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Michigan Governor Wants to Sue 3M for Costs of Contamination
Jul 16 2018 // Gov. Rick Snyder wants Michigan to sue the manufacturer of chemicals linked to contaminated water detected at military bases and industrial sites across the state. Snyder wrote a letter to Attorney General Bill Schuette...
Minnesota Lawsuit Takes on Involuntary Sedations
Jul 16 2018 // An attorney for a Minneapolis, Minn. man is drawing parallels between his client’s lawsuit and the recent debate over police urging paramedics to sedate unruly people. Forty-eight-year-old John Powell says he...
Another Lawsuit From Ex-Worker in New Mexico City
Jul 16 2018 // A northern New Mexico city is facing another lawsuit from a former employer in yet another controversy involving its mayor. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports Martin Gonzales, a former public works director of Las Vegas,...
Family of Tennessee Waffle House Shooting Victim Files $100M Lawsuit
Jul 16 2018 // A woman whose son was one of four people killed at a Waffle House in Tennessee has filed a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the suspect and his father. The Tennessean reports Shaundelle Brooks filed the suit...
Mississippi Highway Patrol to Pay $500K in Lawsuit Over Fatal Wreck
Jul 16 2018 // The Mississippi Highway Patrol is paying $500,000 in a lawsuit over a fatal wreck that happened when a state trooper was driving fast on a dark highway without his blue lights flashing. The crash happened about 1:30 a.m....
Ben & Jerry’s Hasn’t Cleaned Up Its Act, Consumer Group Claims
Jul 13 2018 // It’s summer in America, and that means action-packed movies, piles of hot dogs and plenty of ice cream. But according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by a consumer food-advocacy group, if your choice of ice cream is Ben...
Pacific Bell Settles California Disability Discrimination Lawsuit With EEOC
Jul 13 2018 // Pacific Bell Telephone Co., formerly known as AT&T Pacific Bell, will pay $15,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the...
Wrongly Named Suspect in Texas Police Shooting Files Lawsuit
Jul 13 2018 // A man wrongly identified by Dallas, Texas police as a suspect in the 2016 fatal shooting of five officers has sued the city and its police department. The federal lawsuit filed Monday alleges Dallas police detained Mark...
Lawsuit Claims Virginia Cruise Ship’s No-Slip Floor Caused Cornhole Injury
Jul 12 2018 // The owners of a popular dinner cruise ship in Virginia are being sued by a customer who says the ship’s no-skid flooring worked too well. The lawsuit in federal court accuses the Spirit of Norfolk cruise ship of...
How One Hedge Fund Has Pursued $360M Financial Fraud Claim Against Big Bank
Jul 12 2018 // When the high-end property development Lake Las Vegas collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis, 31 funds that helped finance the project lost a total of $540 million. But only one of them, Dallas-based hedge fund...
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...
