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Judge Limits Delaware’s Sweeping Climate Change Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Companies
Jan 14 2024 // A judge has rejected several claims lodged by Delaware’s attorney general in a lawsuit alleging that the fossil fuel industry has downplayed the risks of climate change. Tuesday’s ruling significantly narrows...
Judge Says Lawsuit vs. Parkland School Deputy Can Go to Trial
Jan 12 2024 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A lawsuit filed by families of the 17 people killed and other victims of the Parkland, Florida, school massacre against a former sheriff’s deputy who failed to intervene can go forward,...
Harvard Sued by Jewish Students Over ‘Rampant’ Antisemitism
Jan 12 2024 // Harvard University was sued by Jewish students who claim the school has failed to punish campus antisemitism that soared after the Hamas attack on Israel and helped lead to the ouster of President Claudine Gay. Harvard...
California Man Gets Prison for False Sex Assault Claims in $100M Suit Against Hollywood Executives
Jan 11 2024 // A California man was sentenced to four years in prison for seeking to win a $100 million lawsuit by making false sexual assault claims against Hollywood executives. Rovier Carrington, 34, of Los Angeles was sentenced in...
Class Action Numbers Dip in 2023, but Settlements Still Costing Billions
Jan 11 2024 // Class-action and government enforcement lawsuits continued to take a toll on corporate defendants in 2023, with ten $1 billion settlements and a total cost of $51.3 billion, according to a report released Tuesday by the...
Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Over 2022 Philadelphia Fire That Killed 9 Kids, 3 Adults
Jan 10 2024 // Families of the 12 people killed in a Philadelphia row house fire that began in a Christmas tree two years ago sued a pair of city agencies Friday, claiming unsafe conditions on the property violated the victims’...
Supreme Court Allows Minnesota Lawsuit Against Fossil-Fuel Industry to Proceed
Jan 9 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Minnesota’s lawsuit against major actors in the fossil-fuel industry may proceed in state court. Without comment, the Court denied the petition of defendants ExxonMobil, the American...
OpenAI Claims New York Times Isn’t ‘Telling the Full Story’ in Suit
Jan 9 2024 // OpenAI publicly addressed a lawsuit from the New York Times in a strongly worded blog post on Monday, saying the newspaper’s complaint was “not telling the full story” about its use of Times data. The...
Prominent Black Church in New York Sued by Yale Professor for Gender Bias
Jan 9 2024 // A Yale professor has filed a federal gender discrimination lawsuit against a prominent Harlem church after it did not hire her for its senior pastor job. The suit brought by Eboni Marshall Turman accuses Abyssinian Baptist...
Lawsuit Says Compensation Delayed for Victims of Worst Wildfire in New Mexico History
Jan 8 2024 // A new lawsuit has been filed against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, alleging compensation has been delayed for victims of the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history. FEMA is responsible for...
Customer Sues Dunkin Donuts Over ‘Exploding’ Toilet in Florida
Jan 8 2024 // ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A customer has filed a negligence lawsuit against Dunkin`, claiming he was injured by an exploding toilet at one of the coffee chain`s locations in central Florida. Paul Kerouac is seeking more...
Microsoft, OpenAI Hit With New Lawsuit by Authors Over AI Training
Jan 8 2024 // OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft were sued on Friday in Manhattan federal court by a pair of nonfiction authors who say the companies misused their work to train the artificial-intelligence models behind the...
Oregon Judge Refuses to Dismiss 2015 Climate Lawsuit Filed by Youth
Jan 5 2024 // A judge in Oregon rejected a U.S. Department of Justice request to dismiss a 2015 lawsuit brought by young people that alleges the federal government knew the dangers posed by carbon pollution but that it has continued...
Florida Bad-Faith Suit Survives Even Though Policy Limits Paid and Sinkhole Excluded
Jan 5 2024 // Just because an insurer paid the full policy limits on a claim, and argues that the damages weren’t even covered, doesn’t mean it can escape a bad-faith lawsuit. It’s the type of court decision that has...
SpaceX Sues US Agency That Accused it of Firing Workers Critical of Elon Musk
Jan 5 2024 // Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Thursday sued a U.S. labor board to block its case accusing the company of illegally firing employees who sent a letter to company executives calling CEO Elon Musk “a distraction...
New York City Sues 17 Bus Companies for Transporting Migrants From Texas
Jan 5 2024 // New York City on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing 17 bus companies of illegally transporting more than 33,000 migrants to the city from Texas as part of a campaign by the state’s Republican governor to expel people...
Sex Abuse Lawsuit Against Former Southern Baptist Convention Leader Settled
Jan 4 2024 // The Southern Baptist Convention and others have reached a confidential settlement in a high-profile lawsuit that accused a former leader of sexual assault, ending a six-year legal drama that helped prompt a broader...
Nebraska Hotel Owners Agree to $100K Settlement to Resolve Discrimination Suit
Jan 4 2024 // The owners and operators of a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, have agreed to pay $100,000 to a former general manager and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
EEOC Says No Need to Pause Lawsuit Against Tesla for Race Bias
Jan 4 2024 // A U.S. anti-discrimination agency has asked a federal judge to reject Tesla Inc’s bid to pause a lawsuit alleging widespread racial bias at the electric carmaker’s flagship Fremont, California, assembly...
Kennedy Cousin Whose Murder Conviction Was Overturned Sues Cop, Connecticut Town
Jan 4 2024 // Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, whose murder conviction in the 1970s killing of a teenager in Connecticut was overturned, is suing the lead police investigator in the case and the town of Greenwich for alleged malicious...