of Mexico, without considering the detrimental effect it will have on marine life. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice of intent […]
Enlarge / Georgia voters at a voting machine during the US presidential election at the Athens-Clarke County Fleet building in Athens, Georgia on November 8, 2016. (credit: TAMI CHAPPELL/AFP/Getty Images) A server and its backups, believed to be key to a pending federal lawsuit filed against Georgia election officials, was thoroughly deleted according to e-mails […]
Thomson Reuters The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe sued Amazon and Microsoft for patent infringement. The lawsuit is part of a legal gambit in which the tribe acquired patents from SRC Labs, and then invoked its right to sovereign immunity, which could shield SRC and the tribe from counter-challenges. One federal judge invalidated a similar deal […]
Published time: 8 Oct, 2017 23:03 A 17-year student was suspended from her school in Houston, Texas, on Monday for not standing for the pledge of allegiance. Now, her family is suing the school district and the principal for violating her First Amendment rights. India Landry was in the principal’s office at Windfern High School […]
Apple gets sued for patent infringement dozens of times each year, mostly by little-known shell companies with no products—the types of companies often derided as “patent trolls.” But the newest lawsuit seeking royalty payments from iPad sales is likely a first: the recently created plaintiff, MEC Resources LLC, is wholly owned by a Native American tribe. The case had […]
San Francisco Embarcadero. (credit: David Yu) At least five California municipalities are suing five major oil companies, claiming in public nuisance lawsuits that the firms should pay for the infrastructure costs associated with rising sea levels due to climate change. The latest suits announced Wednesday by Oakland and San Francisco name BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, […]
Google’s salary practices are back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Three women who worked for the company are suing over gender-based wage discrimination. The plaintiffs claim Google knew about the pay inequalities (or, at least, should have been aware of them). The suit — filed on Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court […]
