Here’s a bit of irony. More than 2,500 nurses who work as replacement staff for striking nurses during labor disputes, have won a nearly $1.8 million class settlement in a wage and hour dispute with the company that hired them.…
The same day Americans learned the NSA has been collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers, Justice Department lawyers in San Francisco sought to block release of records about its use of location-tracking technology in phones, known as Stingray.…
A federal judge stuck to his promise Tuesday of a tougher prison sentence for a conman than even the government sought. Michael “Ferrari Mike” Banuelos got six and one-half years in prison for running an investment scam that garnered him…
A federal judge tentatively approved a $3.5 million legal malpractice settlement payment by two law firms accused of misrepresenting a class of 2,000 retired professional football players in a suit over videogame licensing deals. U.S. District Judge William Alsup tentatively…
A California nursing home reform group lost its novel effort to push nursing home chains to limit management fees and increase funds for staffing. U.S. District Judge Jon Tiger ruled Monday that the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR)…
Corporate pollution crimes, for the Cosco Busan oil spill in San FranciscoBay to WalMart’s fine for dumping household toxics in sewers, will provide seed money for an $8.7 million Bay conservation fund. U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag announced last week that…
The NCAA’s licensing arm and gamemaker Electronic Arts attacked efforts by former college athletes Thursday to win class certification for their claims the NCAA violated their publicity rights and colluded not to pay them for use of their images. “Plaintiffs’…
Letters from victims of financial crime to sentencing judges do make a difference. A federal judge refused Tuesday, for a second time, to go along with the government’s deal of five years in prison for a man who claimed he…
[UPDATED] Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegal disposal of hazardous waste in three criminal cases in California and Missouri, agreeing to pay nearly $82 million in fines. A lawyer for the company showed up in federal court…
A California nursing home reform group has pursued a novel legal attack on the state and a nursing home chain saying patient care suffers when control of homes is turned over to management companies for exorbitant fees. But the argument…
President Obama nominated a Montana Supreme Court Justice and a state judge there to fill two vacancies on the federal bench in the Big Sky state. State Supreme Court Justice Brian Morris, 49, and Susan P. Watters, 54, were both…
A retired Contra Costa County deputy district attorney lost his effort to press claims his former bosses engaged in malicious prosecution on charges he raped a colleague. Michael Gressett sued the county and nearly a dozen individuals in 2012 alleging…
An antiwar website sued the FBI Tuesday claiming the agency spied on their online magazine, Antiwar.com, and the Libertarian editors of the site. The lawsuit demands the FBI produce records under the Freedom of Information Act and halt surveillance of…