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Credit Suisse Warns Greensill Litigation Against Insurers, Debtors May Take 5 Years
Apr 4 2022 // Credit Suisse said on Monday that litigation related to Greensill supply chain finance funds (SCFF) could take around five years and warned that some investors would not be able to recover their money. Credit Suisse racked...
Lawsuit Settled in Texas Child’s Brain-Eating Amoeba Death
Apr 4 2022 // A Texas city has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a 3-year-old boy who died last September after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a splash pad he’d visited. The Arlington City...
Nationwide Doesn’t Have to Defend in Suit Against Alabama Child Molester
Apr 4 2022 // David Barrow consoles a soccer player after a loss at the state championship in 2011.(AP Photo/The Huntsville Times, Eric Schultz) Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. does not have to defend its insured, an Alabama man who...
Court Allows Arkansas Malpractice Claim to Proceed Before Underlying Suit is Resolved
Apr 4 2022 // Legal malpractice claims usually aren’t filed until after somebody loses a lawsuit. But what happens when the underlying dispute hasn’t been resolved, but a litigant has to hire new counsel to clean up mistakes...
Sixth Circuit Sides With Distributor in Ohio Opioid Lawsuit Jurisdiction Dispute
Apr 2 2022 // An Ohio district court correctly granted a pharmaceutical distributor’s motion to remand to state court a case regarding whether its insurer must provide defense in ongoing opioid litigation, the U.S. Court of...
Supreme Court Cast Doubt on Texas Immunity Claim in Vet’s Suit
Apr 1 2022 // The Supreme Court on Tuesday cast doubt on Texas’ claim that it can’t be sued by a former state trooper who says he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq. The justices heard...
Ballplayer Files Defamation Suit Against The Athletic in California
Apr 1 2022 // Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer sued The Athletic and former reporter Molly Knight, accusing them of “creating and spreading the false narrative” that he had fractured a woman’s skull during a...
Parents of Teen Shot on Bridge Sue Pennsylvania State Police, District Attorney
Apr 1 2022 // The parents of a 19-year-old man who was killed by state troopers on an overpass in the Pocono Mountains filed a wrongful-death suit Wednesday, saying video that Pennsylvania State Police initially tried to keep secret...
FTC Sues Intuit to Stop ‘Bait-and-Switch’ TurboTax Ads
Mar 31 2022 // The Federal Trade Commission is suing TurboTax maker Intuit, saying its ads for “free” tax filing misled consumers. Intuit says it will fight the suit. The consumer protection agency said Tuesday that millions...
Grubhub, Uber Eats, Postmates Must Face Diners’ Lawsuit Over U.S. Restaurant Prices
Mar 31 2022 // A U.S. judge on Wednesday said Grubhub, Uber Eats and Postmates must face an antitrust lawsuit by diners who accused them of driving up menu prices by exploiting their dominance in meal deliveries during the COVID-19...
Texas High Court: Wrongful Death Suit Against Gentlemen’s Club in Hands of Arbitrator
Mar 31 2022 // Three terms in a written contract between a gentlemen’s club and a deceased employee are not so unclear as to nullify the contract’s arbitration agreement, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in a March 18 per curiam...
Illinois Court: Insurer Must Defend IT Company in BIPA Suits
Mar 30 2022 // An insurer must defend an information technology company facing a pair of Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) lawsuits, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said in a March 30 ruling. In...
Colorado Stadium Fire Torched Seats, Suite Area
Mar 30 2022 // Firefighters extinguished a blaze that torched several rows of seats and a suite area at the Denver Broncos’ stadium last week. The fire broke out on the fourth level at Empower Field at Mile High just after 2 p.m....
Travis Scott Accused of Violating Astroworld Suits Gag Order
Mar 30 2022 // Attorneys for some of those killed and injured during last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival alleged in court on Monday that rapper Travis Scott has violated a gag order issued in lawsuits they have filed in an...
Chicago Officials Approve $1.7 Million Settlement in Civil Rights Suit
Mar 29 2022 // The Chicago City Council has voted to pay nearly $1.7 million to five people, including a Black woman who said police dragged her from a car by her hair at a shopping mall amid unrest following George Floyd’s 2020...
Louisiana Court: Protest Leader Can be Sued For Cop’s Injury
Mar 28 2022 // A Louisiana police officer injured when violence broke out over the police killing of a Black man in Baton Rouge in 2016 has grounds to pursue a lawsuit against a protest organizer, Louisiana’s Supreme Court said...
Suit Alleges Racial Profiling in 2021 Louisiana Traffic Stop
Mar 28 2022 // Two Black men claim in a new federal lawsuit that they were subjected to an illegal, racially motivated and humiliating traffic stop and search last year by deputies in Louisiana’s St. Tammany Parish. The American...
Judge Upholds $2M Verdict in Boston Police Gender Discrimination Suit
Mar 28 2022 // A federal judge has upheld the verdict that awarded a high-ranking Boston police detective $2 million after she accused her former boss of gender discrimination, harassment and retaliation. U.S. District Court Judge Leo...
Court Dismisses Washington Post Reporter’s Discrimination Lawsuit
Mar 28 2022 // District of Columbia judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Washington Post politics reporter who said the newspaper discriminated against her as a woman and victim of sexual assault. Felicia Sonmez sued the Post in...
U. of Michigan to Settle Students’ Sex-Abuse Lawsuit
Mar 25 2022 // The University of Michigan has reached an agreement to settle a lawsuit brought by students who sought to force changes in how the school protects the campus from sexual misconduct. As part of the deal, which was filed in...
