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Former USC Coach Loses $30M Suit over Firing
Jul 11 2018 // Former USC head football coach Steve Sarkisian has lost a $30 million lawsuit that claimed he was improperly fired by the school instead of being allowed to seek treatment for alcoholism. An arbitrator last week ruled in...
Lawsuits Against Monsanto’s Roundup Cleared for Trial
Jul 11 2018 // Hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto Co. by cancer survivors or families of those who died can proceed to trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, finding there was sufficient evidence for a jury to hear the cases that...
Halliburton Sued by Feds for National Origin, Religious Discrimination
Jul 11 2018 // Federal officials have sued Houston-based energy giant Halliburton Energy Services Inc. for subjecting two employees to national origin and religious discrimination. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...
Hawaii Schools Settle Suit Involving Teacher Recording Students for $5M
Jul 10 2018 // Kamehameha Schools in Hawaii has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by families of four former students whose teacher is accused of secretly recording them showering in his faculty apartment. The lawsuit...
Facebook in Australia Faces Potential Class Action Suit over Data Privacy Breaches
Jul 10 2018 // Litigation funder IMF Bentham Ltd is preparing to potentially sue social media giant Facebook Inc in Australia over its sharing of users’ data with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The world’s largest...
Lawsuit Claims Guggenheim Defrauded Insurance Buyers to Buy Baseball Team
Jul 6 2018 // Guggenheim Partners, overseen by billionaire Mark Walter, is facing a lawsuit claiming it defrauded annuity investors by saddling an insurance affiliate with risky assets, and siphoning cash for purposes including...
Rhode Island Attorney General Sues Fossil Fuel Companies
Jul 6 2018 // Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin filed a lawsuit Monday against 21 fossil fuel companies demanding damages associated with sea level rise and water cycles. In the complaint filed in Providence County Superior...
Washington Dockworker’s Widow Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Jul 6 2018 // The widow of a Washington state dockworker killed when a mooring line snapped on a cargo ship has filed a $15 million wrongful death lawsuit against the ship’s owner and operators. Byron Jacobs, of Longview, was...
Pork Giant Smithfield Foods Ordered to Pay $25M in Nuisance Lawsuit
Jul 5 2018 // A federal jury in North Carolina has punished the world’s largest pork producer, deciding Smithfield Foods should pay two neighbors more than $25 million for unreasonable nuisances they suffered from odors, flies and...
Group Sues Newark Over Lead Levels in Drinking Water
Jul 3 2018 // An environmental group has sued the city of Newark, N.J., alleging officials violated federal safe drinking water laws by not adequately monitoring and testing a water system that contained what it termed...
Volkswagen Accused of ‘Company-Wide’ Age Discrimination in Tennessee Suit
Jul 3 2018 // A Tennessee employee of Volkswagen AG sued the automaker and alleged that it has been systematically discriminating against older workers in wake of a massive emissions scandal that tarnished the company’s...
California Restaurant Settles Pregnancy Discrimination Suit for $82K
Jul 2 2018 // LA Louisanne Inc., a Los Angeles restaurant and jazz night club, will pay $82,500 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the...
Sisters Reach $1M Settlement in Suit Against Missouri Bar, Bouncers
Jul 2 2018 // Two sisters have reached a $1 million settlement in a lawsuit that alleged they were handcuffed to the wall of a Kansas City bar and battered because bouncers wrongly thought they had used a counterfeit $50 bill. The...
Texas Prosecutors Clear Karolyis in Sex Assault Suit; Nassar, Trainer Charged
Jul 2 2018 // Texas prosecutors on June 29 filed sexual assault charges against Larry Nassar and a trainer who worked at his side, expanding the worst abuse scandal in U.S. sports history beyond Michigan while also clearing...
NRA Sued by Artist for Using Chicago ‘Bean’ Sculpture in Video
Jul 2 2018 // The artist behind Chicago’s famous bean-shaped sculpture has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the National Rifle Association of copyright infringement by using an image of his work in a video advertisement last...
S.C. Supreme Court: Defense Counsel Can Be Sued for Malpractice by Insurer
Jul 2 2018 // The South Carolina Supreme Court recently opined that an insurer can sue an attorney it hired to defend its policyholder for malpractice. The high court in the case of Sentry Select Insurance Company v. Maybank Law Firm,...
Mississippi Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal of Crash Suit by Helicopter Pilot
Jul 2 2018 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed over a 2009 helicopter accident that left its pilot partially paralyzed. Justices ruled 6-2 that a proper complaint was not filed by Rob Hammons of...
New York Attorney General Leads Suit Against U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Jul 2 2018 // New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood, joined by Attorneys General Xavier Becerra of California and Brian Frosh of Maryland, has led a lawsuit against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for...
University of Washington to Pay $123K to Settle Free-Speech Lawsuit
Jul 2 2018 // The University of Washington will pay $122,500 to settle a lawsuit filed after the college billed a Republican club security fees for a rally. The UW College Republicans sued, saying the bill for $17,000 to cover security...
Iowa Court: Contract Workers May Sue for Wrongful Discharge
Jul 2 2018 // Two former Iowa Workforce Development judges may sue the agency for wrongful discharge after the Iowa Supreme Court made significant rulings in their cases on June 15 that could have broad implications for other state...
