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Nader sued GM for invasion of privacy, settling the case for $425,000 and using the proceeds to found the activist organization known as the Center for the Study of Responsive Law. A year following the publication of Unsafe at Any Speed, Congress unanimously enacted the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act.
Current and former Walmart employees are still fighting the company in multiple equal pay lawsuits around the country. Huang, Gamba, Ellis, Muenchow, and many of the plaintiffs in the latest spate of equal pay cases are not minimum-wage earners at big-box stores.
In her lawsuit against Google, Kelly Ellis says that she may never catch up to male colleagues after being paid less early in her career. “I was really unhappy and frustrated and annoyed,” Ellis said by phone from the Bay Area. After six months, she asked for a promotion.
U.S. District Judge Paul Borman dismissed the lawsuit in July, and GM is appealing the decision. The lawsuit filed Monday provides new details about one of the more explosive allegations GM has leveled in recent weeks: that Fiat Chrysler executives and UAW leaders used secret offshore bank accounts to hide millions of dollars in bribes.
Detroit — General Motors Co. is suing a former company director to recoup money embezzled in what it called a criminal scheme that saddled the Detroit automaker with billions of dollars in increased labor costs.
The Fiat Chrysler lawsuit, meanwhile, seeks to revive a part of the original racketeering lawsuit that was dismissed this summer. GM wants Fiat Chrysler to pay billions of dollars in damages for bribing UAW officials and corrupting a collective bargaining process that left GM paying higher labor costs.
He was convicted of participating in a conspiracy designed to wring concessions from the UAW by funneling money and illegal gifts to labor leaders . Iacobelli also spent worker training funds on a Ferrari, bejeweled pens and a backyard pool. Iacobelli's lawyer could not be reached for comment immediately Tuesday.
While serving on GM's board, Ashton also participated in a scheme to help Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV force a merger, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in New Jersey." Ashton's lawyer could not be reached for comment immediately Tuesday.
Late last year, GM sued Fiat Chrysler in federal court, accusing the late CEO Sergio Marchionne of orchestrating a bribery conspiracy to corrupt three rounds of bargaining with the UAW. GM said it lost "billions" from the arrangement, while Fiat Chrysler called the allegations "meritless" and sought to dismiss the case.
Ashton served on the board from 2014 until The Detroit News revealed he was under federal investigation in November 2017. Late last year, he pleaded guilty for his role in a union bribery and kickback scandal and is awaiting a prison sentence as one of the highest-ranking UAW officials convicted in the years-long scandal.
In what was the first of its kind in the U.K., Siddiqui sued his parents to make them continue to pay his maintenance while arguing he became dependent on the money.
Siddiqui, who graduated from Oxford University, last worked in 2011 having previously practiced law at prestigious firms Burgess Salmon and Field Fisher Waterhouse and worked as a tax adviser at major accountancy firm EY, reported The Times.
In the 1990s, as Mississippi's attorney general, Mike Moore launched a lawsuit against 13 tobacco companies that eventually resulted in a $246 billion, 50-state settlement. His state lawsuit had become a swarm of suits backed by dozens of states and elite private attorneys, and then a victory that Moore proudly called the "most historic public health achievement in history."
Chip Robertson, a former chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court , said that many have tried to do what Moore is doing and given up. "Mike's not afraid of anybody because Mike believes that he's doing the right thing," said Robertson. A veteran of Moore's winning fight against Big Tobacco, he has now joined Moore's team ...
The lawsuit, which represents 3,000 other women who worked or currently work at the company, accuses the firm of systematically paying women less than men for doing the same work, a form of gender discrimination under the Civil Rights Act. “I just knew I wasn’t going to get promoted anymore.
She is arguing that Microsoft has created a hostile culture toward women.
The other way to challenge the pay gap is through Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which outlaws job discrimination based on sex, race, religion, and nationality. Underpaying women because of their sex is a form of gender discrimination, and it’s generally easier to prove than discrimination under the Equal Pay Act.
The judges’ decisions in the Microsoft and Twitter cases reflect the legal difficulties women face. There are two main ways women can challenge pay discrimination in federal court, and neither path is easy.
She does, however, have to prove that the reason she was paid less or treated differently was because of her gender or race — a requirement that doesn’t exist under the Equal Pay Act. When women take their cases to court under either law, the chances of getting their claims before a jury are low.
One of the main reasons the pay gap is so persistent, according to experts, is the routine practice of asking job applicants about their salary history.
The complaint turned into a class action lawsuit that Home Depot settled for $87.5 million in 1998. The company reformed its pay and promotion practices, which has put more women in management positions, Dermody says.
In August, a judge ruled in Howard's favor and awarded him a $750,000 judgment.
Kevin Howard, seen here with his attorney, won a $750,000 judgment against another man for alienation of affection, stealing his wife away. WTIN. A North Carolina husband sued the man he said was having an affair with his wife — and won a $750,000 judgment. Robert Kevin Howard said the tryst between his wife and her lover began in December 2016, ...
Minyvonne Burke is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.
After learning of the rendezvous, Howard confronted his wife about it and she admitted to cheating. She then asked him for a divorce, according to court documents.
Ralph Nader is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes.
The son of Lebanese immigrants to the United States, Nader attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He first came to prominence in 1965 with t…
Ralph Nader was born on February 27, 1934, in Winsted, Connecticut, to Rose (née Bouziane) and Nathra Nader, both of whom were immigrants from Lebanon. After settling in Connecticut, Nathra Nader worked in a textile mill before opening a bakery and restaurant. Ralph Nader occasionally helped at his father's restaurant, as well as worked as a newspaper delivery boy for the local paper, the Winsted Register Citizen. Nader graduated from The Gilbert School in 1951, going on t…
Nader was raised in the Maronite Catholic Church. His siblings are Laura (a professor of social and cultural anthropology at U.C. Berkeley), Claire, and late brother Shafeek.
Nader defines his ideology not as left-wing or right-wing but as a "moral empiricist".
He has lived in Washington DC since the 1960s, but is domiciled in Connecticut, where he is registered to vote.
In the 2005 Jim Carrey film Fun with Dick and Jane, Nader makes a cameo appearance as himself.
The Steve Skrovan documentary film An Unreasonable Man is about the life of Ralph Nader and uses both archival footage and original interviews. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006.
Nader was featured on the cover of the January 22, 1968, issue of Newsweek; the December 12, …
• The Case Against Free Trade
• Corporate welfare, a term coined by Nader
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2. ^ "Ralph Nader's new museum is a monument to beating corporations in the courtroom". October 28, 2015.
3. ^ Warren Weaver Jr. Special to The New York Times. A Dozen Dissidents Criticize the President and the Government in ‘the People's State of the Union’. The New York Ti…
1. ^ "Ralph Nader Biography and Interview". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
2. ^ "Ralph Nader's new museum is a monument to beating corporations in the courtroom". October 28, 2015.
3. ^ Warren Weaver Jr. Special to The New York Times. A Dozen Dissidents Criticize the President and the Government in ‘the People's State of the Union’. The New York Times. Jan. 26, 1972.