Minneapolis Business Lawyer

Many businesses seek to hire extra hands through the holiday season as a way to cope with the shopping rush. Typically, these employees are hired as “Independent Contractors” to insulate the company from the cost of benefits and responsibility for tax withholding, and there are usually further clauses designed to limit an employer’s liability for […]

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Oprah Winfrey has been named as the defendant in a defamation suit being filed in Pennsylvania by Nomvuyo Mzamane, the former headmistress of a girls’ school Winfrey opened in South Africa a few years ago. The suit concerns comments Winfrey made to the South African press following a sexual abuse scandal at the school. A […]

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Journalist Arthur Kent of Calgary, Alberta in Canada has revealed the details of his defamation lawsuit against CanWest Publishing Inc. Kent ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate earlier this year in Alberta’s provincial elections.
According to Kent, several CanWest news periodicals published an inaccurate, biased and damaging article, but refused to print his rebuttal. The article […]

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Harold Wilson, Jr, a court security officer for Madison County, IL, has settled his lawsuit against the city of Venice. According to the claim he filed in December 2007, the city distributed documents among workers at the Madison County Sheriff’s Department stating that Wilson could possibly be in police custody in Venice. These documents were […]

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Nationstar Mortgage LLC and Centex HomeEquity LLC are being sued by nearly two dozen home loan borrowers.  The plaintiffs claim that Nationstar and Centex forced them into bad loan situations that have resulted in numerous financial hardships and destroyed credit scores.
Additionally, the claim alleges that there were numerous violations of the Truth In Lending Act […]

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