A blind man sues McDonald's for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act after a personnel laughed at him for walking up to its drive-thru late at night.
Samsung Heir Lee Jae-Yong is arrested for bribing South Korea's president in exchange for the government's support to a merger and possibly his succession.
White House official Stephen Miller's "no judicial supremacy" statement caused a stir in the legal community with constitutional law experts reviewing the intent and consequences of the matter at hand.
Starbucks faced with lawsuit for allegedly violating provisions of Fair Credit Reporting Act by denying applicant from Colorado of his right to dispute accuracy of background check.
Ryanair is probably going to face a class action lawsuit for imposing unfair charges. The budget carrier claims, such charges are imposed to keep the tariff rate lower. Organizer of the online campaign expresses dissatisfaction over the carrier’s effort to remain cheap at the cost of consumers.
Bill Cosby has again delayed trial proceedings of sexually assault charges through lodging appeal with the US Supreme Court. The comedy actor has been able to get commitment from the D.A. of Montgomery County for not prosecuting him back in 2005. He has been repeatedly trying to quash the habeas corpus writ by dint of the commitment from the former D.A.
Former Disney Child star Cramer has been arrested on Sunday on suspicion of robbing a Canadian bank. RCMP has arrested him after a chase. He has been arrested on allegation of criminal offence for the second time since served sentence for six months in a check forgery case.
Justin Bieber is going to be sued for $100,000 for allegedly smashing up a mobile phone owned by Robert Earl Morgan. The smashing event takes place while the owner has been shooting the pop star’s beer bong chugging. Spotting the recording through mobile camera, the enraged pop singer has smashed the cell phone into pieces after snatching it from the owner’s hand.
Samsung and Nvidia have jointly announced on Monday reaching an agreement for settling all patent related disputes made by each other. The agreement will resolve all disputes pending with the US district courts, the US International Trade Commission and the US Patent Office. However, details of the agreement haven’t yet been disclosed by both parties.
Facebook has published its biennial transparency report detailing government agencies’ intervention to individual’s information on Thursday. At the same time, the social media site predicts for an end of such practice since promulgation of new Email Privacy Act. The act has been passed on the previous day by the House of Representatives.
Pfizer Inc. has agreed paying $784.6 million for the fraudulence committed by its Wyeth unit, according to a Justice Department announcement on Wednesday. Though the fraud has been committed three years before acquiring Wyeth, Pfizer intends to resolve past cases. However, the settlement brings $98.1 million from the recovered amount for the two whistleblowers who have unearthed the fraud and brought Wyeth to book.
An Oklahoma appeal court has ruled on March 24 that oral sex with unconscious counterpart doesn’t tantamount to rape. The appeal court judge in his unanimous ruling has declined to press forcible sodomy charges beyond statute language. However, the ruling has come under fire by the legal experts who have termed the concerned law as archaic.
The Tennessee governor has signed a controversial bill allowing mental health counselors to refuse treating patients based on religious belief. The bill is applicable only for the private practitioners and certain clauses have been inserted to safeguard the patients. However, the bill has witnessed much criticism since it allows counselors to deny treating the LGBT people.
The New York Attorney General’s office has announced reaching agreement with six ticket brokers violating concerned law. The office has so far collected $2.76 million in settlement since announcing investment in January in a view to offer fairer ticket market for the city dwellers.
Finally, Nkosana Makate has won a compensation lawsuit against his former employer Vodacom. The court instructs Africa’s largest mobile company to negotiate with Makate, paying a reasonable share generated from its ‘Please Call Me’ service. The service, an idea innovated by Makate, has been introduced by Vodacom in 2001 without providing him the promised revenue share.
President Obama’s administration has published new standards for Medicaid private insurance plans on Monday. The US Medicaid system costs around $500 billion a year and has been acknowledged as one of the major components for federal budget. Since the concerned laws are a decade old, revisions appear to be a call of time.
Rafael Nadal has confirmed on Monday that he has sued former French cabinet minister Roselyne Bachelot over her alleged comments on dope tests. Through filing the defamation suit, Nadal has been trying to uphold his athletic spirit and zero tolerance on use of performance enhancing drugs.
Executive vice president and provost for University of California in Berkeley has finally resigned from his administrative post. The resignation takes place following widespread criticism against his softer role in handling sexual harassment. However, he has cited personal ground behind his resignation.
Two South African Jews together with an interfaith group are suing The Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) in Cape Town for alleged gender discrimination. The plaintiffs claimed that the JBD prohibits women from singing at the annual Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony – due to the Orthodox practice of Kol Isha.
The Jayde Panayiotou murder case is postponed until May 3 for the purpose of having Legal Aid procure copies of the docket. Jayde’s husband, Christopher, along with two co-accused await trial almost a year after the abduction and murder of the popular schoolteacher last April 2015.
