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Carnival wants Miami court to toss Triumph-related passenger lawsuits
TransportCarnival Corp. is seeking dismissal of lawsuits filed by passengers who endured days of difficult conditions aboard the disabled Triumph cruise ship. The biggest case is a potential class action seeking to represent about 3,000 Triumph passengers. Carnival said in a motion filed last week in Miami federal court that its cruise tickets clearly state [...]
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United gets black pilots’ discrimination lawsuit dismissed
TransportUnited Continental Holdings Inc. won dismissal of a discrimination lawsuit by black pilots who alleged that the airline offers minority employees fewer promotions to upper management than whites. U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney in San Francisco said the pilots could file an amended complaint by May 20 to fix deficiencies in the lawsuit that led [...]
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Air India will seek damages from Boeing over Dreamliner grounding
TransportAir India Ltd. will seek at least 2 billion rupees ($37 million) from Boeing Co. to compensate losses at the state-owned carrier following grounding of its 787 aircraft, a person familiar with the matter said. The carrier will raise the claim with Boeing shortly, said the official, who declined to be identified citing rules. G. [...]
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Marriott loses appeal in its case against owners of Miami’s Eden Roc Hotel
RoomsMarriott International Inc., the largest publicly traded U.S. hotel chain, lost an appeal in its lawsuit against the owners of the Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. The owners of the 57-year-old Eden Roc sued Bethesda, Maryland-based Marriott in April, saying the company mismanaged the property after they invested more than $300 million [...]
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Costa Concordia disaster: prosecutors ask for manslaughter verdict of captain
TransportItalian prosecutors on Monday officially requested an indictment of the Costa Concordia‘s captain on manslaughter charges in the shipwreck of the cruise liner that killed 32 people last year off the Tuscan coast. Prosecutors based in Grosseto, Tuscany, also are seeking a trial for Francesco Schettino, the captain of the luxury cruise liner, on charges [...]
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Carnival has the upper hand on all the lawsuits coming its way
TransportLawsuits are already filed in this month’s disastrous Triumph cruise ship voyage, but the legal deck is stacked in parent company Carnival‘s favor, mainly because of the restrictive terms of vacationers’ tickets, governing who can sue and where. Cases involving the Triumph — which was disabled Feb. 10 by an engine fire that stranded thousands [...]
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Legal “feeding frenzy” leads to another Carnival Triumph class-action lawsuit
TransportLess than a week since passengers left the ill-fated Carnival Triumph, the lawsuits are already piling up against Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines. The latest was filed Wednesday in Galveston by the Mississippi law firm of John Arthur Eaves, which is also representing 80 passengers and family members affected by the Costa Concordia shipwreck last year. [...]
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Carnival passengers may have little success suing company, but will anyway
TransportAfter four days on a crippled cruise ship with overflowing toilets, stifling heat and hours-long waits for food, at least one passenger from the Carnival Triumph is seeking legal revenge. But lawyers familiar with cruise ship lawsuits suggest angry passengers should think twice before rushing to the courts. Unless passengers suffered major injuries or other [...]
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Cruise-ship “art” purchase leads to lawsuit and retaliatory cruising ban
TransportCruise lines sometimes ban passengers who get drunk, start fights or commit other mayhem. Ware and Lisa Cornell say their vice was buying a couple of lithographs. The Weston, Florida, couple is asking U.S. regulators to force Carnival Corp. to reimburse it $33,100 for lost deposits and legal fees after, they say, the company banned [...]
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Priceline and Kayak settle shareholder lawsuits that sought to block merger
DigitalPriceline and Kayak settled several shareholder lawsuits that sought to block their $1.8 billion merger based on allegations that Kayak failed to perform its fiduciary duties by not getting a higher share-price for the deal, and that Priceline assisted Kayak in ensuring that a superior offer didn’t emerge. Priceline and Kayak signed memorandums of understanding [...]
