Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Reebok, Nike Settle Suit Over Tebow Apparel Sales
Apr 10 2012 // Reebok International Ltd. agreed to settle a lawsuit by rival Nike Inc. and will stop selling New York Jets football apparel with the name of the team’s popular new quarterback, Tim Tebow. According to settlement...
Fired Montana Blue Cross Official Files Lawsuit
Apr 10 2012 // A former chief marketing officer for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana who says she was fired for reporting illegal actions by the company that had the potential to lead to higher insurance premiums has filed a lawsuit...
Florida Homeowners Association Could Be Sued in Martin Shooting Case
Apr 10 2012 // If Trayvon Martin’s family sues over his death, they might not target George Zimmerman but instead the homeowners association of the neighborhood where the shooting happened and Zimmerman lived. That’s because...
Oregon Judge Dismisses Climate Change Lawsuit
Apr 9 2012 // A Lane County Circuit Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by two Eugene, Ore. girls and their mothers that accused Gov. John Kitzhaber of failing to protect the state’s resources against climate change. Judge...
Montana Jury Awards Damages In Landslide Lawsuit
Apr 9 2012 // A Gallatin County jury has awarded over $1 million in damages to two couples who unknowingly purchased property on an active landslide at a private ski resort and golf community in southwestern Montana in 2005. Last...
Blue Cross Sues Over Running Nebraska Health Plan
Apr 6 2012 // Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska has filed a lawsuit to block the state’s planned switch to a new health insurance company, alleging improper lobbying on United Healthcare’s behalf. The Lincoln Journal...
Trucker Harassment Class-Action Suit Backfires
Apr 5 2012 // They were learning to become truck drivers but wound up in a nightmare. In detailed accounts to a federal agency, dozens of female employees of an Iowa-based trucking company, one of the largest in the nation, told of...
Fishermen Settle Suit With Pacific Seafood in Oregon
Apr 4 2012 // Fishermen who alleged that an Oregon company used its size to hold down the prices it paid for seafood have settled their suit and won’t get any damages or see the company broken up. The Eugene Register-Guard...
Facebook Launches Patent Counterclaim Against Yahoo
Apr 4 2012 // Facebook fired back on Tuesday in its legal battle with Yahoo by accusing the Web pioneer of infringing 10 of Facebook’s patents, according to a court filing. The counterclaim from Facebook, filed in a San Francisco...
Chevron, Transocean Face New Multi-billion Brazil Lawsuit; ‘Outrageous’ Say Companies
Apr 4 2012 // A Brazilian federal prosecutor on Tuesday launched his second 20 billion real ($10.9 billion) lawsuit against U.S. oil company Chevron and driller Transocean, doubling the stakes against the companies as critics call him...
Santa Fe Sues Aeropostale For Not Paying Living Wage
Apr 3 2012 // The city of Santa Fe is suing retailer Aeropostale, accusing the teen-centric store of not complying with a city ordinance that requires employers to pay a minimum wage. Santa Fe’s “living wage” ordinance...
Judge Rules Lowe’s Suit Can Proceed Against Idaho
Apr 3 2012 // A federal judge has ruled in favor of former Idaho Transportation Director Pamela Lowe on a key legal question of her wrongful termination lawsuit against the state. U.S. District Judge Ronald Bush in a decision filed...
Corps Seeks Dismissal of Missouri Breached Levee Lawsuit
Apr 2 2012 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit brought on behalf of more than 140 southeast Missouri farmers over damage caused by last year’s intentional breach of the Birds Point levee at the...
Bond Insurer Ambac Sues JPMorgan Over Mortgage Losses
Apr 2 2012 // Ambac Financial Group Inc., the bond insurer that last month won court approval to emerge from bankruptcy, has sued JPMorgan Chase & Co. to recover losses on securities it insured that were made by a unit of the former...
Settlement Reached In Web Libel Lawsuit
Mar 30 2012 // A Longmont, Colo. woman has taken down several critical web postings to settle a libel lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by recycOil, a grease and oil recycling company. According to the Boulder Daily Camera, Jennifer Hronkin...
Mom Sues Florida Hospital for Cutting Off Baby’s Finger
Mar 30 2012 // A young mother is suing a central Florida hospital after a nurse accidentally snipped off the end of her baby’s pinky finger. An attorney for Veronica Olguin said the nurse at the Heart of Florida Regional Medical...
Judge Won’t Dismiss Massey Shareholder Suit Over Safety
Mar 30 2012 // A federal judge refused Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit by former Massey Energy shareholders who say they were deliberately misled about the company’s safety record before the Upper Big Branch mine disaster in West...
Judge Throws Out Investor Lawsuit Against Bank of America Over Mortgages
Mar 30 2012 // Bank of America Corp. on Thursday won dismissal of a lawsuit by investors who wanted the bank to buy back mortgage loans that underlie more than $1.06 billion of securities. The case is tied to risky home loans issued by...
Iowa Pension Fund Sues Audit Firm Over Fraud Loss
Mar 29 2012 // The Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System has sued a New York-based auditing firm, alleging that the company failed to detect a theft scheme that cost the pension fund millions of dollars. The Des Moines Register...
Lawsuit Filed In Michigan In Fatal September Helicopter Crash
Mar 29 2012 // The estate and family of a man who died in a northern lower Michigan helicopter crash in September claims in a lawsuit that negligence contributed to the accident that killed him and another Detroit-area man. A lawsuit was...
