The nation’s immigration-court backlog swelled by more than a million cases in 2023, rising from 1.9 million cases in September 2022 to surpass 3 million cases in November, Lauren Villagran reports for USA Today. There are now more immigrants in the U.S. with a pending immigration case than people living in Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city, with judges grappling with caseloads of more than 4,000 each. There were 734 immigration judges on the bench in October, up from 517 … Read the rest
Deutsche Bank has reached a $ 75 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by women who claimed they were victims of sexual abuse by financier Jeffrey Epstein, Jonathan Stempel reports for Reuters. The settlement resolves a proposed class action and accusations that the German bank facilitated Epstein’s sex trafficking. Epstein, a former client of Deutsche Bank, died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges. The settlement still needs approval by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff. Similar … Read the rest
As we recently reported, California juries continue to award massive verdicts to employees with alarming regularity. And, just in time for the holidays, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury upped the ante on Thursday, handing a fired insurance company executive a verdict totaling $ 155.4 million – including $ 150 million in punitive damages.
Plaintiff Andrew Rudnicki worked for Farmers Insurance Exchange as a senior executive and lawyer in its Claims Litigation division. Farmers claimed it terminated Rudnicki’s employment after he … Read the rest
IPNews® – On October 28th, 2021, Facebook filed a trademark application for ‘META’ as part of its rebranding.
Shortly after the announcement of the rebranding, though, an Arizona startup company claimed they already had rights to the meta trademark. Meta PC is an LLC that filed a trademark application in August 2021, and its filing states they’ve used “Meta” in commerce since at least November 2020. To continue reading, click: Startup Seeks $ 20 Million To Let Facebook Use ‘META’ … Read the rest