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Reddit Sues Australia Over Social Media Ban, Citing Free Speech Threat
Dec 12 2025 // Message board website Reddit on Friday filed a lawsuit in Australia’s highest court seeking to overturn the country’s social media ban for children, calling it an intrusion on free political discourse and...
Suit Against OpenAI and Microsoft Blames ChatGPT for Murder-Suicide
Dec 12 2025 // OpenAI and its investor Microsoft Corp. were sued over a Connecticut murder-suicide in the latest case to blame the popular ChatGPT chatbot for dangerous psychological manipulation of users. The lawsuit turns on the...
Abbott Presses Congress for Legal Shield Over Preemie Baby Formula Lawsuits
Dec 11 2025 // The company that makes one of the two most widely used brands of formula for premature babies is threatening to stop. That is, unless US health officials and Congress help protect it from lawsuits related to infant deaths...
Tricolor Trustee Files Suit in Texas for Auto Dealer’s Collapse
Dec 11 2025 // Bankrupt subprime auto dealer Tricolor Holdings is preparing to sue the company’s founder for allegedly masterminding a massive fraud that led to the company’s collapse into bankruptcy, according to a court...
Senior Facility Owner and Inspector Sue Each Other Over Faulty Sprinklers in Deadly Fire
Dec 11 2025 // A safety inspection company and the owner of a Massachusetts assisted-living facility that was the site of a fire in July that killed 10 people are blaming each other for failing to address a faulty sprinkler...
Disney’s New Disability Access Policies Are Too Restrictive, Lawsuit Contends
Dec 10 2025 // Changes that Disney made to a popular program that lets qualifying disabled people skip long lines at its California and Florida theme parks are too restrictive, disabled fans contend in a federal lawsuit and shareholder...
Lawsuit Seeks Changes to Disney Parks’ Disability Policies
Dec 10 2025 // Changes that Disney made to a popular program that lets qualifying disabled people skip long lines at its California and Florida theme parks are too restrictive, disabled fans contend in a federal lawsuit and shareholder...
Verlan Files Subrogation Suit Against Georgia Chemical Plant After $20M Payout on Fire
Dec 9 2025 // About 5 a.m. on Sept. 29, 2024, an employee at the Bio-Lab chemical warehouse outside Atlanta heard a popping sound, a tell-tale sign that stored chemicals had come in contact with water and were reacting. Within 90...
Honolulu Settling Lawsuit Over Shooting of Micronesian Teen for $1M
Dec 8 2025 // Honolulu’s city council authorized $1 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police. The fatal shooting of Iremamber Sykap in 2021 came amid a national reckoning...
New York Times Sues Perplexity AI for ‘Illegal’ Copying of Content
Dec 5 2025 // The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, claiming that the artificial intelligence startup was copying, distributing and displaying millions of its articles without permission. The startup has...
Standard Chartered Settles £1.5 Billion Iranian Sanction Suit in London
Dec 5 2025 // Standard Chartered Plc has settled an investor lawsuit worth £1.5 billion ($2 billion) over allegations it systematically breached sanctions against Iran to win new business. In a London Court of Appeal ruling over...
Instacart Sues New York City Over Worker Pay, Tipping Laws
Dec 4 2025 // Instacart sued New York City on Tuesday, seeking to block enforcement of five laws affecting the grocery delivery company, including higher minimum pay for app-based workers and greater disclosures to customers about...
Lawsuit Alleges USA Gymnastics, SafeSport Failed to Stop Sexual Abuse
Dec 3 2025 // Two gymnasts who say they were sexually abused at an elite academy in Iowa filed lawsuits Monday against the sport’s oversight bodies, alleging they failed to stop Sean Gardner from preying on girls despite repeated...
State Farm Sued Over Policies Backed by Distressed Insurer PHL
Dec 3 2025 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. faces a lawsuit accusing it of fraud and unjust enrichment for selling products from PHL Variable Insurance Co., which authorities say has a $2.2 billion capital shortfall that...
Victims’ Families to Sue for Wrongful Death Over UPS Cargo Jet Crash
Dec 3 2025 // Families of the victims of a UPS cargo jet crash plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit on Wednesday, according to one of the law firms representing the victims. The UPS MD-11 cargo jet crashed immediately after taking off...
San Francisco Sues Kraft, Coca-Cola Over Ultra-Processed Foods
Dec 2 2025 // The city of San Francisco sued Kraft, Mondelez, Coca-Cola and other makers of ultra-processed foods on Tuesday, accusing them of knowingly sickening California residents with addictive and harmful products. City Attorney...
Trump Administration Backs Bayer’s Bid to Curb Roundup Lawsuits
Dec 2 2025 // President Donald Trump’s administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to take up Bayer’s bid to curtail thousands of lawsuits claiming its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, pushing the group’s...
Viewpoint: Bombarded by Fire Lawsuits, Policy Change is Sorely Needed in California
Dec 2 2025 // Mere days into the new year of 2025, Los Angeles faced the highly destructive Palisades Fire, which destroyed some 6,837 structures, including two public schools, four churches, historical sites and more than 5,400 homes....
Lawsuit Over Burger King’s Whopper Ads Set Back by Federal Judge
Dec 1 2025 // A federal judge dealt a setback to customers suing Burger King over advertising for its Whopper sandwiches, saying their claims were too disparate to justify certifying a nationwide class action. The lawsuit by 19...
Litigation Finance Hits a Wall After Bets on Huge Gains Falter
Dec 1 2025 // Litigation finance is having a bad year. After predicting huge growth as recently as January 2024, the industry is now finding that hedge funds and other sources of capital are pulling back. The situation has led some...
