The former co-director of Kabbalah Centre International plied a student with Vicodin and alcohol, then inappropriately touched her and tried to have sex with her, an attorney told a jury Tuesday.
The head of one of Madison Avenue’s biggest ad agencies is out of a job a week after he was hit with an explosive lawsuit accusing him of making crude and offensive comments about women, Jews and blacks.
A Jackson County jury has ordered a debt collection agency to cough up nearly $83 million to a woman it mistakenly pursued to collect a credit card debt of little more than $1,000.
San Francisco – A federal judge said two Starbucks customers may pursue a lawsuit accusing the coffee chain of cheating patrons by underfilling lattes.
In the continued legal battle between restaurateur Joey Allaham and Lincoln Square Synagogue, a judge last week denied the restaurateur’s request to vacate Rabbi Hershel Schachter’s June ruling against him.
New York – A Muslim police officer, who sued the New York Police Department over a policy limiting beards allowed for religious reasons, would face irreparable harm without protection from the courts, a judge said Wednesday as he ordered the city to reinstate the officer’s pay and benefits a day after he was suspended and…
DetailsA Manhattan judge took an ax to the $18 million a jury awarded to a beautiful Swedish intern in her sexual harassment and defamation lawsuit against real-life wolf of Wall Street Benjamin Wey.
When Rabbi Bernard “Barry” Freundel, a nationally recognized authority in Jewish law, and the longstanding rabbi of Georgetown Synagogue-Kesher Israel Congregation was arrested in October 2014 on charges of voyeurism, the news made national headlines and generated two proposed class action suits.
A judge on Monday ordered a federal commission to provide further justification for subjecting Jonathan Pollard to restrictive probation conditions following his release last month from prison after 30 years, Reuters reports.
Newark, NJ – A New Jersey nonprofit that was sued for offering to turn gays to heterosexuals has been ordered to close.
