Walmart will pay $5.6 million to settle a California consumer protection lawsuit alleging the retailer overcharged customers and sold products that weighed less than stated on their labels. The case involved items such as produce, baked goods, and other prepared foods. The case was brought by the district attorneys of... Read More »
Kroger and C&S Wholesale Grocers have resolved a lawsuit C&S filed earlier this year seeking a $125 million termination fee connected to Kroger’s unsuccessful attempt to merge with Albertsons. The settlement was disclosed in a joint filing on Friday in Delaware Superior Court. The filing stated that all claims in... Read More »
Tory Lanez has suffered another legal setback in his ongoing fight to overturn his conviction for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in July 2020. A California appellate court on Tuesday rejected two habeas corpus petitions filed by the rapper, born Daystar Peterson, ruling that his claims failed to meet the legal... Read More »
President Donald Trump has taken control of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department and ordered the deployment of the National Guard under a provision of the District’s Home Rule Act that no president has previously used. He issued the order on Monday, and by Tuesday, August 12, National Guard personnel... Read More »
The family of a passenger killed in the January 29 collision between American Eagle Flight 5342, operated by PSA Airlines, and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C., has filed a federal tort claim seeking $200 million in damages. The crash, which sent both aircraft into the Potomac... Read More »
A civil lawsuit accusing music producer Metro Boomin of raping a woman in a Beverly Hills hotel nearly a decade ago will proceed to trial next month after attempts to resolve the case through mediation collapsed. Court records filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of... Read More »
The long-delayed double murder retrial of rapper YNW Melly will not take place until January 2027, nearly eight years after his initial arrest. The Broward State Attorney’s Office confirmed the new date to Rolling Stone this week, citing ongoing disputes over which pieces of evidence will be allowed at trial.... Read More »
A federal judge in Maryland late Thursday barred the Trump administration from enforcing its executive order denying citizenship to certain U.S.-born children, marking the fourth nationwide block against the policy since a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a preliminary injunction preventing the... Read More »
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has directed the U.S. Department of Commerce to begin work on a new national census that would exclude undocumented immigrants from the population count, a move that would mark a major break from long-standing census practices and set the stage for significant legal... Read More »
A federal judge has ordered Florida to stop construction at a controversial immigration detention center in the Everglades for 14 days, siding temporarily with environmental groups who warn that the project could damage sensitive wetlands and threaten endangered species. Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the U.S. District Court in Miami... Read More »
