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Johnson & Johnson Can’t Block Lawsuit Claiming It Lied About Asbestos in Talc
Apr 13 2022 // Johnson & Johnson can’t use its baby powder bankruptcy to prevent a lawsuit that accuses the company of hiding evidence that its industrial talc operation exposed workers to the toxic material asbestos, a federal...
Arbitrator Clears Police Officers Who Pushed Buffalo Protester But Lawsuit Continues
Apr 13 2022 // An arbitrator has ruled that two Buffalo police officers didn’t violate the department’s use-of-force guidelines when they pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground in June 2020 during racial injustice...
University of Southern California Suing YouTubers for Pranks
Apr 13 2022 // The University of Southern California is suing two YouTube performers who the school says created panic after barging into classrooms to film prank videos for their channels. Court documents obtained by the Los Angeles...
U.S. Gunmakers to Ask Judge to Toss Mexico’s $10 Billion Lawsuit
Apr 12 2022 // A U.S. judge on Tuesday questioned whether allowing Mexico to sue U.S. gun manufacturers for facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels would open the door to other countries suing them, including Russia over...
Amended Class Action Wants NFL’s Giants, Jets to Drop ‘New York’ From Names
Apr 12 2022 // Plaintiffs upset that the National Football League teams Giants and Jets call themselves New York teams when in fact they play their games in New Jersey have amended their class action complaint to demand that the teams...
Lawsuit Says Boy’s Brain Damaged by Errant Throw at California Stadium
Apr 11 2022 // A 6-year-old boy suffered a fractured skull and brain damage when he was accidentally hit by a baseball thrown by a Los Angeles Angels player who was warming up before a 2019 game, according to a lawsuit announced that...
Chilean State Sues Mining Companies, Alleging Environmental Damage
Apr 11 2022 // Chile is suing mines operated by BHP, Antofagasta and Albemarle over alleged environmental damage caused by their operations in the northern Salar de Atacama salt flats, a court said late on Thursday. The State Defense...
Man Files Suit in Washington Claiming Corrections Officers Fractured Spine
Apr 8 2022 // A man has filed a lawsuit against King County, Washington, and several corrections officers, alleging they fractured his spine when they knelt on his back and forcibly removed his clothing in jail. Todd Jones, 53, filed...
Baltimore Gains State Court Edge It Sought in Climate Change Suit Against Big Oil
Apr 8 2022 // Big oil firms totally failed to make a federal case in their defense of a lawsuit seeking to hold them accountable for damages caused by climate change. The city of Baltimore won its fight to have its climate change...
Walgreens Goes to Trial in Florida Lawsuit on Opioids
Apr 7 2022 // Most of the defendants in Florida’s lawsuit over the opioid epidemic have settled for more than $870 million, according to the state attorney general. One remains: Walgreens Co. is not giving up. A jury has been...
Boy Scouts Abuse Settlement Attacked for Preventing Future Lawsuits
Apr 7 2022 // The Boy Scouts of America’s sexual abuse compensation fund should be rejected, a small group of victims say, because the proposal has the same legal flaw that ended a similar plan by bankrupt opioid maker Purdue...
Contractor, Agency Face $10M Lawsuit in Oregon for Construction Work
Apr 7 2022 // TriMet is facing a $10 million lawsuit from the city of Portland, Oregon, for alleged deeply flawed work on a streetcar track, leaving it with major structural defects that could cost the city millions in repairs. Oregon...
Louisiana Church Sues Insurer For Alleged Inadequate Storm Damage Coverage
Apr 6 2022 // A Louisiana church has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that its insurer failed to adequately cover millions of dollars in property damage resulting from two devastating weather events last year, including Hurricane...
Indiana Senior Living Facility to Settle Disability Discrimination Suit
Apr 6 2022 // Heart of CarDon, a Bloomington, Indiana-based senior living community, will pay $115,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
California May Empower Citizens to Sue Over Illegal Firearms
Apr 6 2022 // For all California’s nation-leading attempts to regulate firearms, the state has not found a way to deter those happy to skirt the laws with stolen or homemade and increasingly prevalent “ghost” guns. In...
Supreme Court Removes an Obstacle to Malicious Prosecution Lawsuits
Apr 6 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday eliminated one of the hurdles facing individuals looking to sue for being falsely accused of crimes. In Thompson v. Clark, a majority (6-3) of the high court not only acknowledged a claim...
Lawsuit Settled in Texas Child’s Brain-Eating Amoeba Death
Apr 5 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...
Lawsuit Alleges Power Line Sparked Colorado Wildfire
Apr 5 2022 // The first lawsuit filed in connection with a wildfire that destroyed over 1,000 homes and other buildings in suburban Denver claims that sparks from a power line started December’s blaze. The lawsuit filed against...
$14M Jury Award for Protesters Comes As Other Cities Face Similar Policing Lawsuits
Apr 5 2022 // A federal jury’s $14 million award to Denver protesters hit with pepper balls and a bag filled with lead during 2020 demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis could resonate nationwide as...
Lawsuit Over Iowa Beef Farm in Trout Stream Watershed May Proceed
Apr 5 2022 // A state court judge said environmental groups may proceed with a lawsuit seeking to halt expansion of a cattle farm in northeast Iowa near a prized trout stream. Judge Michael Huppert on Monday ruled against the Iowa...
