LA woman slaps Equifax with class-action lawsuit for 143 million victims
Laptop computer, brand unknown. Photo via Pixabay A woman is suing credit reporting agency Equifax, alleging an inadequate security system led to the data breach in which the personal details of 143...
View ArticleSexy ‘Modern Family’ star Sofia Vergara ‘devastated’: Battle for frozen...
Sofia Vergara and Nick Loeb in Washington, DC at the pre-party for the White House Correspondents Dinner, 2014 (By Yahoo [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia...
View ArticleChris Farley fat bikes? Dead comedian’s reps not laughing in lawsuit
A 1990s promotional photo of Chris Farley for “Saturday Night Live.” Photo: Wikimedia Commons The corporation representing the property rights of the late comedian Chris Farley has sued Trek Bicycle...
View ArticleKids of Stone Temple Pilots lead singer file lawsuits over dead dad’s name
Scott Weiland. Photo by CRL (dedicato a te pikkola) at it.wikipedia (Transferred from it.wikipedia) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], from Wikimedia CommonsScott Weiland’s...
View ArticleAn ‘Old Hollywood’ legend feuds with FX: Court battle date moved up
The trial of Olivia de Havilland’s lawsuit against FX Networks over her portrayal in “Feud: Bette and Joan” will take place on Nov. 27, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Holly...
View ArticleJessica Biel’s beautiful WeHo restaurant sued by employees
By Maggie Jumps – Flickr Page, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1599065 Jessica Biel and her West Hollywood restaurant, Au Fudge, were sued Wednesday by workers who allege...
View ArticleLAUSD will pay more than $150 million in lawsuit resolution over missing...
Photo via pixabay The Los Angeles Unified School District will pay more than $150 million to 50 schools in primarily low-income areas to resolve a lawsuit accusing the district of misspending funds...
View ArticleStraight LA garbageman harassed with gay cartoons awarded $12 million
Photo via Pixabay. A Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation worker who alleged he endured harassment from supervisors who falsely perceived him to be homosexual has accepted a judge’s $5 million reduction of...
View ArticleJerry Brown, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Eagles: Fun times end in El...
Front entrance to Lucy’s El adobe in Hollywood. Photo by Loren Javier via Flicker In happier days, Jerry Brown met Linda Ronstadt there and Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, the Eagles and a Kennedy or two...
View ArticleFormer police chief sues Baldwin Park: Alleges harassment by officers
Photo via Pixabay A former Baldwin Park police chief, fired in April just 49 days after he was hired, alleges in a lawsuit that he was discriminated against because he is Latino and that he was asked...
View ArticleSex accusers forced into mental evaluations? Ex-NFL star court request
New Orleans Saints safety Darren Sharper speaks to media after the Saints practiced at Tulane University in 2011. Photo by Tulane University [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)],...
View ArticleChocolate battle in court: Morton Downey Jr.’s daughter cheated?
Tracey Downey-Racen. Photo: LinkedIn An Orange County chocolatier, who has named some of her recipes after her late father, television talk show host Morton Downey Jr., was cheated out of her share of...
View ArticleMan with toy gun dead, shot by LAPD, run over by police car; family sues
File photo by MyNewsLA.com The family of a man who was killed when he was shot by a Los Angeles police officer and run over by a squad car filed a federal lawsuit against the city Wednesday and also...
View ArticleKathy Griffin files request for restraining order against neighbor, head of...
Kathy Griffin by gdcgraphics [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsKathy Griffin has filed a request for a restraining order against her neighbor Jeffrey...
View ArticleSex with Usher lawsuit over genital herpes: Will judge order exam?
R&B singer Usher. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Three people who sued Usher, alleging the singer failed to disclose that he has genital herpes before having sex with them, want a judge to order an...
View ArticleJudge OKs Quincy Jones millions for ‘This is It,’ Michael Jackson projects
A judge Friday upheld a jury’s award of $9.4 million to Quincy Jones in his lawsuit against a company created by Michael Jackson before his death In its July 26 verdict, the panel found that the Grammy...
View ArticleEmployees over 50 years old ‘poor cultural fit’ at Facebook? Age...
Photo via Pixabay A 52-year-old former Facebook employee sued the social media platform Friday in Los Angeles, alleging he was fired in 2015 because of his age. Gary Glouner’s lawsuit alleges Facebook...
View ArticleWas Sumner Redstone a ‘shot caller?’ Ex-girlfriend’s $70 million question
Viacom’s Sumner Redstone in 2014. Photo via jewishbusinessnews.com An attorney for a former live-in companion of Sumner Redstone told a judge Monday he will seek another mental evaluation of the former...
View ArticleNew brain-injury beating at Dodger Stadium? Lawsuit sounds similar
Dodger Stadium. File Photo: Wikimedia Commons In the wake of a horrific parking lot beating, Dodger Stadium was supposed to be significantly safer for fans after the $2 billion sale of the team in 2012...
View ArticleSexy ‘Modern Family’ Sofia Vergara wins round in frozen ‘pre-embryo’ war with...
Sofia Vergara on the cover of Women’s Health magazine. Sexy “Modern Family” TV star Sofia Vergara can move forward with her lawsuit that seeks to stop her ex-fiance from using the frozen pre-embryos...
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