lawsuit - Page 16

It took almost a year, but on Friday, the family of Kevin Ward Jr. filed a wrongful death lawsuit Friday against NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Tony Stewart for striking Ward with his car last August 9 at Canandaigua Motorsports Park.

The surgeon who presided over an operation that ultimately left comedian Joan Rivers dead took photos of her as she lay unconscious in the operating table, according to court documents from her daughter’s wrongful death lawsuit.

Rapper 50 Cent, whose legal name is Curtis Jackson, is about to dole out a lot more than 50 cents after a court found him guilty of releasing video of a sexual encounter featuring a woman without her consent.

The NAACP’s national office is attacking its own Cincinnati branch, accusing it of trademark infringement and deceptive acts under Ohio law.

Forget her feud with Taylor Swift; pop singer Katy Perry is now set for a legal battle with a group of nuns.

Jennifer Lopez may have built a career around her famous backside, but that booty may have landed her in some serious legal trouble after a televised concert in Morocco drew the ire of Islamist members of the ruling Justice and Development Party and at least one educational group.

The president of Venezuela’s National Assembly–the Venezuelan government’s second-in-command–has announced he will seek to take legal action in the United States and Spain against media outlets that have published reports alleging that he is being investigated for running a cocaine trafficking organization.

A federal judge’s decision to reopen a lawsuit brought on by Judicial Watch—in which the group asked for access to Hillary Clinton’s emails while she was Secretary of State—cannot be a good sign for the former First Lady’s presidential campaign.

A Ukrainian woman named Kristina Caro has filed a lawsuit against actress Mila Kunis alleging she stole her pet chicken 25 years ago.

Alongside the widow of Turner & Hooch producer Raymond Wagner and a specialized accounting service, actor Richard Dreyfuss has filed a lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company regarding profit payouts for the films What About Bob? and Turner and Hooch.

A Denton County, Texas judge has once again tossed out a ruling by the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC) against Empower Texans President Michael Quinn Sullivan that claimed that he had improperly failed to register as a lobbyist. The court’s ruling, affirmed the previous dismissal of the case by another Denton County judge, 158th District Court Judge Steve Burgess, finding that the TEC’s actions against Sullivan violated the Citizen’s Participation Act.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has agreed to pay $335,000 to a former employee to settle a lawsuit she brought against the school after facing what she claimed was retaliation for whistleblowing on lax academic standards for athletes.

Former 49ers defensive lineman Ray McDonald was expected to file a lawsuit on Monday suing the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her on December 13.

Civil lawsuit filings are down 17 percent in Texas over the last 10 years. Although Texas lawyers put forth a variety of reasons for the drop, the consensus is that tort reform is responsible. The bad news, some say, is that medical malpractice cases have all but been annihilated. W. Mark Lanier of The Lanier Law Firm, says that the majority of medical malpractice cases that should be litigated have to be turned away because of the legal caps on non-economic damages.

Vatican spokesman Father Tom Rosica had his lawyers send a letter threatening to sue a Catholic blogger in Canada for the man’s ongoing criticism of Rosica and his influence on the Extraordinary Synod of Catholic Bishops last fall in Rome. But now, after considerable media attention, Father Rosica has backed off and says he never really meant it.

Your kiss may be on their list, but don’t mess with the Hall and Oats brand… they can’t go for that. Dynamic pop-soul duo Hall and Oats is suing a New York-based food company for trademark infringement, claiming Early Bird

Nina Pham, the first of two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas who contracted the Ebola virus from Thomas Eric Duncan, has filed a lawsuit against the hospital’s parent company, Texas Health Resources (THR). Her lawsuit reveals for the first time troubling allegations about a long list of safety failures and undue risks committed by a hospital desperate to protect its image. “When Nina needed THR the most, THR failed her, despite the fact that THR wanted to sell her to the public as the face of the company,” says the complaint.

The founder of the hot yoga empire, Bikram Choudhury, has been accused of sexual assault by six women who allege he sexually harassed, groped, or raped them over the years.

A woman in California filed a class action lawsuit Thursday, citing Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James and a British sex toy company as defendants, claiming she purchased company branded erotic lubricant that failed to deliver her an “enhanced orgasm.”

Collin County District Court Judge Jill Willis ruled that the members of a small Orthodox Jewish community, the Far North Dallas Congregation of Toras Chaim, have the right to continue meeting in a Plano home for private worship. She made the decision on Wednesday, February 4, 2014.

Fox News has released a statement Tuesday responding to the news that Lindsay and Dina Lohan are filing a defamation suit against the cable news network for remarks made on “Hannity” a year ago: We will defend this case to the

Actress Lindsay Lohan and her mother Dina filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against Fox News over a guest’s comment for which the cable news channel apologized nearly a year ago.

A new settlement will require California elementary school kids to take gym classes.

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge in Austin has ruled that Texas regulations that prohibited African-style hair braiders from teaching their skills unless they complied with all the requirements of barber schools are unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process protections.

They were warned.

In light of recent allegations of racist and anti-Semitic remarks from American-based beauty company Revlon’s Italian-born CEO Lorenzo Delpani, Breitbart News reached out to the organization’s public relations team in an attempt to gauge a response from the organization’s majority shareholder, Ronald Perelman.

Lorenzo Delpani, the Italian-born CEO of United States-based cosmetics company Revlon, allegedly believes Americans are “dirty” and “small-minded,” that “Jews stick together,” and that he has the ability to “smell a black person” upon entering a room, according to a lawsuit.

Sony has now threatened Twitter with legal action if the popular social networking site does not put an end to the circulation of its stolen material through user tweets, according to a new report.

AUSTIN, Texas — During its last session nearly two years ago, the Texas Legislature passed groundbreaking reforms to allow the state’s craft breweries greater freedom to operate. But thanks to a little-noticed provision slipped into the bill, that freedom may