DENVER (Legal Newsline) - Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced on Wednesday that Colorado will receive $900,000 from a financial institution's banks that allegedly practiced deceptive lending practices as part of a $23.7 million multi-state settlement.
Several Jefferson County residents have filed a lawsuit to recover investments funds that were allegedly made based on false promises and material misrepresentations.
Claiming they were promised a 100 percent return on their investments, three local residents have filed a breach of contract suit against several developers of a proposed beach community.
A Texas company claims its bank has refused to release money for a $175,000 check it received from the corporation's insurance company after Hurricane Rita struck.
In my recent article "Take the Money and Run", I chronicled how would-be bank robbers were foiled by their failure to adhere to some pretty basic principles of their chosen career: show up when the bank is actually open, write a legible stick-up note, wear a disguise that actually works, and so forth.
Everingham MARSHALL -- An East Texas judge has dismissed several claims in a class action that the Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003 violates plaintiffs' constitutional rights.
As "Legally Speaking" readers know, I've delved into the issue of lawyers on their worst behavior before, in a series of columns entitled "Lawyers Behaving Badly."
MARSHALL -- Seeking to nullify the Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003,a class action suit filed in the Marshall court of the Eastern District of Texas argues that the state's limits on non-economic damages are unconstitutional.