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$1.6M Out-of-Court Settlement Reached in Minnesota Excessive Force Suit
Aug 31 2020 // An out-of-court settlement has been reached in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a man who said he suffered a serious brain injury during an arrest by an Otter Tail County, Minnesota, sheriff’s deputy. The...
Family of Man Who Died in Custody in Washington Announces $30M Suit
Aug 31 2020 // The family of a Black man who died in Tacoma, Wash. police custody announced they plan to sue the police department for $30 million for his death. Seattle lawyer James Bible, who represents Manuel Ellis’ family in...
Judge Allows Palin Defamation Suit Against New York Times
Aug 31 2020 // A federal judge on Friday rejected the New York Times’ bid to dismiss Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit over a 2017 editorial she said falsely linked her to a mass shooting. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in...
UCLA Suing Under Armour, Seeking Damages in Excess Of $200 Million
Aug 28 2020 // UCLA filed a lawsuit against Under Armour this week in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for breach of contract, seeking damages in excess of $200 million.. Under Armour announced in late June that it was ending its deal...
Black Farmers Sue to Force Roundup Weedkiller Ban or Product Warnings
Aug 28 2020 // A group of Black U.S. farmers filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday, seeking to force Bayer AG to either stop selling its widely used weedkiller Roundup or roll out new product warnings. The National Black Farmers...
Apple Can’t Dodge California Lawsuit Claiming Sex-Bias for Canceled Contract
Aug 27 2020 // Apple Inc. can’t dodge a lawsuit in which it’s accused of canceling a contract with a janitorial service because the owner is a woman. In a tentative ruling last week in California state court in San Jose,...
Ohio High Court: Private Company Workers Can’t Sue Over Urine Tests
Aug 27 2020 // Private company workers who provide drug test urine samples under direct observation can’t sue over invasion of privacy, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Aug. 26. The court’s 4-3 decision overturned a...
New Orleans Sues Owners Over Deadly Collapse of Hotel Project
Aug 27 2020 // The city of New Orleans is suing the owners of a hotel that was under construction when it collapsed 10 months ago, killing three workers. Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s office announced the lawsuit against the company...
Employers Face Increase In COVID-19 Wrongful Death Lawsuits
Aug 27 2020 // As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise, so too does the number of lawsuits filed against employers. Recently, an increasing number of families of employees who died from COVID-19 have asserted wrongful death actions...
2 Players Sue Alleging NFL Race-Based Testing Limits Concussion Benefits for Blacks
Aug 26 2020 // Two retired Black players have sued the National Football League claiming that the NFL deliberately manipulated ex-players’ “cognitive function” test scores in a way that made it less likely that Black...
Widower Files Suit Over Woman’s Death from Falling Debris in Manhattan
Aug 26 2020 // A widower whose wife died when she was hit by falling debris on a Manhattan street filed a lawsuit against the building’s owner and the city, claiming negligence and wrongful death. The civil suit from Steven Tishman...
3 Reasons COVID-19 Business Income Suits Should Not be Combined
Aug 26 2020 // Recently a U.S. Judicial Panel on multidistrict litigation denied a proposal to consolidate cases related to business income losses related to coronavirus. Read that story on Insurance Journal here. This was the right...
Former Washington State Student Sues School District Over Mass Shooting
Aug 26 2020 // A former student at a high school in Washington state who survived a school shooting is suing the district for what she claims was a preventable attack. The mass shooting killed four students and the gunman in 2014. Carmen...
Sierra Leone Residents’ Damages Suit Against Miner Is Part of Activist Trend
Aug 25 2020 // FREETOWN – At the foot of a slag heap some 40 meters high, Adi Kalie Bangura showed the black welts that dot his arms and legs that he says are the result of drinking and bathing in water contaminated by Sierra...
Judge Dismisses Shareholder Lawsuit Against Danske Bank and Officers
Aug 25 2020 // A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Denmark’s Danske Bank A/S and four former top executives of defrauding shareholders by hiding and failing to stop widespread money laundering at its former Estonian...
2 Washington State Agribusinesses Settle Federal Discrimination Suit for $325K
Aug 25 2020 // Two agribusinesses in Washington state will distribute $325,000 among 105 Thai farm workers to settle a federal national origin and race discrimination lawsuit. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said...
Former Oregon School District Student Sues, Says Principal Molested Him
Aug 25 2020 // A former student of the Gresham-Barlow School District in Oregon has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the district and former Deep Creek Elementary School principal Jeff Hays, saying he was sexually abused by Hays. The...
New Jersey High Court Sides with Pfizer Over Religious Discrimination Suit
Aug 24 2020 // A former Pfizer employee who said she was fired for refusing a vaccine on religious grounds can’t proceed with a discrimination lawsuit because she waived that right, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in...
California Electrical Contractor to Pay $1.25M to Settle Racial Harassment Suit
Aug 24 2020 // A San Jose, Calif.-based electrical subcontractor at the Apple Park construction project, will pay will pay $1,250,000 and provide other relief to settle a racial harassment lawsuit. Air Systems Inc. (ASI) will pay the...
Texas Insurance Agency Released from Suit by Restaurant Group Over Virus Losses
Aug 21 2020 // A federal judge in Texas has dismissed an independent insurance agency from a lawsuit brought by a Dallas restaurant group seeking reimbursement for business income losses stemming from the civil authority enforced...
