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Monsanto Has Another Legally Risky Chemical Product
Aug 21 2018 // Some Bayer AG investors were surprised to learn about the thousands of farmers lining up before U.S. courts to argue that Roundup — the blockbuster weedkiller the German company recently acquired when it bought...
Washington Lawmaker Sues University, Investigator over Firing
Aug 20 2018 // Republican Rep. Matt Manweller is suing Central Washington University and the investigator it hired to look into allegations of inappropriate conduct. Manweller, a political professor at the college since 2003, was fired...
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, LSU Sued by Parents After Son’s Death
Aug 20 2018 // The parents of a Louisiana State University freshman who died of alcohol intoxication last year after an alleged fraternity hazing filed a federal lawsuit against the university board, the fraternity and several of the...
Jury Orders Pork Producer to Pay $473.5M in North Carolina Nuisance Lawsuit
Aug 20 2018 // A federal jury decided Aug. 5 that the world’s largest pork producer should pay $473.5 million to neighbors of three North Carolina industrial-scale hog farms for unreasonable nuisances they suffered from odors,...
School System in North Carolina County Accused of Neglect, Discrimination in Suit
Aug 17 2018 // A lawsuit filed against a North Carolina school system and its board of education says an elementary school in need of repairs was discriminated against because of race. The Winston-Salem Journal reports the lawsuit, filed...
Hy-Vee Sued by Minnesota Family Sickened by Tainted Pasta Salad
Aug 17 2018 // A Minnesota family sickened by eating pasta salad contaminated with salmonella is suing the Iowa-based grocery store chain that distributed the food. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday against Hy-Vee Inc. The suit alleges a...
Missouri Corrections Officers Awarded $113.7M in Overtime Lawsuit
Aug 17 2018 // A jury has awarded Missouri prison guards compensation for work they performed before and after their shifts. A Cole County jury on Aug. 14 awarded $113.7 million to 13,000 current corrections officers or those who worked...
Washington Lawsuit Says College Dean Raped Assistant
Aug 17 2018 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against Bellevue College claiming the school, and by extension Washington state, fostered a hostile work environment by failing to protect her from a former dean. SeattlePI.com reported the...
President Trump Urges U.S. Suit Against Opioid Manufacturers
Aug 17 2018 // President Donald Trump said Thursday he wants the U.S. government to sue pharmaceutical companies that manufacture opioids as part of his efforts to halt an epidemic of drug addiction. Trump said he’d like to bring a...
Investor Sues AT&T Over Cryptocurrency Theft
Aug 16 2018 // U.S. entrepreneur and cryptocurrency investor Michael Terpin filed a $224 million lawsuit on Wednesday against telecommunications company AT&T, accusing it of fraud and gross negligence in connection with the theft of...
Mississippi Supreme Court Allows Privacy Suit Against Google to Move Forward
Aug 16 2018 // Mississippi’s Supreme Court says a state lawsuit against Google alleging violations of student privacy should stay in a northeast Mississippi court. The court voted 6-2 Aug. 9 to deny an appeal by the unit of...
South Carolina City Settles Suit Over High-Speed Chase Death for $1M
Aug 16 2018 // An upstate South Carolina city will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit involving a bystander who died when hit by a wrong-way driver pursued by police. The Greenville News reports a municipal insurance fund will pay...
Murphy Oil USA to Pay $100K to Settle Disability Discrimination, Retaliation Suit
Aug 15 2018 // Arkansas-based Murphy Oil USA Inc. will pay $100,000 to settle a workplace discrimination suit filed in Texas by federal officials. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit against Murphy Oil,...
New York Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma Over Opioids
Aug 15 2018 // New York state on Tuesday sued Purdue Pharma LP, accusing the OxyContin maker of widespread fraud and deception in the marketing of opioids, and contributing to a nationwide epidemic that has killed thousands. The state...
Exxon Loses Bid to Nix Investors’ Suit Over Climate Change Disclosure
Aug 15 2018 // Exxon Mobil Corp. must face a lawsuit by investors who blamed a drop in the company’s shares on the disclosure that regulators were scrutinizing its reserve accounting related to climate change. U.S. District Judge...
Mississippi Woman Sues Pepperidge Farm Over Contaminated Goldfish Crackers
Aug 15 2018 // A Mississippi woman is making a federal case out of a life-threatening bout with salmonella that she blames on Goldfish crackers. The Clarion Ledger reported Friday that 26-year-old Bailey Finch is accusing Pepperidge Farm...
Judge Dismisses Certain Claims in West Virginia Industrial Fire Suit
Aug 14 2018 // A federal judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit in connection with an industrial fire in West Virginia. The Parkersburg News and Sentinel reports U.S. District Judge Thomas E. Johnson dismissed most of the claims made in a...
Tesla CEO Musk Just Made It Easier for Shareholders to Sue: Viewpoint
Aug 14 2018 // On Monday morning, six days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he was thinking about taking the company private at $420 a share, with “funding secured” for the transaction, Tesla published a blog post in...
Kentucky Supreme Court Hears Arguments Over Med Mal Review Panels
Aug 10 2018 // After Ezra Claycomb was born with severe brain damage and cerebral palsy, his mother considered filing a medical malpractice lawsuit. But in 2017, Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a law requiring...
Texas’ Murex Petroleum Sued for Allowing Racial Harassment, Hostile Workplace
Aug 9 2018 // A Texas-based oil and gas company, operating in Tioga, N.D., violated civil rights law by subjecting an African-American employee to a hostile work environment based on his race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
