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Mattel Sued Over ‘Wicked’ Dolls With Porn Website Link
Dec 4 2024 // Mattel was sued on Tuesday by a South Carolina mother for mistakenly putting a link to a pornographic website on packaging for dolls tied to the blockbuster movie “Wicked.” In a proposed class action filed in...
New Jersey Shore Resort Town and State Settle Litigation Over Deteriorating Beaches
Dec 4 2024 // A decadelong conflict over the condition of a New Jersey resort town’s beaches, involving tens of millions of dollars in litigation and fines, could come to an end soon. Patrick Rosenello, the mayor of North...
People Moves: Bertoldi Joins Alliant to Lead Litigation Insurance Practice
Dec 4 2024 // Jason Bertoldi Jason Bertoldi has joined Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, as global team leader, litigation and contingent risk insurance. Bertoldi assists clients in obtaining bespoke...
Ex-TV Host Charlie Rose Resolves Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Dec 3 2024 // Former TV host Charlie Rose has resolved a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by three women in the wake of his #MeToo-era ouster from CBS News in 2017 and the cancellation of his long-running, eponymous PBS talk show. In...
British Columbia Can Mount Opioid Class Action, Canada’s Top Court Says
Dec 2 2024 // The province of British Columbia can bring a class action lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies for opioid harms on behalf of multiple governments across Canada, the country’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday. In...
International Court Begins Hearings That May Shape Global Climate Litigation
Dec 2 2024 // The United Nations’ top court [this] week begins hearings on the legal obligation of countries to fight climate change and the consequences for states of contributing to global warming, the outcome of which could...
Minnesota County to Pay $3.4M to Settle Suit Over Detainee’s Death
Dec 2 2024 // Minnesota’s most populous county will pay $3.4 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged jail workers ignored the pleas of a 41-year-old man who died of a perforated bowel after spending days begging to be taken to a...
Lawsuit Seeks OSHA Records on Deaths of 3 Amazon Workers
Nov 27 2024 // A worker activist has sued the Department of Labor (DOL) to force the release of records surrounding the deaths of three workers at New Jersey Amazon workplaces in 2022. The lawsuit says DOL’s Occupational Safety and...
Maine Joins States Suing Big Oil to Recover Costs of Climate Change ‘Deception’
Nov 27 2024 // Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has filed suit in state court against Exxon, Shell, Chevron, BP, Sunoco, and the American Petroleum Institute for allegedly “deceiving Mainers for decades about the role of their...
Prince Harry’s Phone-Hacking Lawsuit Against Daily Mail to Go to Trial in 2026
Nov 27 2024 // Prince Harry and other high-profile British figures’ privacy lawsuits against the Daily Mail newspaper’s publisher will go to trial in early 2026, London’s High Court heard on Tuesday, with the...
Disney Settles Suit Over Women’s Pay for $43 Million
Nov 26 2024 // Walt Disney has agreed to pay $43.3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its female employees in California earned $150 million less than their male counterparts over an eight-year period, the plaintiffs’...
FTC, Meta Face April Trial Over Suit to Break Up Company
Nov 26 2024 // Meta Platforms Inc. faces an April 14 trial in the Federal Trade Commission’s long-running antitrust lawsuit to break up the company. US District Judge James Boasberg ruled Monday that the trial will take place in...
Texas Jury Awards $2M in Sex Discrimination Lawsuit Against SkyWest Airlines
Nov 25 2024 // A federal jury has awarded $2 million in punitive damages against SkyWest Airlines and $170,000 for emotional harm to Sarah Budd, a female parts clerk, to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal...
Class Action Lawsuit on AI-Related Discrimination Reaches Final Settlement
Nov 25 2024 // Mary Louis’ excitement to move into an apartment in Massachusetts in the spring of 2021 turned to dismay when Louis, a Black woman, received an email saying that a “third-party service” had denied her...
Nissan Persuades Appeals Court to Decertify Brake Defect Class Actions
Nov 25 2024 // Nissan persuaded a federal appeals court on Friday to decertify 10 class actions accusing the Japanese automaker of selling cars and SUVs with defective automatic emergency braking systems that caused vehicles to stop...
Suit Claiming Racial, Income Bias in Rental Algorithm Settled for $2.2 Million
Nov 25 2024 // Mary Louis’ excitement to move into an apartment in Massachusetts in the spring of 2021 turned to dismay when Louis, a Black woman, received an email saying that a “third-party service” had denied her...
Meta Must Face Investor Suit After Supreme Court Drops Case
Nov 22 2024 // The US Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Meta Platforms Inc., leaving it to face a lawsuit that accuses the company of misleading shareholders about the data-harvesting scandal involving political consulting firm...
Ken Paxton Adds Dallas to List of Cities He’s Sued Over Marijuana Decriminalization
Nov 22 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed another lawsuit to prevent decriminalizing marijuana-related offenses, this time against the city of Dallas. Paxton has previously sued the cities of San Marcos, Austin, Killeen,...
New Orleans to Pay $20M to School District to Settle Long-Running Suit
Nov 21 2024 // The New Orleans City Council and Orleans Parish School Board announced Monday that they have found a partial solution to the NOLA Public Schools district’s estimated $36 million budget gap. The school board will...
Judge Tosses Ex-Arkansas Governor’s Suit Against Meta Over CBD Advertisement
Nov 20 2024 // A federal judge in Delaware on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee against social media giant Meta over advertisements using his name and image to sell CBD products. Huckabee, a Baptist...
