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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...
Kansas School District Sued by Feds Over Unequal Pay
Aug 8 2018 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a Kansas school district alleging it paid a female principal less than it paid the man she had replaced and less than the man who succeeded her. A complaint filed...
One Drugmaker Sues Another to Pay Damages from Opioid Marketing Lawsuits
Aug 8 2018 // Allergan Plc on Thursday sued Pfizer Inc. to require its rival to cover any damages it is forced to pay as a result of hundreds of lawsuits claiming Allergan deceptively marketed an opioid it acquired from a company Pfizer...
EEOC, N.C. Golden Corral Restaurant Settle Harassment, Disability Suit for $85K
Aug 8 2018 // Jax, LLC, which operates a Golden Corral restaurant in Matthews, N.C., has agreed to pay $85,000 and provide other relief to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), according to a...
Kentucky City Settles Police Shooting Lawsuit for $1.8M
Aug 8 2018 // Louisville officials have settled a lawsuit over a 2017 police shooting for $1.8 million. The Louisville Courier Journal reports the city’s chief financial officer, Daniel Frockt, announced that the lawsuit filed by...
Illinois Supreme Court Says Woman Can Sue City Over Sidewalk Fall
Aug 7 2018 // The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a woman who was injured after tripping on a poorly maintained sidewalk can move forward with a lawsuit against the city of Danville. The Champaign News-Gazette reports the...
Judge Sends Oklahoma’s Lawsuit Against Opioid Makers Back to State Court
Aug 7 2018 // U.S. judge has determined that a lawsuit the state of Oklahoma filed against the makers of opioids does not “necessarily rise” to a federal issue. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange in...
Praise and Concern Over New Jersey’s Plan to Sue Over Pollution
Aug 7 2018 // New Jersey’s new push to sue people and companies responsible for pollution has environmental groups applauding and business interests raising questions and concerns. After two terms of Republican Chris Christie,...
U.S. Passengers File Lawsuits Against Aeromexico over Plane Crash
Aug 7 2018 // Eleven U.S. passengers who survived an Aeromexico crash in the northern Mexican state of Durango on July 31 filed lawsuits against the airline in Chicago on Monday, according to a statement by Chicago-based attorneys...
BNSF Settles Suit from Montana Derailment Agreeing to Pay $750K on Repairs
Aug 6 2018 // BNSF Railway has agreed to pay the U.S. government $200,000 and spend up to $750,000 on road repairs to settle claims that the company failed to pay for damages caused by a 2011 train derailment in northwestern Montana,...
New York Seeks Dismissal of NRA Suit Claiming ‘Blacklisting’
Aug 6 2018 // The National Rifle Association is suffering grave financial harm that threatens its ability to pursue its advocacy mission because of a “blacklisting” campaign by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York regulators, the...
BMW Korea to Launch Vehicle Recall After Spate of Engine Fires; Class Action Filed
Aug 6 2018 // BMW’s South Korean unit apologized over a spate of engine fires, estimated by the country’s transport ministry at 27 over January to July, that has prompted a government probe and a major backlash from...
Jury Orders Pork Producer to Pay $473.5M in North Carolina Nuisance Lawsuit
Aug 6 2018 // A federal jury decided Friday 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,...
Judge Tosses Pulse Nightclub Survivor Lawsuit Against Orlando Police
Aug 6 2018 // A judge has dismissed a lawsuit which claimed police officers didn’t do enough to stop the gunman responsible for a massacre at a Florida nightclub, but he gave survivors and family members two weeks to file another...
Class-Action Status OK’d in Oklahoma Suit Over Earthquakes
Aug 6 2018 // Central Oklahoma residents won’t get a trial this fall for a case against an oil company accused of triggering earthquakes that damaged homes and buildings. A Cleveland County judge has outlined rules for the...
