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Iowa City Settles Fatal Police Shooting Suit for $5M
Jun 28 2022 // Burlington, Iowa, has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the mother of a man who was shot to death by police nearly five years ago, the two sides said. The settlement comes nearly five...
California Assembly Endorses Plan to Allow Citizens to Sue Those Who Provide Dangerous Firearms
Jun 27 2022 // A first-in-the-nation law that enables private citizens to sue manufacturers of “dangerous” firearms passed on Monday in the Assembly. The bill, backed by Gov. Newsom, returns to the Senate for consideration...
Hertz Makes Settlement Offers to End False Arrest Lawsuits
Jun 27 2022 // Hertz Corp. has offered to settle about three dozen cases filed by renters that say they were wrongly arrested for auto theft, the company said.The settlement push comes after Colleen Batcheler took over as general counsel...
U.S. Supreme Court Again Nixes Bayer Challenge to Weedkiller Suits
Jun 27 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected another Bayer AG bid to dismiss litigation alleging that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer as the German pharmaceutical and chemical giant tries to avoid potentially billions of...
Lawsuit Filed Over Fatal Shooting of Arkansas Teen
Jun 27 2022 // The family of an unarmed Arkansas teenager fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the deputy and a county sheriff over the teen’s death. The family of...
Court Says Woman Can Sue Harvard for Distress Over Enslaved Ancestors’ Photos
Jun 27 2022 // A Connecticut woman who says she’s descended from slaves who are portrayed in widely published, historical photos owned by Harvard University can sue the school for emotional distress, Massachusetts’ highest...
Parents Sue Boston Hospital Over Loss of Baby’s Body
Jun 27 2022 // A Massachusetts couple whose prematurely born baby girl died less than two weeks after she was delivered has sued one of Boston’s most prestigious hospitals for losing the infant’s body, denying the parents the...
Settlement Made in Louisiana Workers’ Crawfish Processing Suit
Jun 27 2022 // Six migrant workers would share in a total of more than $21,000 in the proposed settlement of a lawsuit filed last year alleging that a Louisiana crawfish processing business underpaid them in violation of minimum wage...
How a Bankruptcy ‘Innovation’ Halted Thousands of Lawsuits from Sick Plaintiffs
Jun 24 2022 // Attorney Greg Gordon sat before a packed hotel ballroom of bankruptcy lawyers who had come to hear him hold court on his pioneering strategy for companies seeking to dodge billion-dollar lawsuits: the “Texas...
Colorado Lawsuit: Hero Who Stopped Gunman Shot Without Warning
Jun 24 2022 // The mother of a man hailed as a hero for killing a gunman who ambushed and fatally shot a police officer only to be killed himself by another officer in suburban Denver filed a lawsuit alleging the officer who shot him...
Tesla Worker Rejects $15M Payout in Race Bias Lawsuit
Jun 23 2022 // A Black former elevator operator at Tesla Inc’s flagship California assembly plant on Tuesday rejected a $15 million award in his lawsuit alleging racial abuse by coworkers, opening the door for a new trial after a...
Oregon Business Groups Sue Over Heat and Smoke Worker Protections
Jun 23 2022 // Some Oregon business groups are suing over the state’s new job site rules mandating that employers take steps to protect workers from extreme heat and wildfire smoke. Regulations adopted by the Oregon Occupational...
Deshaun Watson Settles 20 of 24 Civil Suits from Time with Texans
Jun 23 2022 // Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson’s decision to settle 20 of 24 civil lawsuits for sexual misconduct may not dissuade the NFL from giving him a lengthy suspension, a person familiar with the league’s...
Tesla Worker in California Rejects $15M Payout in Race Bias Lawsuit
Jun 22 2022 // A Black former elevator operator at Tesla Inc.’s TSLA.O flagship California assembly plant on Tuesday rejected a $15 million award in his lawsuit alleging racial abuse by coworkers, opening the door for a new trial...
Buffett’s Dairy Queen Loses Lawsuit Over ‘Blizzard’ Name
Jun 22 2022 // A federal judge ruled that Dairy Queen cannot stop W.B. Mason Co from selling “Blizzard” bottled spring water, the same name the unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc BRKa.N uses for a popular...
Parents of New Mexico Kids Injured in Crash Sue Car Driver, Insurance
Jun 21 2022 // The parents of three New Mexico children injured in a crash involving an Albuquerque Public Schools bus four months ago have filed a lawsuit against the driver of the speeding car involved and his insurance company. The...
Colorado Ski Resort Settles Suit Involving Fatal Lift Accident
Jun 21 2022 // The family of a woman who died after falling from a chairlift at a small Colorado ski resort as she was riding up with her two young daughters has settled a wrongful death lawsuit. William Huber, the girls’ father,...
Bayer Rejected by US Supreme Court in Bid to End Roundup Suits
Jun 21 2022 // The US Supreme Court rejected a multibillion-dollar appeal from Bayer AG, refusing to shield the company from potentially tens of thousands of claims that its top-selling Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. The justices,...
Tesla Sued by Former Employees Over ‘Mass Layoff’
Jun 21 2022 // Former Tesla Inc. employees have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. electric car company alleging its decision to carry out a “mass layoff” violated federal law as the company did not provide advance notice of...
New Jersey Sues Ford for Damages Over Mining That Contaminated Tribal Land
Jun 21 2022 // New Jersey officials sued Ford Motor Company on Thursday, alleging that the automaker contaminated the ancestral homeland of a Native American tribe by dumping paint sludge and other pollutants into a former mine. The...
