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Wal-Mart Workers in California Denied Class Action Status in Gender Bias Case
Aug 6 2013 // Women workers at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in California suing for gender discrimination can’t pursue their claims against the retailer as a group because the evidence didn’t show they had enough in common, a judge...
2 Injured In Chicago Water Tank Fall File Lawsuit
Aug 5 2013 // Two people injured when a century-old water tank fell from a Chicago condominium building are suing the building’s owner. The complaint filed in Cook County court seeks unspecified damages. In a statement, attorney...
North Dakota Man Suing Insurance Company Over Potato Case
Aug 5 2013 // A prominent North Dakota potato farmer, businessman and philanthropist who’s among a group of people accused in an alleged price-fixing scheme is suing his insurance company for failing to cover his defense...
Travel Insurance Lawsuit Arising From Death in Aruba Dropped
Aug 5 2013 // An American Express subsidiary is dropping its complaint against a Maryland man jailed for months in the presumed death of his traveling companion in Aruba. AMEX Assurance Company sued Gary Giordano of Gaithersburg to void...
Disabled Hawaii Man Suing Delta Air Lines for ADA Violations
Aug 5 2013 // A Maui man who uses a wheelchair says he was forced to crawl through the aisle, up and down stairs and along a tarmac during a Delta Air Lines flight last year. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported that Baraka Kanaan, in...
Lawsuit Filed in Illinois Over Canadian Train Explosion
Aug 5 2013 // The family of one of 50 people who died in a fiery Canadian oil-train explosion is suing the train’s Illinois owners. The wrongful death case was filed in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of relatives of Jean-Guy...
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Dodd-Frank by 11 States and Texas Bank
Aug 1 2013 // A lawsuit by 11 states and a Texas bank challenging the Dodd-Frank law’s financial regulation overhaul was dismissed by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle in Washington Thursday ruled that the...
Judge Rejects California Suit Against Timber Co. Over Fire
Aug 1 2013 // A Plumas County judge has dismissed a state lawsuit against California’s largest timber company for a 2007 wildfire that destroyed more than 100 square miles of forest in Northern California. State and federal...
Hawaii Supreme Court Rules on Wrongful Death Suit
Aug 1 2013 // A la Moana Center had a duty to care for a woman who died after getting stuck in an exhaust duct, even though she was trespassing on the roof, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled. But the opinion also affirms parts of a lower...
Judge Won’t Toss $70M Jury Award Against Las Vegas Sands
Aug 1 2013 // A Hong Kong businessman is one step closer to collecting a multibillion-dollar award from Las Vegas Sands Corp., the largest U.S. casino company. A Nevada judge on Tuesday denied Sands’ request to throw out a jury...
Oregon Man Files Lawsuit Over Inversion Table Tryout
Jul 31 2013 // A second Oregon lawsuit has been filed this month over an inverted therapy table. The tables allow people to hang upside down, strapped to the flat surface, in hopes of relieving pain. The Eugene Register-Guard reported...
Steak ‘N Shake Sues Colorado Franchisee
Jul 31 2013 // Steak ‘n Shake Enterprises has filed a lawsuit against a former franchisee in the Denver, Colo. market amid allegations that Denver-area menu prices were allegedly $2 or more above what national ads indicated. The...
Pipe Company Suing Liberty Mutual Insurance over 2012 Arkansas Fire
Jul 30 2013 // A fire that broke out at Welspun Pipes Inc.’s Little Rock, Ark., facility last year could cost the plant $14.5 million. That’s according to a lawsuit filed by Welspun and Welspun Tubular LLC against its...
Man Sues Wyoming Walmart For Wrongful Death
Jul 30 2013 // A man who says his wife died after she ate a contaminated cantaloupe purchased at a Sheridan, Wyo. Walmart is suing the retailer. The Sheridan Press reported Frederick M. Lollar filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Laramie...
Mississippi Student Accused of Shooting Roommate Sues University
Jul 30 2013 // A former student accused of shooting his roommate in an off-campus apartment has sued the University of Southern Mississippi, alleging that it violated his rights by expelling him and tampering with his files. According to...
Kansas Couple Awarded $202K in Lawsuit Over Problem Dam
Jul 29 2013 // A Hutchinson, Kan., couple who bought a home without being told they would be responsible for maintaining a dam on the property has been awarded $202,500 in a lawsuit they filed against their real estate agent and a realty...
Judge Says Bernanke Should Testify in Greenberg’s Suit Against Bailout
Jul 29 2013 // A U.S. judge said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should be required to testify in the lawsuit by the former chief of American International Group Inc., Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, against the United States...
Relatives Of Montana Man Sue Hospital Over Opiate Patch Death
Jul 29 2013 // Relatives of a Montana man who died of a drug overdose following surgery at a hospital in Cody, Wyo., have filed a federal lawsuit claiming negligence by the hospital and medical personnel who gave him an opiate patch. The...
Victims in Meningitis Outbreak Cleared to File Product Liability Suits
Jul 29 2013 // Victims in Tennessee of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak won the right to pursue a new avenue of litigation against healthcare facilities and doctors there, after a ruling by a U.S. bankruptcy judge this week. Tennessee...
Estate of Drowned Washington Teen Files Oregon Lawsuit
Jul 26 2013 // The estate of a drowned Vancouver, Wash., teen has sued the organizers of a summer camp in Oregon, saying they endangered the boy. The lawsuit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland seeks $13 million. The...
