Roadrunner Transportation Services Inc. can keep a proposed class action claiming violations of California wage and hour laws in federal court, after the Ninth Circuit found Thursday more than $5 million at stake in the litigation.
The lower court imposed a presumption against removal under the Class Action Fairness Act when it shouldn’t have, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said. It reversed an order that would have returned the case to state court.
Although the lower court said “no antiremoval presumption attends cases invoking CAFA,” that statement was difficult to reconcile with other language in the ...
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A Raleigh professor has agreed to pay $152,500 to resolve allegedly false national science grant claims. According to the Department of Justice of ENC, Dr. Michael Harrington and his company, Geno...