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Idaho Supreme Court Sends Slip-And-Fall Suit Against Walmart Back to Lower Court
Apr 25 2018 // The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled that a lower court must once again review a slip-and-fall lawsuit against Walmart. The Idaho Statesman reported Diane Brooks sued the retail giant for negligence in November 2014 after...
Monkey Loses Court Fight Over Selfie Copyright to Human
Apr 25 2018 // A U.S. appeals court this week favored humans over animals in a novel copyright lawsuit filed over a series of entertaining selfies taken by a monkey with a toothy grin. U.S. copyright law does not allow lawsuits that seek...
What the 9/11 Lawsuits Can Teach Us About Arizona’s New English-Only Law
Apr 24 2018 // On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, a conspiracy of 19 men hijacked four planes departing from three different cities. The two planes that departed from Boston were flown, with 17 minutes of one another, into the two towers...
Macy’s to Pay $75K to Settle Federal Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Apr 24 2018 // Macy’s will pay a former long-term employee $75,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed in Illinois filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). According to the federal...
Oregon Woman Paralyzed in Wreck Files $30M Suit Against Bars
Apr 24 2018 // An Oregon woman paralyzed from the waist down after an intoxicated friend’s vehicle crashed into a house has filed a lawsuit against six businesses that she says served alcohol to the driver before the accident...
South Carolina High School Coach Files Whistleblower Suit Over Firing
Apr 24 2018 // A basketball coach is suing a South Carolina school district, saying he was fired because he blew the whistle on issues such as grade-changing and covering up sexual harassment. The Morning News of Florence reports Andre...
Court Reinstates Lawsuit Against Website in Wisconsin Spa Shooting Case
Apr 23 2018 // A state appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit against operators of a website that facilitated the purchases of a gun used in a mass shooting in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin, five years ago. Radcliffe Haughton killed his...
Lance Armstrong, US Government Settle Lawsuit for $5M
Apr 23 2018 // Lance Armstrong reached a $5 million settlement with the federal government in a whistleblower lawsuit that could have sought $100 million in damages from the cyclist who was stripped of his record seven Tour de France...
Maintenance Boss in Washington Sues for Wrongful Firing
Apr 23 2018 // A former state supervisor of maintenance workers on McNeil Island is suing Washington state, contending he was wrongfully terminated for trying to correct problems with work performance. Jon Hardy filed a lawsuit against...
Louisiana Auditor: State Spent $5M on Sexual Harassment Lawsuits
Apr 19 2018 // Louisiana has spent more than $5 million on lawsuits involving sexual harassment claims since 2009, the state’s legislative auditor said in a new report released Tuesday on the eve of debate on bills targeting sexual...
Patent Litigation Insurer RPX Insurance Services Partners with Great American
Apr 19 2018 // Great American Insurance Company and RPX Insurance Services, LLC (RPXIS), a wholly owned subsidiary of RPX Corporation, have entered into a limited binding authority agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, RPX...
Michigan Official: Tugboat Company Facing Suit Over Great Lakes Cable Damage, Spill
Apr 18 2018 // Recent damage to underwater oil and electrical lines in the waterway connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan that’s blamed for an insulation fluid spill was caused by a tugboat dragging its anchor, Michigan’s...
Colorado Exxon Suit Proves Climate Change Concerns Not Unique to Coasts
Apr 18 2018 // Most cities suing oil companies over the impact of climate change want help paying for walls to protect against rising sea levels. And then there’s Boulder, Colo. The politically liberal town known as the gateway to...
InfoWars Host Jones Faces Defamation Suit by Sandy Hook Victims’ Families
Apr 18 2018 // The parents of two children killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012 sued Alex Jones, the host of InfoWars, who had derided the shooting as fake and possibly staged by the government. Leonard Pozner and Veronique De...
Family of Man Shot by Police Files Suit Against Washington City
Apr 17 2018 // The family of a Native American man fatally shot by police who mistook a cellphone for a gun has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Lakewood, Wash. and police involved in the 2015 shooting. The Seattle Times...
Terrorist Attack Victims Seek to Restart Lawsuit Against Facebook After Zuckerberg Testimony
Apr 17 2018 // A lawyer for victims of terrorist attacks in Israel on Monday urged a federal appeals court to revive their lawsuit against Facebook Inc., saying Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony undermined the social media...
Facebook Facing Potential Multi-Billion Dollar Liability in Biometric Litigation
Apr 17 2018 // Facebook Inc. may have to pay a real price for claims it invaded users’ privacy: billions of dollars. A federal judge ruled Monday that millions of the social network’s users can proceed as a group with claims...
Family of Oregon Cyclist Files $32.5M Wrongful Death Suit
Apr 16 2018 // The family of a central Oregon woman killed while on her bicycle has filed a $32.5 million wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of a pickup who has also been charged with manslaughter in connection with the...
USA Gymnastics Sues Insurance Carriers Over Nassar Lawsuit Costs
Apr 13 2018 // Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics is suing its insurance carriers, alleging that they haven’t fully reimbursed it for defense costs incurred in lawsuits filed by victims of disgraced former sports doctor Larry...
West Virginia Sues Equifax Over Data Breach
Apr 13 2018 // West Virginia sued Equifax Inc on Thursday for failing to safeguard consumer information of hundreds of thousands of state residents and for delaying alerting the public to a breach that exposed the personal data of about...
