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Lawyers Say St. Jude’s Lawsuit Against Short-Seller Faces Steep Climb

Sep 8 2016 // St. Jude Medical will face an uphill battle in its corporate defamation lawsuit over a short-seller’s report that said the medical device company’s heart implants were vulnerable to cyber attacks, lawyers...

Court Rules Massachusetts Law Applies in Rhode Island Contamination Suit

Sep 8 2016 // The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that Massachusetts law should apply in deciding whether Narragansett Electric Co. (NEC), a Rhode Island-based utilities provider, is entitled to insurance coverage for...

Lloyd’s Wins Right to Keep Oklahoma Quake Damage Lawsuit in New York

Sep 8 2016 // Lloyd’s of London has kept its lawsuit against New Dominion LLC over fracking out of the state where the ground is shaking. A federal judge in New York agreed Wednesday to decide the lawsuit by Lloyd’s seeking...

Appeals Court Grants Uber Pro-Arbitration Ruling, Thwarting Drivers’ Class Action

Sep 7 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc.’s arbitration agreements were largely ruled by an appeals court to be valid and enforceable in a blow to driver efforts to secure the benefits and protections of employees in California. The...

Congress Likely to Pass Bill Allowing 9/11 Victims to Sue Saudi Arabia

Sep 7 2016 // The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote this week on Senate-passed legislation that would allow families of the Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for liability in the attacks. Rep. Peter King of New York, the...

St. Jude Files Suit in Minnesota over Heart Device Allegations

Sep 7 2016 // St. Jude Medical Inc. said it had filed a lawsuit against short-selling firm Muddy Waters and cyber security company MedSec Holdings Ltd. alleging they intentionally disseminated false and misleading information in order...

Court Allows Banana Farmers’ Toxic Pesticide Claims Against Fruit, Chemical Firms

Sep 7 2016 // Hundreds of banana farmers from Central America and South America will again have their day in court, after a U.S. appeals court on Friday revived six lawsuits accusing several big fruit and chemical companies of sickening...

Family of Tennessee Man Who Died While Scuba Diving in Florida Sues Dive Shop

Sep 7 2016 // The wife of a Tennessee man who died during a scuba dive in the Florida Panhandle is suing the dive shop. The News Herald reports the lawsuit filed Aug. 30 in Panama City claims negligence against Coast Adventures LLC,...

Two Johnson & Johnson Talc Cancer Lawsuits Dismissed by New Jersey Judge

Sep 6 2016 // Johnson & Johnson persuaded a New Jersey judge to throw out two women’s lawsuits blaming the health-care company’s talcum powder for their ovarian cancer. The ruling may help J&J fend off more than...

Uber Must Face Claims of Creating Fake Lyft Accounts

Sep 6 2016 // While Uber Technologies Inc. fights to keep its own drivers out of court with their grievances, it can’t force arbitration on Lyft Inc. drivers who accuse the ride-hailing behemoth of dirty tricks. Uber will have to...

Judge Nixes Users’ Privacy Class Action Against Facebook

Sep 6 2016 // Facebook Inc. defeated a bid for a group lawsuit claiming the company illegally gave its users’ personal information to advertisers, with a judge ruling the plaintiffs didn’t have enough in common to pursue a...

West Virginia Residents Sue Over 17K Gallon Chlorine Leak From Plant

Sep 6 2016 // West Virginians are suing one of the nation’s largest chlorine producers after a cloud of chlorine gas leaked from a railcar inside a company chemical plant near their homes. Attorney Jim Bordas says the Aug. 27...

Family of Arizona Instructor Killed by Girl with Uzi Sues Gun Range

Sep 6 2016 // The family of an Arizona shooting range instructor accidentally killed by a 9-year-old girl with an Uzi has sued the business, alleging it should not have allowed a child to use the high-powered weapon. The wrongful-death...

Brown & Brown in Florida Denies EEOC Allegations of Pregnancy Discrimination

Sep 6 2016 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed suit against national insurance brokerage firm Brown & Brown, based in Daytona Beach, Fla., over allegations it violated the Civil Rights Act by...

Indiana Court Considering Wounded Officer’s Suit against Gun Seller

Sep 2 2016 // The Indiana Supreme Court is considering whether a police officer’s lawsuit against the sporting goods store that sold a handgun later used to wound him can go forward despite a state law giving gun sellers...

Idaho Family Sues Over Baby’s Death in Hospital Medication Mix-up

Sep 2 2016 // An Idaho family is suing a nurse and the health care company he works for after their 7-month-old baby died when given the wrong medication at a Twin Falls hospital. Chance and Tiffany Elliott filed the wrongful death...

Judge Dismisses Lawsuits Over 2013 Shooting at Pennsylvania Town Building

Sep 2 2016 // A federal judge has dismissed three lawsuits filed against township officials in connection with a 2013 shooting at a municipal building in Pennsylvania that left three people dead and several others injured. The...

Banks Hike Caps on Directors’ Pay Hoping to Fend Off Lawsuits

Sep 2 2016 // Over the past two years, a growing number of U.S. banks has capped their directors’ earnings, but the ceilings are so high that they primarily serve to fend off potential shareholder litigation rather than control...

Ex-Miss Utah’s Case against Provo Dismissed by High Court

Sep 1 2016 // Citing an unpaid court fee, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former Miss Utah who says she was wrongly arrested on suspicion of stealing from the skin-care company Nu Skin. The lawsuit against the city...

Judge Finds $28M Uber Offer to Settle Rider Fee Class Action Unfair

Sep 1 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc. was dealt a second rejection of a legal settlement, this time in a case over claims the company misled riders when it charged them a $1 “safe rides fee” that earned the company almost...