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Getty Images Lawsuit Says Stability AI Misused Photos to Train AI
Feb 7 2023 // Stock photo provider Getty Images has sued artificial intelligence company Stability AI Inc, accusing it in a lawsuit made public on Monday of misusing more than 12 million Getty photos to train its Stable Diffusion AI...
Root Sues Former CMO Over At Least $9.4M in Unauthorized Payments
Feb 6 2023 // Root Inc., the parent company of Root Insurance, has followed up its investigation into almost $10 million of unauthorized payments with a lawsuit against its former chief marketing officer. According to the suit, filed in...
U.S. Military Members Suing 3M Seek Dismissal of Subsidiary’s Bankruptcy
Feb 6 2023 // Current and former U.S. military members suing 3M over allegedly defective military earplugs have asked a U.S. judge to dismiss 3M subsidiary Aearo Technologies‘ bankruptcy, accusing the company of using bankruptcy...
Chicago Suburb Settles $12M Lawsuit Over Boy’s Shooting
Feb 6 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – The family of a suburban Chicago boy who was 12 when an officer shot him in the knee during a 2019 police raid will receive $12 million under a settlement of the family’s lawsuit. The settlement,...
2022 Was a Banner Year for Billion-Dollar Class Action Settlements
Feb 6 2023 // Drugmakers and distributors that settled misconduct allegations related to the national opioid epidemic led to a banner year for class-action plaintiffs in 2022, with 15 settlement agreements that totaled $1 billion or...
Closed Ill. Plant’s Ex-Operator Settles Suits for $408M
Feb 6 2023 // The former operator of a suburban Chicago medical equipment cleaning plant has agreed to pay $408 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits alleging that the now-shuttered facility exposed residents to a toxic industrial gas...
Police Settle La. Suit Over 2020 Beating of Black Man
Feb 3 2023 // SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) – A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by a Black man who said police officers in a Louisiana city threw him to the ground, slammed his face into the sidewalk and detained him in a mental...
Judge Allows New Jersey Town’s Suit to Recover $21M Spent on Beach Restoration
Feb 3 2023 // A New Jersey beach town that defied state environmental authorities and fixed its dunes that were seriously eroded by a storm can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to recover $21 million it spent bulking up its shoreline, but...
Judge Stays New Jersey Law Allowing AG Lawsuits Against Gun Industry
Feb 2 2023 // A federal judge has halted a New Jersey law allowing the state attorney general to bring civil lawsuits against the gun industry in that state. U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi granted a preliminary injunction against...
Univ. of Minnesota Football Players’ Discrimination Lawsuit Dismissed
Feb 2 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by nine former University of Minnesota football players who were accused of sexual assault in 2016 in a case that roiled the school’s football...
California Lawsuit Seeks Damages for Unarmed Mentally Ill Man Shot in Back
Feb 2 2023 // A California widow whose husband was suffering from a mental health crisis when she called a nonemergency number for help last year sued Culver City police Tuesday, alleging they shot her unarmed husband in the back as he...
Thousands of Nigerians Join Landmark Lawsuit Against Shell in UK
Feb 2 2023 // More than 13,500 Nigerians joined their communities in a lawsuit against Shell Plc before a landmark UK trial that could have far-reaching implications for parent-company responsibility over the actions of foreign...
$225K Settlement Ends Police Brutality Suit in Ohio’s Largest City
Feb 1 2023 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ Officials in Ohio’s largest city have reached a $225,000 settlement with a man who said police officers used improper force during a 2017 arrest. The Columbus City Council voted unanimously...
$32M Settlement in California Child Welfare Lawsuit
Feb 1 2023 // Central California’s Tulare County will pay $32 million to settle a lawsuit alleging its child welfare agency failed to respond to reports of abuse involving an infant boy who was hospitalized for malnutrition and...
U.S. Court Rejects J&J Bankruptcy Strategy for Thousands of Talc Lawsuits
Jan 31 2023 // A U.S. appeals court on Monday shot down Johnson & Johnson’s attempt to offload tens of thousands of lawsuits over its talc products into bankruptcy court. The ruling marked the first major repudiation of an...
Woman Who Survived Train Crash into Patrol Car Files Lawsuit in Colorado
Jan 31 2023 // A woman who was seriously injured when the parked patrol car she was detained in was hit by a freight train filed a lawsuit against police, accusing three officers of acting recklessly and failing in their duty to take...
Lawsuit: Las Vegas Strip Resorts Used Vendor to Fix Hotel Rates
Jan 31 2023 // A federal lawsuit in Nevada is seeking class-action damages for countless hotel patrons who booked rooms in Las Vegas since 2019, alleging that most hotel-casinos on the Las Vegas Strip have used a third-party vendor to...
Twitter Asks Judge to Toss Out Proposed Sex Bias Class Action
Jan 30 2023 // Twitter Inc. has asked a federal judge to toss out a proposed class action claiming the company targeted female employees during its recent mass layoffs, saying the plaintiffs failed to identify any actual...
NRA Sues Over Illinois Two-Week-Old Ban on Semiautomatic Weapons
Jan 26 2023 // SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois’ two-week-old ban on semiautomatic weapons outlaws “ubiquitous” firearms in “radical” defiance of the Constitution’s Second Amendment, a federal...
Shareholders Can Sue McDonald’s Ex-Executive in Landmark Ruling
Jan 26 2023 // Shareholders can sue McDonald Corp’s former global chief people officer for the damage they claim he caused to the restaurant chain by allegedly allowing a culture of sexual harassment to flourish, according to a...
