Phil Law Weblog

The discrimination charges against the Carolyn’s Old West Cafe heads for a settlement. The federal court has signed a settlement order to the lawsuit involving a pregnant lady. The cafe is ordered to pay $20,000 to settle the lawsuit.

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit finally acted on the long-stalled warrantless wiretapping lawsuit, Hepting v. AT&T. In a two-sentence opinion (PDF) released today the court has finally acted to the controversial FISA Amendments Act (FIAA) signed into law last month.

In the first lawsuit of its kind, a Virginia resident has filed a lawsuit against the maker of the diabetes drug called Byetta. The lawsuit charges that the drug maker has failed to adequately test and monitor the side effects of Byetta.

Finally a lawsuit settlement that is likely to bring smile in faces of the thousands of brain injury patients in America. In a breakthrough lawsuit settlement of its kind, the brain injury patients will get a chance to step out of the hospital to live in a separate community of their own made by themselves

In a major lawsuit of its kind, three immigrants from Iraq are given the citizenship status in US District Court. All three has filed the lawsuit challenging the delay in the citizenship procedure that takes three year to complete. The preliminary settlement reached Monday in U.S. District Court before Judge Marsha Pechman.

The Tremont Financial LLC has agreed to go for a settlement in the payday lender class action lawsuit with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School students and the school’s Consumer Law Litigation Clinic. The class action was brought against Tremont Financial for violating certain provisions of Wisconsin’s Consumer Act and other common law provisions. Tremont [...]

The Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, has finally approved the settlement of the Class Action between the Ford Focus and the California owners. The settlement will provide reimbursement to California owners and lessees of the 2000 and 2001 Ford Focus for front brake repairs. Under the settlement, the Ford is will make full [...]

At least 1000 workers of the Service Employees International Union, have filed a class action lawsuit against the Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for ordering 10,000 layoffs. The lawsuit was filed in the Sacramento County Superior Court. The lawsuit is viewed as the criticism of the decision mounted and Californians began to feel the effect [...]

The Jasper County Public Administrator Rita Hunter, faces a class action lawsuit. The class action accuses that Hunter was careless in obtaining guardianship and conservator-ship, and that she charged the woman about $4,500 for her services. The class action also says that Hunter has increased about 400 percent over those charged by her predecessor. Hunter [...]

The Seattle SuperSonics authority said that the lawsuit brought by the season ticket holders can not attain the status of class action lawsuit. The basket ball group says that the Seattle fans who bought season tickets had too many different motivations for their purchases to be considered a single group.