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Judge Eyes Sanctions Against Tx. Law Firm for Filing Frivolous Lawsuits
Dec 28 2022 // A law firm that was called into a federal judge’s courtroom to explain why there were so many errors in the hurricane lawsuits it filed against insurers now finds itself in hot water with a second federal judge. US...
FTX Customers File Class Action to Lay Claim to Dwindling Assets
Dec 28 2022 // FTX customers filed a class action lawsuit against the failed crypto exchange and its former top executives including Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday, seeking a declaration that the company’s holdings of digital assets...
Lawsuits Alleging Maine Church Knew About Sex Abuse Now Number 14
Dec 23 2022 // Two more people have filed lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by a Roman Catholic clergy member and a nun — both deceased — raising the number to over a dozen since Maine loosened the statute of limitations last year. One...
Michigan Sues Paper Company Over PFAS-Contaminated Waste
Dec 22 2022 // PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) _ The state of Michigan is accusing a former paper mill owner of sending contaminated waste to a composting site for decades in the Thumb region. The lawsuit seeks payments from Domtar Industries for...
Michigan’s Proctor Financial to Pay $67K Over Retaliation Suit
Dec 22 2022 // Proctor Financial, Inc., an insurance company based in Troy, Michigan that provides insurance products for residential and commercial properties, will pay $67,000 to settle a retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal...
Women Sexually Abused by ICU Nurse Sue Colorado Hospital
Dec 22 2022 // Two women who say a nurse sexually assaulted them while they were unconscious in intensive care filed a lawsuit against the Colorado hospital where they were being treated, alleging the hospital’s management...
Suits Over Carolina Cheerleader Abuse Allegations Now Include Racketeering Claims
Dec 22 2022 // A series of lawsuits beginning in South Carolina have detailed the alleged sexual abuse of at least 20 cheerleaders across six states. The anonymous plaintiffs have accused coaches, choreographers and others of illicit...
Monsanto Moves to Halt School Demolition by Vermont City Suing It Over PCB Chemicals
Dec 22 2022 // BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The manufacturer of chemicals that are forcing Vermont’s largest city to tear down its high school wants to block the demolition, saying that would result in the destruction of...
Navajo Company Sues BNSF Railway Over Coal Transportation
Dec 22 2022 // One of the largest coal producers in the United States has sued a major freight railroad, alleging it breached a contract to transport coal from Montana for use overseas. The Navajo Transitional Energy Co. alleges that...
Ohio’s Oberlin College Completes Paying Out $25M Judgment in Libel Lawsuit
Dec 21 2022 // OBERLIN. Ohio (AP) – Oberlin College has completed paying out a $25 million judgment to an Ohio bakery that won a libel lawsuit against the school after a shoplifting incident involving three Black students. The...
City of Buffalo Sues Gunmakers Under Public Nuisance Law
Dec 21 2022 // The upstate New York city of Buffalo on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in state court accusing major gun manufacturers of fueling violence through irresponsible marketing and sales practices. Defendants in the lawsuit include...
Kentucky Supreme Court Clears Cincinnati Insurance of $4.6M Verdict in Bad-Faith Suit
Dec 21 2022 // Cincinnati Insurance Co. dodged a $4.6 million judgment last week when the Kentucky Supreme Court found that a trial judge should have preempted a jury and granted a directed verdict in a bad-faith claim. If the injured...
$698M Deal Ending Oregon’s Monsanto PCB Pollution Lawsuit
Dec 21 2022 // Bayer, the German pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, will pay Oregon $698 million to end a lawsuit over PCB pollution associated with products made by Monsanto, the agriculture giant it now owns. It’s the...
Judge Halting Provision Making California Gun Lawsuits Costlier
Dec 19 2022 // A federal judge said he will block a provision in a new California law to take effect next year that gun advocates argued was designed to hinder anyone from challenging the state’s famously restrictive gun laws. U.S....
Transgender Worker Sues New Hampshire Employer Alleging Bias in Health Plan
Dec 19 2022 // A transgender woman in New Hampshire filed a discrimination complaint Friday against the manufacturing company where she works as a machinist, challenging its exclusion of gender-transition health coverage. The complaint...
Lawsuit Against State Farm Alleges Racial Discrimination in Claims Handling
Dec 16 2022 // State Farm’s claims handling process is the subject of a new lawsuit alleging disparities between the insurer’s treatment of claims from Black policyholders versus claims from white policyholders. The suit...
Twitter Must Notify Laid-Off Workers of Pending Lawsuit, Judge Rules
Dec 16 2022 // Twitter Inc must notify the thousands of workers who were laid off after its acquisition by Elon Musk of a proposed class action accusing the company of failing to give adequate notice before terminating them, a San...
California School District Sued in Student’s Overdose Death
Dec 16 2022 // The mother of a 15-year-old girl who died of a suspected fentanyl overdose in a high school restroom has filed a negligence and wrongful-death lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District. Elena Perez seeks...
Fired Police Accountability Director in Idaho Files Lawsuit
Dec 15 2022 // The director of Boise’s police watchdog group who was put on leave earlier this month has been fired, and he has filed a lawsuit against the city. Mayor Lauren McLean’s office said the decision to place Office...
Monsanto Balks as Vermont City Sues Over PCB Contamination of School
Dec 15 2022 // BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The school board in Vermont’s largest city on Monday sued the manufacturer of chemicals that are forcing the city to tear down its high school and build a new one at an estimated cost of more...
