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Idaho Investment Firm at Heart of Trade-Secret Lawsuit
Jul 21 2016 // An Idaho-based software company is being sued after it hired two former employees from another company. The lawsuit, brought by SS&C Technologies Inc. against Clearwater Analytics and former SS&C employee Bradley...
North Carolina Restores Workers’ Ability to Sue Over Workplace Discrimination
Jul 20 2016 // Minor changes to a North Carolina law limiting protections for LGBT people have been signed by the governor. Legislators left the law mostly intact during their yearly session. They did make a change requested by...
3 States Sue Volkswagen, Charge Cover-Up of Diesel Fraud Went on for Years
Jul 20 2016 // Senior executives at Volkswagen AG including its former chief executive covered up evidence that the German automaker had cheated on U.S. diesel emissions tests for years, three U.S. states charged on Tuesday in civil...
U.S. Expected to Sue to Stop Anthem, Aetna Deals
Jul 20 2016 // U.S. antitrust officials are poised to file lawsuits to block Anthem Inc.’s takeover of rival health-insurer Cigna Corp. and Aetna Inc.’s deal to buy Humana Inc., according to a person familiar with the...
Suit Seeks to Force UK PM to Consult Parliament Before Initiating Britain’s EU Exit
Jul 20 2016 // A lawsuit seeking to force Prime Minister Theresa May to consult parliament before beginning Britain’s exit from the European Union will be taken “very seriously” and may reach the Supreme Court by...
Takata Settles Airbags Lawsuit With Florida Driver’s Estate
Jul 19 2016 // Takata Corp. agreed to settle a lawsuit in Florida with the estate of a driver of a Honda Civic who claimed to have been left a quadriplegic because of a dangerous airbag in the vehicle. Terms of the settlement...
States to Sue VW Over Diesel Scandal
Jul 19 2016 // New York and Maryland are among several states planning to sue Volkswagen AG over the environmental damage done by devices that were designed by the carmaker to cheat on pollution-control tests. Maryland Attorney General...
Retired Pro Wrestlers Sue WWE Over Head Injuries
Jul 19 2016 // World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. was sued on behalf of Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka and dozens of other retired wrestlers who claim the company hid the long-term effects of neurological injuries from years of being...
$30M Settlement with Bristol-Myers Squibb in California Whistleblower Suit
Jul 18 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones reached a $30 million settlement with pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb over allegations of drug marketing fraud and physician kickbacks. The settlement stems from...
Federal Government Sues California Homeowner for $25M over Wildfire
Jul 18 2016 // The federal government is suing a California homeowner for nearly $25 million, contending his negligence sparked a 2013 fire in the mountains east of Los Angeles that forced 5,000 people from their homes. The lawsuit says...
Switch Sues Nevada Regulators, NV Energy over Efforts to go Solar
Jul 15 2016 // A data-storage center company sued Nevada electricity regulators and NV Energy this week, saying it got an unfair deal when it tried to leave the grid and suffered at the hands of a former state employee who tweeted about...
Woman Who Broke Ankle on L.A. Skyscraper Slide Files Suit
Jul 15 2016 // A lawsuit claims a woman suffered a broken ankle on a recently opened glass-enclosed slide attached to the exterior of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper. City News Service says the lawsuit filed this week against building...
House GOP Wants Democratic AGs’ Records on Climate Change Suit Against Exxon
Jul 15 2016 // Escalating a political fight over global warming, a Republican House chairman issued subpoenas this week to two Democratic state attorneys general, seeking records about their investigation into whether Exxon Mobil misled...
Baton Rouge Police Sued by ACLU, Other Groups over Protests
Jul 14 2016 // Civil rights groups and activists sued Baton Rouge law enforcement agencies over their treatment of protesters rallying against the police shooting death of a black man, saying officers used excessive force and physically...
Family of Girl Who Choked on Marshmallow Sues Parents Who Hosted Party
Jul 14 2016 // The family of an 11-year-old Massachusetts girl who died after choking on a marshmallow at a friend’s birthday party has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages in the death of...
Court Removes GM Bankruptcy Shield on Ignition Switch Claims
Jul 14 2016 // General Motors’ 2009 bankruptcy does not shield it from lawsuits over a deadly ignition-switch defect that led to criminal charges against the automaker and prompted the recall of 2.6 million vehicles in 2014, a...
Insurers Lose Bid to Dismiss Suit Over Bear Stearns Financial Crisis Settlement Costs
Jul 14 2016 // A decade ago, Bear Stearns Cos. agreed to pay $250 million to resolve regulators’ claims that it was at the center of a system that allowed clients to break mutual-fund trading rules. JPMorgan Chase & Co., which...
Louisiana Judge: City-Parish to Remain in Lawsuit over Sewer Hole Drowning
Jul 13 2016 // A state judge has refused to dismiss the city-parish from a lawsuit by the mother of a 4-year-old Baton Rouge boy who drowned in an abandoned sewer hole near his home in 2014. The East Baton Rouge City-Parish government...
Ex-Workers Allege Age Discrimination, Sue Spirit AeroSystems in Kansas
Jul 13 2016 // Twenty-four workers laid off by Spirit AeroSystem in 2013 have sued the aircraft parts maker alleging it targeted older workers covered by its health insurance who had costly medical conditions. The former employees,...
Fox News’ Ailes Says Anchor’s Harassment Suit Against Him Belongs in Arbitration
Jul 13 2016 // Lawyers for Fox News chairman Roger Ailes on Friday asked a judge to halt anchor Gretchen Carlson’s “shameless publicity campaign” against her former boss, and send her sexual harassment lawsuit against...
