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TikTok, Transit Agencies Face Wrongful Death Suit Over New York Teenager’s Death
Mar 23 2023 // Chinese company ByteDance and its popular social media platform TikTok are facing a wrongful death suit in New York over the 2022 death of a teenager. The suit alleges that TikTok sent thousands of unsolicited suicidal...
GM Must Face Class Actions Over Defective Transmissions
Mar 23 2023 // A federal judge in Detroit certified class actions for drivers in 26 U.S. states who accused General Motors Corp. of producing faulty transmissions for about 800,000 vehicles from the 2015 to 2019 model...
Zuckerberg, Meta Are Sued for Failing to Address Sex Trafficking, Child Exploitation
Mar 22 2023 // A new lawsuit accuses Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms Inc. executives and directors of failing to do enough to stop sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. The complaint made...
Commerzbank Executive Wins £300,000 in Sex Discrimination Suit
Mar 22 2023 // A Commerzbank AG manager won more than £300,000 ($366,650) in a sex discrimination lawsuit following a long-standing legal battle with the bank. Jagruti Rajput, who was a senior compliance officer at the firm’s...
Google Asks London High Court to Throw Out Lawsuit Over Medical Records
Mar 22 2023 // Google asked London’s High Court on Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the tech giant by a British hospital trust. The Royal Free London NHS Trust...
Philadelphia Agrees to $9.25M Settlement Over 2020 Protest Lawsuits
Mar 22 2023 // Philadelphia officials announced a $9.25 million settlement Monday with hundreds of people over several lawsuits challenging the police response to the protests and civil disorder in 2020 after George Floyd’s death...
Rite Aid Faces Securities Suit Over Allegedly Filling Unlawful Opioid Prescriptions
Mar 21 2023 // A Rite Aid Corp. shareholder on March 20 filed a securities class action lawsuit against the company as well as former and current executives, alleging Rite Aid has given false or misleading statements regarding its...
Hawaii Officers, Sued Charged in Alleged Crash Coverup
Mar 20 2023 // Honolulu prosecutors filed charges against four police officers alleging a cover-up in connection with a high-speed car chase that they say resulted in a crash and a traumatic brain injury to the driver of another...
Norfolk Southern Shareholders Sue Over Ohio Derailment
Mar 20 2023 // Norfolk Southern Corp. shareholders have accused the railroad of defrauding them by prioritizing profit over safety prior to last month’s derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio. In...
Hawaii Businessman Sued for $2M After Grounding Luxury Yacht
Mar 17 2023 // A business owner whose luxury yacht ran aground and leaked diesel fuel into waters off the Hawaiian island of Maui last month is being sued for more than $2 million in damages by a trust that sold him the vessel. The...
Wichita, Kansas Settles Fatal SWAT Shooting Suit for $5M
Mar 17 2023 // The city of Wichita on Tuesday approved a $5 million settlement of a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who was shot and killed by a police officer during a hoax call in 2017. The settlement will go to the two children...
Connecticut Gunmaker Sued by Son of Colorado Supermarket Shooting Victim
Mar 17 2023 // The son of one of 10 people killed at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 is suing gun-maker Sturm, Ruger & Co. over how it marketed the firearm used in the massacre – following the litigation road map set by families...
Albany Diocese Files for Bankruptcy Protection Amid Sex Abuse Litigation
Mar 16 2023 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York as it, like other dioceses in the state, faces hundreds of lawsuits by survivors of sexual abuse by priests. Bishop Edward B....
Citgo’s Lawsuit Against Lloyd’s Insurer Over Seized Venezuelan Oil Gets Go-Ahead
Mar 16 2023 // Citgo Petroleum Corp. may move forward with an attempt to collect more than $40 million it claimed from insurers after Venezuelan authorities in 2020 seized almost a million barrels of its oil. US District Judge Gregory...
Mexico Launches Appeal in Suit Against U.S. Gun Makers
Mar 16 2023 // Mexico has filed an appeal in a civil lawsuit against U.S.-based gun manufacturers, it said on Wednesday, looking to crack down on the trafficking of weapons to powerful drug cartels. A U.S. judge in September dismissed...
Dutch Court Finds Facebook Misused Data in Class Action Lawsuit
Mar 16 2023 // A Dutch court hearing a class action lawsuit on Wednesday found that a European subsidiary of Meta, Facebook Ireland, improperly used personal data of Dutch citizens between 2010 and 2020, saying the company had...
Miner BHP Potentially Faces $44B Lawsuit in London Over Brazil Dam Collapse
Mar 16 2023 // Mining group BHP Group is potentially facing a 36 billion pound ($44 billion) lawsuit in London over Brazil’s worst environmental disaster after the number of claimants more than tripled to 700,000, their lawyers...
Lawsuit Blames Philadelphia Rowhouse Fire That Killed 12 on City Agency, Lighter Importer
Mar 16 2023 // The first lawsuit filed over a Christmas tree fire in Philadelphia – which killed 12 members of an extended family last winter – accuses the city’s Housing Agency of lax oversight of the three-story...
Green Groups Sue Biden Admin Over Approval of Alaska Willow Oil Project
Mar 15 2023 // Six environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday over the Biden administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil and gas project in Alaska, which they claimed could be a stepping stone to more...
Maine Lobster Industry Files Defamation Suit Over California Aquarium’s Whale Warning
Mar 15 2023 // A coalition representing the Maine lobster industry is suing an aquarium on the other side of the country for recommending that seafood customers avoid buying a variety of lobster mostly harvested in their state. Industry...
