Pipeline Company’s $70 Million Spill Settlement Gets Early Nod
A $70 million class action settlement between California property owners and the company that acquired a pipeline that ruptured in 2015 received preliminary approval from a federal judge.
Three Sister Tax Preparers Plead Guilty to $3 Million Tax Fraud
Three Rio Grande Valley, Texas, sisters have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to aid and assist in the preparation of filing fraudulent tax returns to the IRS, the Justice Department said ...
Massachusetts Property Qualifies for Agricultural Tax Category
A property owner convinced the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board that roughly one acre of land qualifies as agricultural for tax purposes because of the area’s active usage, according to an opinion ...
Legal Software Services Firm KLDiscovery to Restructure Debt
KLDiscovery Inc. reached an agreement in principle with lenders to restructure its debt, according to a Thursday statement.
New Jersey Top Court Wary of Verizon’s Effort to Escape Taxes
Three New Jersey Supreme Court justices seemed to doubt Verizon New Jersey Inc.‘s statutory interpretation during oral ...
Altec Lansing Speakers’ IP Owner Sees Counterfeiting Suit Tossed
AL Infinity LLC, which owns the trademark for Altec Lansing products, saw its four remaining causes of action against an alleged infringer dismissed because it didn’t show that the products in dispute ...
Audit Watchdog’s Work ‘Only Just Begun’ as it Logs Biggest Fine
The US audit regulator’s record fine for KPMG Netherlands in April is just the start of stepped-up enforcement against ...
White County Worker in Alabama Loses Race Discrimination Appeal
Jefferson County, Ala., defeated a fired employee’s bid to revive her lawsuit alleging she was denied a transfer or reassignment and terminated because she’s White.
New York Agency Followed Law When Approving Herbicide Permits
A New York state appellate panel says a lower court shouldn’t have invalidated permits issued by an upstate park agency because the agency had complied with statutory requirements when it approved the ...
Kuramo Capital Gets Congo Palm Oil Transaction ‘Unscrambled’
Kuramo Capital Management LLC affiliates won a court ruling unwinding the complex restructuring of their stake in a Congolese palm oil company over a business partner’s plot to seize control of their ...
First Lawsuit Hits 401(k) Fiduciary Rule Opposed by Wall Street
The US Labor Department’s new fiduciary rule drew its first legal challenge on Thursday, when the Federation of Americans for ...
Case: Wage & Hour/Exempt Employees (M.D. Pa.)
A Pennsylvania federal district court denied summary judgment to The Meadows on the claims of a housekeeping director that she was misclassified as exempt and therefore not properly paid for overtime ...