Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Chicago Board of Education Faces Pregnancy Discrimination Lawsuit
Dec 23 2014 // The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Board of Education, alleging that the board discriminated against pregnant teachers at Scammon Elementary School by subjecting them to adverse personnel...
Ex-Sony Employees’ Lawsuit Blames Company For Failed Data Security
Dec 23 2014 // Sony Pictures Entertainment has been sued by two self-described former employees who accuse the movie studio of failing to protect Social Security numbers, healthcare records, salaries and other data from computer hackers...
New Jersey Beach Owner Sues to Stop Dune Project
Dec 22 2014 // A major Jersey shore beach owner is suing the state, the federal government and the borough of Point Pleasant Beach over a project to establish protective sand dunes along the state’s shoreline. Jenkinson’s...
First Lawsuits Filed Over Fatal South by Southwest Crash in Austin
Dec 22 2014 // The first wave of victim lawsuits since four people died at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, accused organizers of safety lapses after a driver smashed through a barricade and into a crowd of...
Injured Snowboarder Can Sue, Oregon High Court Rules
Dec 22 2014 // The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled a ski resort’s broad liability waiver cannot prevent a paralyzed snowboarder from suing. The justices ruled that the liability waiver was “unconscionable” and contrary...
Paralyzed California Teen’s Pop Warner Suit Can Continue, Judge Says
Dec 19 2014 // A Los Angeles judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit by a teenager who was paralyzed while making a tackle during a Pop Warner football game. City News Service says the judge on Wednesday rejected a motion to dismiss the...
Rockford, Illinois, Settles Police Shooting Lawsuit for $1.1M
Dec 18 2014 // The city of Rockford, Ill., has reached a $1.1 million settlement with the estate of an unarmed black man who was fatally shot inside a church-run day care by two white police officers in 2009, according to officials. In a...
Fired Obese Employees Can Sue for Discrimination: EU Court of Justice
Dec 18 2014 // The European Union’s highest court extended discrimination laws to obesity, saying employees in limited situations may be able to sue over firings if their weight hinders or limits them at work. Workers who are so...
Washington Artist’s ‘Angry Birds’ Lawsuit Goes Forward
Dec 17 2014 // A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Seattle, Wash. artist who designed a line of plush pet toys called “Angry Birds.” Juli Adams designed the plush “Angry Birds” toys in...
West Virginia Meatloaf Deaths Lawsuit Goes to Federal Court
Dec 16 2014 // A lawsuit blaming a restaurant’s meatloaf for the deaths of a former West Virginia state lawmaker and her husband is moving to federal court. In October, former Delegate Virginia Starcher’s family filed the...
Sandy Hook Victims’ Families Blame Bushmaster in Lawsuit for Shooting
Dec 16 2014 // The maker of the military assault rifle used to kill dozens at a Connecticut elementary school was sued almost exactly two years later by the families of 20 first-grade students who died in the mass shooting. The...
New York Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Red-Light Cameras
Dec 16 2014 // New York City won dismissal of a lawsuit challenging its red-light cameras, the first in the U.S., the day before New Jersey is scheduled to shut down its program. Drivers fined for running traffic lights sued the city in...
Federal Judge Rejects Bid to Delay Morgan Lawsuit
Dec 15 2014 // Tracy Morgan has won the latest round in his effort to sue Wal-Mart and others over a fatal crash in New Jersey. A federal judge on Dec. 12 refused to delay the lawsuit. The ruling came on a motion by Kevin Roper, the...
Suit Over California Patient’s Death Ends in $3M Settlement
Dec 15 2014 // The family of a California patient who went missing for more than two weeks before being found dead in a stairwell at a San Francisco hospital has settled a lawsuit for $3 million. The San Francisco Chronicle reported...
Idaho Company Sues Over Damaged Fries
Dec 15 2014 // Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co. has filed a lawsuit against a railway company after a large freight carrying french fries traveling to Georgia spoiled because it wasn’t properly sealed. According to the lawsuit, the...
Minnesota Archdiocese Sues Insurance Companies for Coverage
Dec 15 2014 // The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota said it is suing some 20 insurance companies to try to force them to cover its liabilities for clergy sex abuse claims. The complaint, filed in federal court, says...
Appeal Filed by 49ers Fan Who Sued NFL and Lost
Dec 15 2014 // A San Francisco 49ers fan who sued the NFL, the Seattle Seahawks and Ticketmaster because he was barred from buying playoff tickets has appealed a judge’s order to dismiss the case. John Williams III of Las Vegas...
Stamford, Conn., Tries to Shift Liablity in Slip-and-Fall Suits
Dec 12 2014 // The city of Stamford, Connecticut, is trying to shift legal liability in slip-and-fall lawsuits to private property owners. The Stamford Advocate reports that Mayor David Martin has submitted legislation to put legal...
Wrongful Death Suit Filed in Louisiana over Offshore Platform Explosion
Dec 12 2014 // The wife of a man killed in a Nov. 20 explosion on a Fieldwood Energy platform has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Louisiana that claims the victim and his crew were told the piece of equipment...
Enbridge Settles Michigan Oil Spill Class-Action Lawsuit
Dec 12 2014 // The Canadian company responsible for a 2010 oil spill in southwestern Michigan has agreed to pay about $6.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit. A federal judge must still approve the settlement reached last week by...
