If we said someone was after $500 billion, usually it would be a short bald dude in his volcano-shaped “evil lair” aiming a nuclear weapon at “Kerplakistan.” But straight from the news, an Oakland woman filed a $500-billion class-action lawsuit this week against two Hollywood actresses and dozens of other wealthy parents accused of paying […]
A battle has broken out over the lease of a prominent flagship store off Fifth Avenue in New York City. The landlords of the mixed-use building 15 West 55th Street, Salim “Solly” Assa and his partners, are trying to evict Domenico Vacca from the property’s commercial space, alleging that the Italian luxury retailer is in […]
Two decades is a long time to be in court. And according to sources, after 26 years of legal actions in Ecuador, the United States, Canada and Europe that failed to result in any significant cleanup effort of areas affected by crude oil spills, Ecuadorean authorities will start to clean up polluted areas to try […]
The Supreme Court recently wrestled with how to maintain a constitutional distance between church and state while preserving a 40-foot Latin cross on government property. By the end of the oral argument, it appeared the justices had found a way: By deciding that the “Peace Cross” in Bladensburg, Maryland, is essentially grandfathered in, but new […]