A consumer antitrust lawsuit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for Hawaii seeks to stop the acquisition of the 95-year-old Hawaiian Airlines by Alaska Airlines on the grounds that the merger would result in higher fares, fewer flights, job losses, and cause injury to Hawaii’s economy.
In light of recent plea bargains for major violent defendants, Wichita County's lead prosecutor addressed resident's concerns and explained the purpose behind plea bargains in felony cases.
It’s not every day that a sitting lieutenant governor faces a criminal investigation, which makes the latest developments in Georgia awfully interesting. The Associated Press reported: If it seems as if this story has been percolating for a long while, it’s not your imagination. My MSNBC colleague Ja’han Jones noted last summer, for example, that Georgia’s Republican lieutenant governor had reportedly been identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2020 fake electors scheme, but a state...
Two internal whistleblowers at Faraday Future claim the troubled EV company has been lying about some of the few sales it has announced to date. They also claim founder Jia Yueting has “weaponized” the EV startup’s HR department to retaliate against anyone who speaks up about these alleged misrepresentations. The employees, Jose Guerrero and Victoria […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Three NYU professors are asking to be included as additional defendants in a November lawsuit accusing the university of mishandling antisemitic incidents on campus. The faculty say they are concerned that the definition of antisemitism adopted by NYU and outlined in the lawsuit — if taken as law by the court — could stifle academic This story 3 professors seek defendant status in antisemitism lawsuit against NYU appeared first on Washington Square News.
A 25-year-old woman involved in a fatal hit-and-run in Hilo over the weekend allegedly had a blood alcohol concentration more than three times the legal limit, according to the prosecuting attorney’s office.
The Chiefs' Rashee Rice and SMU's Teddy Knox are being sued in Texas for over $1 million in actual damages and $10 million in punitive damages for allegedly causing a six-vehicle crash March 30 in Dallas.
(The Center Square) – Environmental groups are suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for its denial of a petition to relist gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains as endangered or threatened. Gray wolves are currently listed under the Endangered Species Act as endangered in 44 states, while states maintain jurisdiction in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, as well as parts of Oregon, Washington and Utah. The Center for Biological Diversity, the Humane Society of the...
Donald Trump is already sharing "fake allegations about jurors" in his criminal hush money case, a former federal prosecutor said on Wednesday.Trump made history this week when he became the first former president to face criminal trial after jury selection began in the case accusing the ex-president of falsifying business records to hide an affair from the public ahead of the election. Before the fog has even settled on the jury selection, the former president is now coming directly for those...
A former California State Parks employee is seeking roughly $4 million in a lawsuit alleging the agency discriminated against him for his Mexican heritage, prevented him from moving up in the ranks and failed to accommodate a disability, describing the case as a wake-up call for entrenched racism among some top brass. Angel Alba, a former maintenance supervisor and worker at several state parks in Malibu, filed the suit in 2018 in Los Angeles County Superior Court against the agency and his...
Meta seeks to dismiss FTC's lawsuit, asserting that their acquisitions have only enhanced consumer choices and innovation.
Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook) this week filed a motion for summary judgment, seeking the dismissal of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) lawsuit aimed at unwinding the company's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.