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Dartmouth Settles Lawsuit Over Sexual Misconduct by Professors for $14M
Aug 9 2019 // Dartmouth College announced Tuesday that it has settled a contentious federal lawsuit with nine women who sued the school over allegations that it ignored years of harassment and assault by former psychology department...
Louisiana Painting, Sandblasting Company to Pay $90K to Settle Disability Lawsuit
Aug 8 2019 // The U.S. employment practices watchdog agency says a Louisiana company will pay $90,000 to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit. Tamco Professional Coating Services Inc. (Tamco) has agreed to pay a foreperson...
Apple Faces Privacy Lawsuit Over Listening to Siri Users’ Recordings
Aug 8 2019 // Apple Inc. was sued over claims that the privacy of Siri users was violated when human reviewers listened to customer recordings. The lawsuit was filed as a class action Wednesday, just days after Apple said it would pause...
California Manufacturer of Fire Protection Spray Sued for $5M
Aug 7 2019 // A $5 million lawsuit has been filed against a Los Angeles County company that sells a product it contends helps protect homes from wildfires. The Santa Barbara County district attorney and the Los Angeles city attorney...
UCLA Gynecologist Hit with Class Action Lawsuit
Aug 7 2019 // Two women said in a federal class action lawsuit they were sexually assaulted by a former gynecologist who worked for the University of California, Los Angeles. The lawsuit states Dr. James Heaps sexually assaulted the...
Vanderbilt Doctors Admit Operating on Wrong Kidney in $25M Patient Suit
Aug 7 2019 // Two doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have said under oath that they mistakenly operated on the wrong kidney during a 2017 surgery. The Tennessean reports Dr. Kelvin Moses, a Vanderbilt assistant professor of...
Baltimore County Settles Excessive Force Suit for $1M
Aug 7 2019 // Baltimore County will pay more than $1 million to settle claims by the family of a 21-year-old who died days after an encounter with police officers and medical workers. The Baltimore Sun reported Monday on the...
Judges May Be Reaching Limit with Copyright Profiteering by Pornography Sellers
Aug 6 2019 // Pornography producers and sellers account for the lion’s share of copyright-infringement lawsuits in the U.S. — and judges may have seen enough. The courts are cracking down on porn vendors that file thousands...
State’s Purdue Opioid Suit Tests Holding Family, Purdue Directors Liable for Crisis
Aug 5 2019 // Massachusetts took Purdue Pharma LP to task in a Boston courtroom Friday, blaming the opioid maker and the billionaire Sackler family that owns it for causing “thousands of people to suffer and many to...
Texas High Court Clarifies Bad Faith in Appraisal Process
Aug 2 2019 // An insurer’s payment of the appraisal value after disputing a claim does not establish that it was liable, nor does that payment prevent a policyholder from pursuing penalties under the Prompt Payment of Claims Act,...
Louisiana Flood Victims End Lawsuit Against Trump, HUD Over Disaster Aid
Aug 2 2019 // Two Louisiana homeowners who sued the Trump administration over federal policies that stalled grants for victims of a massive 2016 flood have dropped their lawsuit, after the administration recently released new...
Hawaii Retailers Sued for Mislabeling Kona Brew
Aug 2 2019 // Hawaii coffee farmers have filed a lawsuit against major retailers after scientific tests confirm Kona coffee is mislabeled as authentic. West Hawaii Today reported Tuesday that three Kona coffee farmers say a coffee...
Family of Florida Man Killed in Autopilot Crash Sues Tesla
Aug 2 2019 // Tesla Inc. was sued for the second time in three months by the family of a car owner who was killed in a crash while using the driver-assistance system Autopilot. Jeremy Banner, 50, died when the Model 3 sedan he was...
State, Local Governments Debate How to Best Allocate Any Opioid Settlement Funds
Aug 2 2019 // The roughly 2,000 state and local governments suing the drug industry over the deadly opioid crisis have yet to see any verdicts or reach any big national settlements but are already tussling with each other over how to...
Gun Maker Appeals to Supreme Court Over Liability for Sandy Hook
Aug 2 2019 // The maker of the assault-style rifle used in the 2012 mass shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, school asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn a court ruling that allowed families of the victims to sue the...
Official: Harris County Sues Exxon Over Air Pollution from Petrochemical Fire
Aug 1 2019 // Exxon Mobil Corp. was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday over pollution from a fire at the company’s Baytown Olefins Plant, according to an attorney for Harris County, Texas, which filed the suit. The fire was being...
University Lawsuit Accuses Big Retailers of Infringing ‘Reinvented’ Light Bulb Patent
Jul 31 2019 // Five major retailers, including Amazon.com Inc and Walmart Inc, were sued on Tuesday by the University of California over what it called the “existential threat” when foreign manufacturers infringe...
Kentucky Teen’s $250M Defamation Suit Against Washington Post Dismissed
Jul 31 2019 // A federal judge has thrown out a Kentucky teen’s lawsuit accusing the Washington Post of falsely labeling him a racist following an encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial. Nicholas Sandmann, a...
Lawsuit: Tennessee City Violated Civil Rights in Disbanding Police Department
Jul 30 2019 // A Tennessee city is accused of violating the civil rights of its police department when it abruptly disbanded the agency last month. The Tennessean reports Ridgetop police chief Bryan Morris and the department’s four...
Detroit Company to Pay $120K to Settle Pregnancy Discrimination Suit
Jul 30 2019 // Federal officials say an airline ramp and cargo handling company that operated at Detroit Metropolitan Airport will pay $120,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit. The suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
