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| $7 Million Verdict In Sex Abuse Lawsuit Against Boy Scouts | | 
| | Superior Court jury handed up a $7 million verdict against the Boy Scouts of America on Friday, finding that the organization was liable for sexual abuse committed by a scout leader in New Fairfield in the 1970s. Court records show that the jury found the national organization both negligent and reckless in its failure to take steps to protect the plaintiff from repeated abuse at the hands of his scoutmaster. The jury awarded the plaintiff — identified only as "John Doe" in court records — $7 million in compensatory damages, with punitive damages to be determined by the court at a later hearing. Court records show that the jury found the national organization both negligent and reckless in its failure to take steps to protect the plaintiff from repeated abuse at the hands of his scoutmaster. The jury awarded the plaintiff — identified only as "John Doe" in court records — $7 million in compensatory damages, with punitive damages to be determined by the court at a later hearing.
Kelly Glista, Hartford Courant 12/16/2014    | | Read Article: Hartford Courant |
| Judge Allows 'Angry Birds' Licensing Lawsuit to Proceed | |
| | A U.S. judge says that an intellectual property lawsuit filed by a designer of "Angry Birds" toys can continue. According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff "was cheated out of possibly millions of dollars from the sale of "Angry Birds" pet toys she designed" when pet toy maker Hartz Mountain Corp cut her out of an agreement. The plaintiff had been asked by the company in 2006 to design the toys and had entered into a five-year licensing agreement with the company. The lawsuit alleges that the company breached it contract with the plaintiff when it entered into a deal with mobile games maker Rovio to begin selling a line of pet toys.
Eric M. Johnson, Reuters 12/17/2014 | | Read Article: Reuters |
| GM Customers Demand Payment for ‘Callous Cover-Up’ of Defect | |
| | In their first formal demand to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber, customers said GM left defective cars on the market long after it knew they were dangerous. The automaker must be made to pay for its “callous cover-up” and the collapse of prices after belated recalls this year, they said today in court papers in Manhattan. They asked the judge to lift a ban on a $10 billion suit now pending in another court. By law, Gerber’s orders from the carmaker’s five-year-old bankruptcy don’t apply to anyone who wasn’t told to put in a claim at the time, they said.
Linda Sandler, Bloomberg 12/17/2014 | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
| Former Sony Employees File Suit Over Email Leaks | |
| | Lawyers representing two former Sony Pictures employees filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles. The 45-page complaint on behalf of former and current employees alleges that the Culver City studio was negligent by ignoring warnings that its computer system was prone to attack. Sony “failed to secure its computer systems, servers and databases, despite weaknesses that it has known about for years" and "subsequently failed to timely protect confidential information of its current and former employees from law-breaking hackers," according to the complaint filed late Monday by a Seattle law firm.
SABA HAMEDY & MEG JAMES, LA Times 12/17/2014 | | Read Article: LA Times |
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