Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Minnesota Gov. Dayton Vetoes Lawsuit Reform Bills
Feb 20 2012 // Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has vetoed four Republican-sponsored lawsuit reform bills, and is again criticizing the GOP as “too extreme to lead.” Dayton said at a news conference that the bills ignored court...
Judge Allows South Carolina Firm’s Twitter Lawsuit
Feb 20 2012 // A South Carolina company’s lawsuit accusing a former employee of costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost business when he took Twitter followers can go forward, a federal judge has ruled. San...
Lawsuit Seeks to Block Google’s Privacy Changes
Feb 20 2012 // A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month. The planned revisions would enable Google Inc. to bundle the...
Penn State Countersues PMA Over Coverage of Sandusky Lawsuit
Feb 17 2012 // Penn State has filed a countersuit against its primary general liability insurer, Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association (PMA) Insurance Co. PMA had filed for declaratory judgment on Jan. 31, arguing that the Blue...
Passenger in Deadly Montana Bus Crash Files Lawsuit
Feb 17 2012 // A passenger in a western Montana bus crash that left two people dead and 32 injured filed a lawsuit Tuesday in state court accusing Rimrock Stages Inc. and Greyhound Lines Inc. of negligence. The lawsuit was filed on...
Family Of Murdered Inmate Sues Hawaii, Prison
Feb 17 2012 // The family of a Hawaii inmate stabbed to death at a private prison in Arizona sued the state of Hawaii and prison operator Corrections Corporation of America on Wednesday. The legal action came after two gang members...
Lawsuit Claims Oahu Pet Store Lopped Off Dog Ear, Cut Tail
Feb 16 2012 // Two dog owners filed a lawsuit claiming their pets were mutilated while being groomed at an Oahu pet store. The lawsuit filed in state court Monday said plaintiff Gladys Kapuwai dropped off her dog Dodo for grooming at the...
5 States May Intervene In Honda Hybrid Settlement
Feb 16 2012 // A judge on Tuesday granted California and four other states more time to consider objecting to a class-action settlement between Honda Motor Co. and car owners over inflated fuel-efficiency claims about the...
D.C. Metro Settles Most Death Suits From 2009 Train Crash
Feb 16 2012 // The Washington-area Metro transit agency has settled seven of nine lawsuits by families of people killed in a 2009 train crash. Metro also told a judge it is admitting legal responsibility for the deadliest accident in the...
Family of Slain Girl Sues Georgia Apartment Complex
Feb 16 2012 // The family of a 7-year-old girl who was slain is accusing managers of her apartment complex of failing to properly check the background of a maintenance man who later confessed to killing her. The Atlanta...
Massachusetts Hotel, Workers Settle Class-Action Lawsuit Over Tips
Feb 15 2012 // About 150 current and former employees of a Pittsfield, Mass., hotel as well as hotel management have reached a $1.3 million agreement in a dispute over tips the workers claim they were entitled to but never received. The...
More Shipwreck Survivors File Lawsuits against Carnival, Costa Cruises
Feb 14 2012 // Dozens of additional survivors of the Costa Concordia shipwreck off Italy have joined a Florida lawsuit that accuses the ship’s owners of gross negligence and fraud, and asks for at least $528 million in damages. An...
New York Leads 11 States in Suing EPA Over Soot Rules
Feb 14 2012 // New York and 10 other states filed a lawsuit last Friday designed to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue new regulations on soot pollution. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the lawsuit...
Montana Nurse Settles Wrongful Discharge Lawsuit
Feb 14 2012 // A Bozeman, Mont. nurse who was fired after serving as a surrogate mother for a patient has settled her wrongful discharge lawsuit with Billings Clinic. Anicee Acosta-Yearick worked for Bozeman OB/GYN, which is owned by...
Wall Street Fights Back vs. Expert Witness in Lawsuits
Feb 14 2012 // For years, Craig McCann played a prominent role as a top expert witness, his testimony helping to win millions of dollars for investors who sued financial companies. As those victories piled up, brokerages went to war on...
BP Wins Dismissal of Part of Investor Lawsuit Over Gulf Oil Spill
Feb 13 2012 // A U.S. federal judge dismissed a large part of a nationwide lawsuit accusing BP Plc and top executives of fraud for misleading shareholders before and after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill about the oil company’s...
Oregon’s ‘Second Lawsuit’ Legislation Tabled
Feb 13 2012 // The Oregon House Judiciary Committee on Monday tabled HB 4136, a bill its detractors said would have imported “the legacy of bad faith litigation” from neighboring states into Oregon. A handful of insurance...
Lawsuit Seeks $8 Million in Murders by Oregon Sergeant
Feb 13 2012 // Relatives of two women killed by an off-duty Clackamas County, Ore., sheriff’s sergeant are seeking $8 million in a lawsuit that alleges the county, the sheriff and two top aides knew the man was dangerously...
Parents Sue Park for $2.4 Million After Oregon Toddlers’ Deaths
Feb 13 2012 // A fire that killed two toddlers is the subject of a Umatilla County lawsuit that alleges negligence on the parts of the Seattle-based management company and the trailer park manager. The suit names the toddlers’...
China Author Sues for Defamation Over Ghostwriting Claims
Feb 13 2012 // Celebrity author Han Han has filed a defamation lawsuit in Shanghai against a writer who alleges some of Han’s prolific works were penned by others. Han, a novelist and semiprofessional race-car driver popular among...
