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| Blue Buffalo Settles Lawsuit Alleging False Advertising |  | The makers of Blue Buffalo, a natural line of pet food, has reached a $32 million settlement of a lawsuit alleging mislabeling and false advertising. The pet food company claimed that it's products were free of poultry byproducts and didn't contain corn, wheat, soy, artificial flavors, colors of preservatives. However, testing revealed that the pet food did contain byproducts. The lawsuit was filed by consumers who said they spent more money on the product because it claimed to be byproduct free. Blue Buffalo, which denied wrongdoing, is offering refunds to individuals who purchased the pet food products.
Leada Gore, AL.com 02/20/2016    | | Read Article: AL.com |
| Erin Andrews Civil Trial Begins Today | | The negligence lawsuit filed FOX Sports reporter Erin Andrews against the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University, in which she's seeking $75 million, is set for a civil trial beginning Monday. In 2008 Andrews visited Nashville to cover a Vanderbilt University football game. In her lawsuit, filed two years later, Andrews accuses the hotel and others of allowing David Barrett, then 50, to book rooms next to hers, rig peepholes and film videos of her changing clothes. Court documents say Barrett then posted those videos on the Internet.
Stacey Barchenger, The Tennessean, USA Today 02/22/2016 | | Read Article: USA Today |
| Gun Maker Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit Over Newtown Shooting | | Lawyers for the company that made the rifle used to kill 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School are expected to ask a Connecticut judge to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by families of some of the massacre victims. Freedom Group, the Madison, North Carolina, parent company of AR-15 maker Bushmaster Firearms, is arguing that it is protected by a 2005 federal law that shields gun manufacturers from most lawsuits over criminal use of their products. The victims' attorneys say the lawsuit appears to be the first of its kind against a manufacturer to claim that exception. Bridgeport Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis is set to hear arguments Monday afternoon on Freedom Group's motion to dismiss.
Associated Press, Houston Chronicle 02/22/2016 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Former Marble Falls HS Football Player Sues District Over Brain Injury | | A former Marble Falls High School football player refiles a federal civil lawsuit against the district. Blake Ripple suffered a severe brain injury during a game and multiple other concussions during his time on the varsity football team from 2008-2010. According to the lawsuit, the head football coach and staff ignored doctor's orders for limited playtime and continued to pressure Blake to play in games and practice in spite of his head injury.
KEYE-TV, KEYE-TV 02/22/2016 | | Read Article: KEYE-TV |
| Nursing Home Wrongful Death Case Goes to Court Despite Arbitration Clause | | The son of a woman who was murdered by her roommate at a Massachusetts nursing home will have his lawsuit filed against the nursing home heard in court. Due to legal documents signed upon the elderly woman's entrance into the home, legal cases against the nursing home are forced into private arbitration. However, a Massachusetts state court has agreed to hear the case filed by the victim's son. The plaintiff's mother was found dead in her room in September 2009 having been strangled and suffocated by her 97-year-old roommate, who suffered from dementia and had been described as "at risk to harm herself or others."
Michael Corkery and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times 02/21/2016 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
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