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Oregon Climate Change Lawsuit Seeks $50B, Citing 2021 Heat Wave
Jun 22 2023 // An Oregon county on Thursday sued Exxon XOM.N, Chevron CVX.N, other major oil and coal companies, and industry groups, seeking over $50 billion to counter the harms caused by extreme weather fueled by climate...
Lawsuit: Insufficient Testing of Titanic Sub Put Passengers in ‘Potential Extreme Danger’
Jun 22 2023 // The company whose submersible vanished in the North Atlantic on a tourist dive to the wreck of the Titanic was repeatedly warned that there might be “catastrophic” safety problems with the venture, documents...
Colorado Supreme Court Strikes Law Allowing Child Sex Abuse Suits from Decades Past
Jun 22 2023 // Childhood sexual abuse victims in Colorado will no longer be able to file lawsuits over abuse that happened decades ago, as the state Supreme Court struck down a law Tuesday that gave victims a three-year window to sue...
Indiana Community Hospital Sued for Disability Discrimination
Jun 21 2023 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a suit it filed against Munster Medical Research Foundation, Inc., operators of Community Hospital, located in Munster, Indiana, for failing to accommodate...
FTC Sues Amazon for Hindering Consumer Attempts to Cancel Prime
Jun 21 2023 // The US Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon.com Inc. Wednesday, alleging the e-commerce giant duped consumers into signing up for its Prime membership service and deliberately made it hard to cancel. The consumer...
Twitter Employees Sue Company, Claiming It Refuses to Pay 2022 Bonuses
Jun 21 2023 // Twitter Inc. employees sued the social media company claiming it refuses to pay 2022 bonuses, despite promises that they would be paid out at 50% of their target amounts. Twitter has a cash performance bonus plan that is...
Lawsuit Claims Teen was Assaulted After Getting Drunk at Greg Norman’s Fla. Home
Jun 21 2023 // LIV Golf leader Greg Norman and his wife are being sued by a high school girl who says she was sexually assaulted at their Florida home by two boys during a party where alcohol was served to her, her alleged attackers and...
Family Suing California Cemetery After Remains of Juneteenth Trailblazer Missing from Burial Plot
Jun 21 2023 // Relatives of a late Black businessman who helped popularize Juneteenth in San Diego are suing a cemetery after his remains were reported missing from the family’s burial plot. Greenwood Memorial Park and Mortuary...
7th Circuit: Insurer Must Defend Firm Sued for Selling Facial Recognition Program to Chicago Police
Jun 20 2023 // An ambiguous coverage exclusion prevents a liability insurer from dodging the cost of defending a data broker that was sued after selling the Chicago Police Department access to a facial recognition database that...
Wisconsin School District to Pay $450K to Settle Equal Pay Lawsuit
Jun 20 2023 // Verona Area School District in Madison, Wisconsin will pay $450,000, raise salaries, and furnish other relief to settle a pay discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the...
Louisiana Health Care Provider Sued by EEOC for Race Harassment and Retaliation
Jun 20 2023 // The Council for the Advancement of Social Services and Education, doing business as CASSE Community Health Institute, violated federal law when it subjected a Black employee to a hostile work environment on the basis of...
Report: McClenny Moseley Filed More Insurance Lawsuits Than Any Other Law Firm
Jun 20 2023 // A $2 million fine, sanctions by federal courts and state bar orders that prevent its partners from practicing law do not change the fact that McClenny Moseley Associates filed more lawsuits in 2022 than any other US law...
Gannett Sues Google, Alleges Online Ad Monopoly
Jun 20 2023 // Gannett Co Inc, the largest U.S. newspaper chain, on Tuesday sued Google, accusing the social media company of violating federal antitrust law by trying to monopolize the market for online advertising. The publisher of USA...
Former Chair Ghosn Sues Nissan for $1B in Lebanon
Jun 20 2023 // Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn has sued the company for more than $1 billion in a lawsuit filed to Lebanon’s public prosecutor last month, according to a copy of the lawsuit seen by Reuters. The lawsuit filed on...
University of Delaware Settles Class Action Over COVID Campus Shutdown
Jun 20 2023 // The University of Delaware has agreed to pay $6.3 million to settle a lawsuit over its campus shutdown in 2020 and the halting of in-person classes because of the coronavirus pandemic. According to court papers that were...
Family of Ohio Black Man Killed by Police Sue Officers, City, Alleging Excessive Force
Jun 19 2023 // AKRON, Ohio (AP) – The eight police officers who shot Jayland Walker last summer used excessive force when they fired 94 bullets at him during a foot chase and participated in a “culture of violence and...
Railroad Industry Sues to Block New Locomotive Pollution Rules in California
Jun 19 2023 // The railroad industry sued to block new environmental rules in California, arguing they would force the premature retirement of about 25,000 diesel-powered locomotives across the country long before their zero-emission...
Family Sues Harvard Medical School Over Theft of Body Parts Donated for Research
Jun 19 2023 // The son of a woman whose body was donated to Harvard Medical School for research purposes filed a class-action lawsuit on Friday on behalf of all families who believe their loved ones’ body parts were mishandled by...
Billionaire Reuben Brothers Sue Trafigura Over Nickel Fraud
Jun 19 2023 // Trafigura Group is being sued by the billionaire Reuben brothers, as the fallout of a massive nickel fraud reverberates through global metal markets and ensnares some of the industry’s best-known figures. Legal...
Fatal Blaze at Texas Refinery to Result in Lawsuits Against Oil Refiner Marathon
Jun 19 2023 // Attorneys representing the family of a worker who was killed in a fire at a Texas City, Texas, refinery and another worker who was hospitalized said on Wednesday they have filed or would soon file injury claims against top...
