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Female Customers Sue Lyft Alleging Sexual Assaults by Drivers
Aug 13 2019 // Lyft Inc.’s image as the “woke” ride-hailing company faces a new challenge from a rash of lawsuits filed by women who claim they were sexually assaulted by drivers summoned to take them home after...
Rhode Island Worker Sues City Over Alleged Whistleblower Retaliation
Aug 13 2019 // A Providence, Rhode Island, city employee who says she was compelled to resign from her previous position after years of reporting coworkers’ fraudulent credit card spending is suing the city. The Providence Journal...
James Levine’s Lawsuit Against Met Opera Has Been Settled
Aug 13 2019 // Conductor James Levine’s breach of contract and defamation lawsuit against the Metropolitan Opera has been settled. A lawyer for Levine and the company made the announcement last Tuesday but did not disclose terms of...
3 Sue Louisiana Pipeline Owner, Others Over Bayou Bridge Protest Arrests
Aug 12 2019 // Three people protesting construction of a south Louisiana oil pipeline last year were illegally arrested and assaulted, they claim in a lawsuit filed Aug. 9 against the pipeline’s owners, a security company, a...
Las Vegas Suit Alleges Wayne Newton’s Monkey Bit Girl Visiting His Home
Aug 12 2019 // Entertainer Wayne Newton is being sued by a Las Vegas woman who claims the veteran crooner’s pet monkey bit and injured her daughter during an invited visit to Newton’s showpiece mansion nearly two years...
6 Washington Patrol Troopers Sue Ford Over Carbon Monoxide
Aug 12 2019 // Six Washington State Patrol troopers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Ford Motor Company saying their patrol vehicles gave them carbon monoxide poisoning. KOIN reported the lawsuit, filed last week in Clark County...
Idaho Tribe Sues Mining Company Over Pollution
Aug 12 2019 // The Nez Perce Tribe has filed a lawsuit to force a Canadian company to clean up an idle central Idaho mining area – which the company says it plans to do if it gets approval from U.S. officials to restart mining at the...
Insurer MBIA Sues Banks Over ‘Financial Tragedy’ of Defaulted Puerto Rico Bonds
Aug 12 2019 // Bond insurance company MBIA Inc. sued several financial institutions on Thursday over their role in underwriting billions of dollars of Puerto Rico bonds that eventually went into default. The lawsuit filed in superior...
Facebook Must Face Privacy Class Action Over Collecting Biometric Data
Aug 12 2019 // A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook Inc.’s effort to undo a class action lawsuit claiming that it illegally collected and stored biometric data for millions of users without their consent. The 3-0...
Lawsuit Says Manufacturer, Rancher Caused Oregon Wildfire
Aug 9 2019 // A lawsuit says a rancher, workers and the John Deere farm equipment company are at fault for a wildfire that burned parts of an Oregon Native American reservation. The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs filed the...
Bayer Proposes to Settle U.S. Roundup Lawsuits for $8 Billion: Bloomberg
Aug 9 2019 // Bayer AG is proposing to pay as much as $8 billion to settle more than 18,000 U.S. lawsuits alleging its Roundup herbicide causes cancer, according to people familiar with the negotiations. An agreement, which could take...
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...
