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U.S. Senator from Nevada Suing Exercise Band Maker over Eye Injury
Oct 9 2015 // U.S. Sen. Harry Reid is suing a company that makes and markets a flexible exercise band that he says slipped from his hand, causing him to fall and suffer eye, face and rib injuries on New Year’s Day. A lawsuit filed...
Suit Filed by Estate of Oregon Woman Who Died in Murphy Bed
Oct 9 2015 // The estate of an Ashland, Ore., woman who died after the Murphy bed she was sleeping in collapsed and locked shut has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the bed’s manufacturer. The Oregonian newspaper reported...
Fraud Class Action Claim Filed Against Fantasy Sports Sites
Oct 9 2015 // Fantasy sports companies FanDuel and DraftKings are coming under further pressure as a player in Kentucky accused them of negligence and fraud in a lawsuit. Adam Johnson, a daily fantasy player from Jefferson County, says...
Florida Resident Files $5M Suit Against Volkswagen
Oct 8 2015 // A Fort Myers law firm has filed suit against Volkswagen in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida and seeks more than $5 million in damages, accusing the carmaker of false advertising and other...
DuPont Found Liable in West Virginia Toxic Water Lawsuit
Oct 8 2015 // DuPont Co. was found liable for a woman’s kidney cancer in the first of 3,500 lawsuits over a toxic Teflon ingredient found in Ohio and West Virginia water, but spinoff Chemours Co. will have to bear any costs from...
West Virginia Files Suit Against Volkswagen Over Clean Diesel Claims
Oct 7 2015 // West Virginia may be the first U.S. state to sue Volkswagen AG for deceiving car buyers after the Environmental Protection Agency said last month that the company had installed software to hide that its diesel engines...
Federal Officials Sue Texas Firm for Disability Discrimination
Oct 7 2015 // Federal officials are suing Austin’s FEC, LLC and Austin Entertainment Center LP d/b/a Austin’s Park N Pizza, a Pflugerville, Texas-based amusement park, for violating federal law by firing an employee because...
Marijuana Pesticide Flap Draws Product Liability Suit in Colorado
Oct 7 2015 // Two marijuana users in Colorado filed a lawsuit Monday against a pot business they said used an unhealthy pesticide to grow their weed – a case that lawyers say is the first product liability claim in the nation...
Montana Governor’s Chief of Staff among Plaintiffs Suing Volkswagen
Oct 5 2015 // Gov. Steve Bullock’s chief of staff is among the plaintiffs in a Montana lawsuit against Volkswagen over the automaker’s emissions-rigging scandal. Tracy Stone-Manning, her husband Richard Manning and Missoula...
Newtown Families’ Wrongful Death Suit Against Gun Maker Sent to State Court
Oct 5 2015 // A wrongful death lawsuit filed against gun maker Remington by families of some Newtown, Connecticut, school massacre victims has been sent from federal court back to state court, where it may have a better chance of...
Supreme Court to Hear Eurail Case on Foreign Entity Liability
Oct 5 2015 // The new Supreme Court term will include high-level discussions of affirmative action, free association and religious liberty. But the first Monday in October is starting with a suit about a Eurail pass. Specifically, the...
Supreme Court Term Could Be Big for Business
Oct 5 2015 // Big business is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to curb class action litigation in a series of cases that dominate the nine justices’ business docket in the coming months. The court returns for its new term on Monday...
Suit Planned by Black Women Tossed From Napa Wine Train
Oct 2 2015 // A San Francisco lawyer says he is bringing a racial discrimination lawsuit on behalf of a mostly black women’s book club whose members were ordered off a Napa Valley train tour. Civil rights lawyer Waukeen McCoy said...
California Lab Settles Age Discrimination Suit for $37.25M
Oct 2 2015 // Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is paying $37.25 million to settle a lawsuit brought by 129 workers who say they were fired because of their ages. The Contra Costa Times reported Mike McElfresh says he was a...
Morgan Stanley Among Employers Shifting Job Bias Claims to Arbitration
Oct 2 2015 // Morgan Stanley is asking employees to give up their right to sue the firm in class actions for civil rights violations including discrimination based on race, gender or age, according to a former employee’s...
Alleged Oktoberfest Beating Prompts Utah Family to Sue Snowbird
Oct 1 2015 // A Utah family who says they were beaten by a crowd of drunken revelers at Snowbird’s Oktoberfest is suing the ski resort. The lawsuit filed Monday says that Snowbird doesn’t do enough to control the alcohol at...
Texas County Sues Automaker for $100M Over Doctored Diesels
Sep 30 2015 // The Texas county that includes Houston sued Volkswagen Group of America Inc. for $100 million, claiming the carmaker’s cheating on emission controls worsened pollution in the area. It’s believed to the the...
Walker’s Daughter Sues Porsche in California Over Fatal Crash
Sep 30 2015 // Paul Walker’s daughter sued Porsche for wrongful death Monday, claiming the sports car that her father was in when he was killed suffered from numerous design defects. The lawsuit filed by Meadow Rain Walker seeks...
Surgical Funding Firm Accused of Inflating Claims
Sep 29 2015 // A unit of Johnson & Johnson that makes artificial hips has accused a surgical funding company of seeking excessive profits from financing surgery for patients suing over the devices. The claim by DePuy Orthopaedics...
Nebraska Software Developer Awarded $43.8M in Antitrust Lawsuit
Sep 29 2015 // A Douglas County jury has awarded Omaha, Neb., software developer Baldwin Hackett & Meeks Inc. $43.8 million in a lawsuit that accused a rival software firm of violating antitrust laws and breaching a nondisclosure...
