Legal News

UK Case Over Defamatory Statements on Website Finally Concludes With Highest Damage Award Ever
Following up on a post from last year, I note that Gentoo, which used to be the Sunderland Housing Group, has won a record 100,000 pounds damage award in an action over statements published by a website called DadsPlace after...

Libel, fraud and child trafficking
Or ‘On the Naughty Step…’ Thanks to Mark P for the idea, I bring you news of scandal and criminality from the world of housing, albeit with only the most tangential relationship to housing law...

Record payout for false imprisonment
Record payout for false imprisonmentGiven that the Home Office has agreed that £700,000 compensation should be awarded to Colin Stagg for a year in custody, surely that means Barry George should be entitled to at least £5...

RECORD U.K. INTERNET LIBEL CASE YIELDS $200,000 AWARD
An executive in the British property sector has been awarded record Internet libel damages by a British court in one of the first-ever cases regarding online harassment by a business rival in the U...

Win on Appeal for Craigslist Over Housing Discrimination Case
Craigslist won an appeal at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in a suit that charged the company with housing discrimination by allowing posters to submit ads for housing that were illegal under section 804(a) of the Fair Housing Act...

CNN Money: Beware the $7,500 Housing Tax Credit
CNN Money: Beware the $7,500 "Tax Credit", by Les Christie: Washington policy makers and housing industry insiders hope a new tax credit for first-time home buyers will get the moribund housing market moving again...

Driving Record Checks
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Fair Housing Act
Prevent discrimination by landlords

California Limited Liability Company Formation
Relevant information for starting a limited liability company in California

Stock Splits and Reverse Stock Splits
How splits can affect stock value

The Pasha Group
$13 million payout resolves bid-rigging and price-fixing lawsuit.

Settlement
Sears settles with disabled worker for record $6.2M

Healthcare Payout
Merge to pay $250,000 upon settling derivative lawsuit.

KB Home and Countrywide Financial Corp.
allegedly conspired with appraisers to boost housing prices as the market crashed.

MCM Construction
$6 million payout in banned, outdated vehicle use suit.

Onyx Waste Services
$650,000 payout in wrongful death lawsuit.