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North Carolina Supreme Court Allows 2 Year Window for Child Sex Abuse Suits
Feb 3 2025 // North Carolina’s highest court upheld on Friday a law that gave adult victims of child sexual abuse two additional years to seek civil damages, rejecting arguments that the temporary window violated constitutional...
Killed Florida TV Reporter’s Parents Sue His Employer, Charter Communications
Jan 31 2025 // ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a local TV journalist who was fatally shot while reporting on a killing in central Florida in 2023 have filed a negligence lawsuit against their son’s former employer, claiming...
Fortress Targets $1 Billion for Latest Litigation Finance Fund
Jan 30 2025 // Fortress Investment Group is seeking to raise about $1 billion for its latest fund in litigation finance, a sector in which it’s becoming a powerhouse, according to people familiar with the matter. The new fund,...
Lawsuit Accuses Amazon of Secretly Tracking Consumers Through Cellphones
Jan 30 2025 // Amazon.com was sued on Wednesday by consumers who accused the retailing giant of secretly tracking their movements through their cellphones, and selling data it collects. According to a proposed class action in San...
MGM Resorts to Pay $45M to Settle Data Breach Lawsuit
Jan 29 2025 // MGM Resorts International has agreed to a $45 million to resolve a class action lawsuit over its data breaches in 2019 and 2023. Preliminary approval of the settlement was granted by a federal judge, according to documents...
Trump Administration Halts Environmental Litigation, Sidelines Lawyers: Sources
Jan 27 2025 // U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has halted all pending environmental litigation and reassigned four career Justice Department attorneys focused on environmental issues, according to three sources...
Nebraska Sues Change Healthcare Over Data Breach
Jan 27 2025 // Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit in Lancaster County District Court against Change Healthcare alleging violations of the state’s Consumer Protection and Data Security Laws. The complaint stems...
Lawsuit Filed Against City of New Orleans Over Fatal Truck Attack
Jan 27 2025 // Six people who were injured and the father of a man who was killed in the New Year’s truck attack have filed a lawsuit against the City of New Orleans and two contractors, claiming they failed to protect revelers...
French Families Sue TikTok Over Teen Suicides They Say Are Linked to Harmful Content
Jan 24 2025 // In the moment when her world shattered three years ago, Stephanie Mistre found her 15-year-old daughter, Marie, lifeless in the bedroom where she died by suicide. “I went from light to darkness in a fraction of a...
Microsoft’s LinkedIn Sued for Disclosing Customer Information to Train AI Models
Jan 22 2025 // Microsoft’s LinkedIn has been sued by Premium customers who said the business-focused social media platform disclosed their private messages to third parties without permission to train generative artificial...
Citigroup Must Face New York Lawsuit Over Handling of Fraud Scams
Jan 22 2025 // A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Citigroup’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by New York Attorney General Letitia James claiming it failed to protect customers from online scammers and refused to reimburse customers who...
EEOC Sues Two Automakers, Alleging Discrimination and Harassment
Jan 21 2025 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Jan. 17 sued two large automakers, accusing General Motors and the United Auto Workers of age discrimination and the Stellantis unit that includes Chrysler of subjecting...
Michigan Adult Care Company to Pay $170K in EEOC Lawsuit
Jan 21 2025 // PACE Southeast Michigan, a company providing all-inclusive care for the elderly, will pay $170,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission...
Cleveland City Files Lawsuit to Prevent Browns’ Move to Suburban Dome
Jan 17 2025 // Cleveland’s fight to keep the Browns from moving from downtown and into a proposed dome in the suburbs has taken yet another legal turn. The city has filed a lawsuit to stop the NFL team from leaving...
Deere & Co. Accused of Forcing Farmers to Use Authorized Dealers for Equipment Repair
Jan 17 2025 // Deere & Co. unfairly forces farmers to visit authorized dealers to repair their equipment, resulting in higher prices than if they could fix it themselves or get help from independent shops, the Federal Trade...
NC Court Says Mother Can Sue Trooper After Student Killed in Ride-Along
Jan 17 2025 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The mother of a North Carolina university student killed while on a ride-along in a Highway Patrol cruiser can continue suing for gross negligence the trooper who drove off the road during a...
DOJ Reports $2.9B Recovered in False Claims Act Litigation
Jan 16 2025 // Litigation under the False Claims Act generated more than $2.9 billion in settlement and judgments the last fiscal year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. According to data released Jan. 15, the Justice...
Bayer Faces Billions in Payouts for Decades-Old Toxic Mess
Jan 16 2025 // Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit stopped making toxic PCBs a half century ago, but the legal fallout lingers even as many of the building materials made with the chemicals are no longer used in US homes, schools and...
New York City Lawsuit Against Exxon, BP, Shell Over Climate Change Dismissed
Jan 16 2025 // A judge has dismissed New York City’s lawsuit seeking to hold Exxon Mobil, BP and Shell liable for misleading the public about their products, and their commitment to renewable energy and fighting climate change. In...
‘Epidemic’ of Hidden Cams? SC Workers’ Comp Lawyer Sued After Arrest for Videos
Jan 15 2025 // Two months after his law license was suspended and he was charged with illicitly filming renters at his beach property, a South Carolina workers’ compensation attorney now faces a civil lawsuit by one of the alleged...
