Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
County in Washington Files Lawsuit Against JUUL
Nov 4 2019 // A Washington state county has filed a lawsuit against e-cigarette maker JUUL after a dozen confirmed cases of vaping-related lung illness in the state. King County’s claim accuses JUUL and its affiliates of fraud,...
Court Upholds $2.75M Damage Award Against Businessman in Missouri Arson Lawsuit
Nov 1 2019 // A Missouri appeals court has ruled a Columbia businessman is liable for a $2.75 million civil judgment awarded to a woman whose home was destroyed in an alleged arson. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District...
San Antonio Spa/Resort to Pay $2.6M to Settle National Origin Discrimination Suit
Nov 1 2019 // The former operators of a spa and resort in San Antonio, Texas, to pay $2,625,000 to settle a national origin discrimination lawsuit brought by a federal agency. The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Suit Against Facebook Alleges Age, Gender Bias in Financial Services Ads
Nov 1 2019 // Facebook Inc. was sued on Thursday in a proposed class action accusing it of discriminating against older and female users by withholding advertising for financial services such as bank accounts, insurance, investments and...
South Dakota’s Sanford Health to Pay $20M to Settle Kickback Suit
Nov 1 2019 // South Dakota-based Sanford Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, has agreed to pay more than $20 million to resolve kickback allegations stemming from a whistleblower lawsuit filed by two Sanford...
Shake Up in Missouri Police Board After Sergeant Wins $20M in Discrimination Suit
Nov 1 2019 // The chairman of a St. Louis County police board has resigned and another board member said she is being replaced after a jury found that a sergeant was discriminated against because he’s gay and recommended that he...
Colorado Fertility Doc Used Own Sperm to Impregnate Woman, Lawsuit Charges
Oct 31 2019 // A family alleges in a lawsuit that a Colorado fertility doctor used his own sperm instead of that of an anonymous donor to impregnate a woman without her consent. KUSA-TV reported that the lawsuit filed this week contends...
Trial Opens in Suit Over ‘Frankenstein’ Use of Remains by Arizona Center
Oct 30 2019 // A retired FBI agent described a horrific raid of now-closed body donation facility, recalling a table stacked with severed human legs, heads stuffed in a cooler, and torsos without heads and limbs. Mark Cwynar testified on...
Maryland’s Attorney General Sues Kushner Apartment Company
Oct 29 2019 // Maryland’s attorney general on Wednesday sued a real estate company once run by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law over allegedly illegal and harmful rental practices, including the kind of rodent infestations...
Brad Pitt, Others Can Be Sued over New Orleans Homes, Judge Says
Oct 28 2019 // A judge has denied actor Brad Pitt’s request to be taken off a lawsuit that says his Make it Right Foundation built shoddy homes in the New Orleans area that was hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina. The Times-Picayune/...
Students Sue Colleges for Saying No to Medical Cannabis
Oct 28 2019 // Colleges are becoming a battleground in the conflict between federal and state marijuana laws as students who use medical pot challenge decades-old campus drug policies. In states where medical marijuana is legal, students...
Utah Vape Shops Sue Health Department Over E-Cigarette Rule
Oct 28 2019 // Several Utah vape shops sued the state’s Department of Health over its emergency rule restricting the sale of flavored e-cigarettes amid a national outbreak of lung damage linked to vaping. In the lawsuit filed last...
Broker Gallagher Loses $12.8M Poaching Lawsuit in London Against Ardonagh
Oct 25 2019 // Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher Group lost a 10 million-pound ($12.8 million) lawsuit against rival Ardonagh Group Ltd. in a case highlighted by racially charged comments that put a spotlight on the cutthroat world of...
Massachusetts Sues Exxon for Misleading Investors, Consumers About Climate Change
Oct 25 2019 // The state of Massachusetts sued Exxon Mobil Corp on Thursday, accusing the oil giant of misleading investors and consumers for decades about the role fossil fuels play in climate change. Attorney General Maura Healey filed...
How Exxon’s Climate Change Trial Ended Up Being About Numbers
Oct 25 2019 // Climate change protesters outside a Manhattan courthouse this week expressed overwhelming support for New York’s landmark securities fraud lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, even if they weren’t entirely sure what...
Oklahoma County to Pay $12.5M to Settle Suit Over Inmate Death
Oct 24 2019 // Officials in northern Oklahoma have agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of an inmate in a restraint chair at the county jail. According to court records, the Garfield County Board of...
Woman Sues Oregon Clinic Claiming of Past Abuse by Pediatrician
Oct 24 2019 // A woman who says she was repeatedly sexually abused by her pediatrician has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the doctor’s former medical clinic in Oregon. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that the woman says the...
Several States Have Doubts About $48 Billion Opioid Settlement Offer
Oct 24 2019 // Several U.S. states that have been ravaged by the opioid epidemic are pushing back on a proposed $48 billion settlement framework that would resolve thousands of lawsuits against five drug companies accused of fueling the...
Family of Alabama Student Awarded $9M in Wrongful Death, Med Mal Suit
Oct 23 2019 // The family of an Alabama college student who died from complications of improperly prescribed birth control medication has been awarded $9 million in their wrongful death, medical malpractice suit. Court records obtained...
Ex-Salon Chief Suing Wynn Resorts for Spying on Him
Oct 22 2019 // A former beauty salon director who went public about sexual misconduct allegations against casino mogul Steve Wynn nearly two years ago is suing Wynn Resorts and company executives, alleging they invaded his privacy and...
