Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Mississippi Sheriff Claims Immunity to Federal Lawsuit Over Torture of Black Men
Oct 16 2023 // The Mississippi sheriff who leads the department where former deputies pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for the torture of two Black men has asked a federal court to dismiss a civil lawsuit...
Injured Worker Refuses Suitable Job Because He Opposed Vaccination
Oct 16 2023 // It was reasonable for an injured employee who is returning to work to refuse a job that accommodated his disability because he had personal and religious objections to getting a COVID-19 vaccine. The Virginia...
Judge Denies Firm’s Claim for Hurricane Damages Lawsuit Fees
Oct 16 2023 // A federal judge rejected a request by McClenny Moseley & Associates to claim an interest in legal fees and expenses from a hurricane damage lawsuit, saying the law firm obtained its clients illegally by using a...
Mercenary Hackers Stole Data Exxon Cited in Climate Lawsuits: US Prosecutors
Oct 13 2023 // U.S. prosecutors say an Israeli private investigator used hackers to steal emails from climate activists who were campaigning against American energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp. In a sentencing memo filed on Thursday, U.S....
Brink’s Sues Air Canada After $17 Million Heist of Gold and Cash
Oct 12 2023 // An unsolved $17 million heist of Swiss gold and cash near Canada’s busiest airport has led Brink’s Co. to sue Air Canada for allegedly letting a thief slip away with the loot. Miami-based Brink’s accused...
$228M to Some Plaintiffs Who Sued Nevada Bottled Water Company After Liver Illnesses
Oct 12 2023 // A jury has awarded more than $228 million in damages to several plaintiffs who sued a Las Vegas-based bottled water company after its product was linked to liver illnesses, a newspaper reported. The Las Vegas...
Virginia Family Sues School System for $30M Over Student’s Sexual Assault
Oct 12 2023 // A teenager and her parents have filed a $30 million lawsuit against a northern Virginia school system, saying the district failed to adequately investigate and tried to cover up her sexual assault by a male student in a...
Mother of Teen Found Dead in Illinois Hotel Freezer Reaches Settlement in Lawsuit
Oct 11 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – The mother of a 19-year-old Chicago woman who was found dead in 2017 in a freezer at a suburban hotel where she had attended a party has reached a settlement in her lawsuit against the hotel and others. A...
23andMe Faces Class Action Lawsuit Following Data Breach
Oct 11 2023 // In a move that has come to be expected following most cyberattacks, two victims of the recent 23andMe data breach have filed a class action lawsuit. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
Florida Settles Lawsuit, Must Provide Denied COVID Data on Deaths, Vaccines
Oct 11 2023 // TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida will have to provide COVID-19 data to the public again after a former Democratic state representative settled a lawsuit with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis` administration over the...
SpaceX Paid Her $92K While Men Got $115K Suit in California Says
Oct 10 2023 // SpaceX was accused in a lawsuit of discrimination for allegedly paying women and minority employees less than their male and White co-workers. The proposed class action, which cites California’s Equal Pay Act, was...
Georgia Power to Pay $413M to Settle Lawsuit over Nuke Plant Cost Overruns
Oct 10 2023 // ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. will pay $413 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the utility of reneging on financial promises to one of its nuclear reactor partners. The payments to Oglethorpe Power Corp.,...
Oklahoma McDonald’s Sued for Sexual Harassment
Oct 10 2023 // A McDonald’s restaurant in Checotah, Oklahoma, operated by franchisee Arch Fellow North LLC, violated federal law when a manager sexually harassed a 17 year-old worker, and she was forced to resign, the U.S. Equal...
Another Test Case for the Supreme Court: Who Can Sue Hotels Over Disability Access
Oct 6 2023 // A few years back, Joseph Stramondo was a last-minute replacement as a conference speaker in Salt Lake City. He went online and made a reservation for a room accessible for people with disabilities. “I figured,...
New Jersey Town Sues to Overturn State’s ‘Woefully Inadquate’ Toxic Waste Deal
Oct 6 2023 // A Jersey Shore town where childhood cancer cases rose is trying to overturn a settlement between the state and the corporate successor to the company that dumped toxic waste into the water and ground for decades, turning...
Bankruptcy Judge Denies Survivors’ ‘Hopeless’ Bid to Sue Rockville Diocese Insurers
Oct 5 2023 // The judge overseeing the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre bankruptcy has denied a request by the committee representing sexual abuse claimants for permission to sue the church’s insurers, calling the filing a...
Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination in Texas A&M Faculty Fellowship Program
Oct 5 2023 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against Texas A&M University claiming a faculty fellowship program at the flagship in College Station discriminated against white and Asian male candidates. In a decision...
Elon Musk Must Face Fraud Lawsuit for Disclosing Twitter Stake Late
Oct 4 2023 // Elon Musk was ordered by a U.S. judge to face most of a lawsuit claiming he defrauded former Twitter shareholders last year by waiting too long to disclose that he had invested in the social media company, which he later...
Musk Facing Defamation Suit in Texas Over Posts That Falsely Identified Man in Protest
Oct 4 2023 // A California man who says he was harassed after Elon Musk amplified posts on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that falsely placed the man at a confrontation involving far-right protesters sued the...
AstraZeneca to Pay $425 Million to End US Lawsuits Over Heartburn Drugs
Oct 4 2023 // Britain’s AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $425 million to settle about 11,000 lawsuits in the United States that claimed its heartburn drugs Nexium and Prilosec caused chronic kidney disease. AstraZeneca did not admit...
