Apr
4
United States Denied Motion To Dismiss Crop Loss Suit For Herbicide Crop Damage
April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment
POCATELLO, Idaho – A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho by a group of six Idaho farmers who allege reduced sugar beet, wheat and potato yields because of sulfonylureas herbicide drift from Bureau of Land Management land survived a defense motion to dismiss; the presiding judge denied the statute [...]
Jan
2
Parties Move To Dismiss All Claims In Auction-Rate Securities Suit
January 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
BOSTON – Shareholders and Deutsche Bank AG (DB) have agreed to resolve all outstanding disputes in a securities lawsuit alleging that DB wrongly invested more than $ 200 million in auction-rate securities, according to a Dec. 19 joint motion to dismiss filed by both parties in Massachusetts federal court (Akamai Technologies, et al. v. Deutsche [...]
Nov
1
Motion To Dismiss In Oppenheimer Securities Class Action Substantially Denied
November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment
DENVER – Lead plaintiffs in a multidistrict litigation have failed to plead their claim under Section 13(a) of the Investment Company Act, but have properly pleaded all other federal securities law claims, a federal judge in Colorado ruled Oct. 24 in substantially denying defendants’ motions to dismiss (In re Oppenheimer Rochester Funds Group Securities Litigation, [...]
Jun
8
119 Motions To Quash, Dismiss By Alleged File Sharers Denied In ‘Hurt Locker’ Case
June 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A District of Columbia federal judge on May 12 denied motions to quash discovery and to dismiss copyright infringement claims by 119 putative Doe defendants in a case concerning claims involving illegal online sharing and duplication of the film “The Hurt Locker” (Voltage Pictures LLC v. Does 1-5,000, No. 1:10-cv-00873, D. D.C.). [...]