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JPMorgan Sues Customers Over Check Fraud Linked to Glitch That Went Viral
Oct 30 2024 // JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank, has begun suing customers for check fraud, saying they improperly withdrew funds by taking illegal advantage of a temporary technical glitch that went viral on TikTok. The glitch in...
McDonald’s Sued by Consumers in Proposed Class Action Over E.Coli Outbreak
Oct 30 2024 // McDonald’s was sued on Tuesday by consumers in a proposed class action stemming from the E.coli outbreak linked to onions in the fast-food chain’s Quarter Pounders. Amanda McCray of Chicago and William Michael...
Michigan Culver’s Restaurants Sued for Discriminating Against Transgender Employee
Oct 29 2024 // Five related entities operating Culver’s restaurants in Michigan violated federal law when they fired a transgender employee and three of his colleagues after they complained about harassment, the U.S. Equal...
AI Chatbot Pushed Florida Teen to Suicide, Lawsuit Against Its Creator Alleges
Oct 29 2024 // In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest friend. For months, Sewell had become increasingly isolated from his...
Where’s the Meat? Lawsuit Claims Subway Sandwich Skimps on Filling
Oct 29 2024 // A new lawsuit accuses Subway of “grossly misleading” customers by advertising sandwiches that contain at least three times more meat than it delivers. According to a proposed class action filed on Monday in...
Delta Sues CrowdStrike Over ‘Catastrophic’ Software Glitch
Oct 29 2024 // Delta Air Lines Inc. sued cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. over the chaos caused this summer by a “catastrophic” software update that disabled millions of computers worldwide and grounded much of...
Lawsuit Alleges Child Sexual Abuse of WWE ‘Ring Boys’ in Maryland
Oct 29 2024 // A new lawsuit accuses the WWE and its founders of fostering a culture of sexual abuse within the organization and looking the other way while a longtime ringside announcer preyed on young men he hired as “ring...
Lyft to Pay $2 Million to Resolve FTC Suit Over Driver Pay
Oct 28 2024 // Lyft Inc. agreed to pay $2.1 million to resolve a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission accusing the ride-hailing company of deceiving drivers about how much they would earn when consumer demand picked up after the...
Lawsuits Claim Children Were Sexually Abused in Pennsylvania Juvenile Facilities
Oct 28 2024 // A set of lawsuits was filed last Wednesday by people who claim they were sexually abused inside Pennsylvania juvenile detention and treatment facilities, making more than 200 people to have launched such cases since...
Jury Hands $5.2B Verdict Against Vegas Company in Bottled Water Liver Damage Suit
Oct 28 2024 // A jury in Nevada has delivered a $5.2 billion award in the latest large-sum lawsuit against a former Las Vegas-based bottled water company that was found responsible for causing liver damage in customers before it was...
Georgia County to Sue BioLab Over Chemical Fire and Toxic Fumes
Oct 25 2024 // CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia county is preparing a federal lawsuit that aims to shut down the BioLab chemical factory where a fire sent a toxic chemical cloud over Atlanta’s suburbs last month, the latest in a...
Parents of Student Disciplined for Using AI Sue School
Oct 25 2024 // The parents of a high school senior in Massachusetts argued in federal court in Boston on Tuesday that their son was unfairly punished for using artificial intelligence while researching a history project, harming his...
McDonald’s Sued by Colorado Man Sickened in E. Coli Outbreak
Oct 24 2024 // A Colorado man has filed what appears to be the first lawsuit against McDonald’s over an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers that has killed one person and sickened nearly 50 others. The lawsuit, filed...
Australia Sues Insurer QBE Over Pricing Discounts, Shares Slip
Oct 23 2024 // Australia’s corporate regulator is taking QBE to court, alleging that the country’s biggest insurer by gross written premiums misled more than half a million customers about discounts on various products during...
Meta Platforms Defeats Shareholder Lawsuit Over Child Safety Claims
Oct 23 2024 // Meta Platforms and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg won the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming they misled shareholders in Meta’s proxy statement about their ability to ensure the safety of children who use Facebook and...
Mining Dam Disaster Deal Should Curb Lawsuits Against Vale and BHP, Sources Say
Oct 22 2024 // An agreement by Vale, BHP and their joint venture Samarco to pay 170 billion reais ($29.85 billion) in compensation for a deadly dam collapse in Brazil could end more than a hundred lawsuits against the mining companies in...
Trump Sued for Defamation by Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’
Oct 22 2024 // Donald Trump is facing a defamation lawsuit over comments he made during the September presidential debate about five men who were wrongly convicted in the 1989 jogger rape case and came to be known as the “Central...
Appeals Court Says Experts Must Show Causal Relationship in BP Oil Workers’ Suits
Oct 22 2024 // A federal appeals court has underscored the high bar that expert witnesses must meet before a court can connect the dots between exposure and illness, a ruling that could have an impact on insurance claims and toxic tort...
Murdoch Firms Dow Jones and New York Post Sue Perplexity AI
Oct 21 2024 // Media baron Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones and New York Post filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Monday, claiming the AI startup engages in a “massive amount of illegal copying” of their copyrighted...
Meta Must Face Massachusetts Social Media Addiction Lawsuit
Oct 21 2024 // Meta Platforms must face a lawsuit by Massachusetts alleging the social media company purposely deployed features on its Instagram platform to addict young users and deceived the public about the dangers it posed to the...
