Legal Case Summary

The customers, Charles Ellison and Susan Bresler represented by the Atlanta law firm Strickland Brockington & Lewis sued the Natural Gas Company “under a private right of action in the Gas Act.” The plaintiffs sought to recoup their overpayments charged through the defendant’s violations of the Natural Gas Competition and Deregulation Act (Natural Gas Act). The defendant asked the court to dismiss the case due to the plaintiff’s failure to establish a reasonable claim on which repayment should be given. A trial court granted a motion to dismiss the case, but an

The citizen suit provision of the Clean Water Act is an important tool to protect and improve rivers, creeks, streams, and wetlands especially as state agencies may not have the resources to conduct regular water quality monitoring on every water body. Citizen involvement in monitoring and reporting pollution problems is key to watershed protection; hereby helping the government enforce the laws.

Erin Brokovich was presented with a check for $2 million for all her efforts, and continues to work on cases involving peoples who have been victimized by large corporations.

Schlichtmann ended up settling with W.R. Grace for 8 million dollars. After all debts are paid (all of the equipment that was rented, the Dr.’s that ran the tests, the scientist’s, etc.) and the fee for Schlichtmann’s firm, the families were awarded $357,000 per family! This made the families very upset. Not because of the amount of the

The plaintiff (Southern Prestige Industries, Inc.) initiated an action against the defendant (Independence Plating Corp.) in a North Carolina state court for a breach of contract. The plaintiff alleged that defects in the defendant’s anodizing process caused the plaintiff’s machine parts to be rejected by Kidde Aerospace. The defendant being a New Jersey corporation and having its only office and all of its personnel situated in the state filed a motion to dismiss citing lack of personal jurisdiction. The trial court denied the motion and the defendant appealed arguing that there were insufficient contacts to satisfy the due process of law requirements

The issue is whether the appelles, Avanell Looney and Rita Alexander, had acted for or on behalf of J&R Construction at the time of signing the contract.

First, the Mississippi case has somewhat damaged our company’s image and may portray us as a company that does not honor legal agreements. Not only was a contract broken that brought the case originally, but so was the settlement as a number of the “subject to” provisions were not met. If this be the case, then it could stand to reason that we may be viewed as untrustworthy in other agreements. Being that

This meeting took place on February 14, 2018 at 7:00 pm at the Martin County Governmental Center, Commissioners' Boardroom at 305 East Main Street, Williamston, North Carolina. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Butch Lilley, the pledge of allegiance was led by commissioner Joe Ayers and the invocation was provided by commissioner Ronnie Smith. There were (2) other board members, the county manager and attorney, clerk to the board and the finance director/deputy clerk, other elected officials and residents of the county were also present.

Young argued that the firm had a conflict of interest when it continued to represent other employees of Young’s employer, and when their settlement included a rule barring the firm from suing the employer in the future. Young believed that the firm had waited to pursue her case until its other case was settled. The jury determined that Becker & Poliakoff knew that the case had been dismissed, but withheld that information from Young so they could settle the other case and secure the $2.9 million fee and cost reimbursement in that case. The jury returned a verdict for Young of $394,000 in compensatory damages as a result of Becker & Poliakoff’s breach of fiduciary duty. The total compensatory damages consisted of $144,000 in past lost wages and $250,000 in damages for

Plaintiff claims false arrest and malicious prosecution. Plaintiff states he was arrested for criminal possession of marijuana however no marijuana was recovered. PO Hernandez, PO Bonet, and PO Heredia were members of the anti-crime in PSA 6. Officers observed via Viper camera plaintiff and two other apprehended individuals smoking marijuana in the park behind a housing project. Officers approached plaintiff and two individuals and conducted a stop and frisk. Officers did not recover any contraband or marijuana was recovered. Plaintiff and the two individuals were transported to the precinct where a bag of marijuana was recovered during a search at the precinct. Officers could not determine ownership of the marijuana therefore all three were

Because these two judges were being greedy they are serving time in Federal Prisons. Jude Mike Conahan is only serving years for the money laundering crime because he accepted a plea deal. His partner, who felt betrayed about Conahan’s deal is serving 28 years in federal prison for 28 years for money laundering and bribery.

Consequently, in order to resolve the coal ash spill, Duke Energy was first ordered to pay fines amounting to $102 million, $34 million of it being dedicated to environmental projects to benefits wetlands in North Carolina and Virginia (EPA, 2015). The EPA, along with NC and VA state environment agencies, will oversee the cleanup of the Dan River coal ash spill which Duke Energy will be responsible for executing. Once cleanup has been completed, the EPA will assess if there is other contamination that needs to be addressed. All of this activity will be at the expense of Duke Energy.

For the external auditors, two Grant Thorton auditors received 18-month prison sentences. Grant Thorton and Delloite later agreed to pay total of $15 million to settle lawsuits against them by those suffered loss on securities investment.

As settlement, investors will receive $245 million to settle the charges with the Global Crossing executives’ fraud. In addition, according to the Ohio general office, former employees will receive $79 million for the loss of the purchase of company stock for their pension and retirement plans. $195 million will

In 2015, the Environmental Law Foundation filed a lawsuit against the Central Coast Regional Water Control Board for keeping pollution information hidden from farmers in violation of the California