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Louisiana Furniture Retailer Sued for Race Discrimination
Sep 28 2022 // Affordable Rent-to-Own, LLC, doing business as Affordable Home Furnishings, a furniture retailer and lessor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, violated federal law when it subjected an African American manager-in-training to a...
EU Draft Rules Would Make It Easier to Sue Drone Makers, AI Systems
Sep 28 2022 // Individuals and companies that suffer harm from drones, robots and other products or services equipped with artificial intelligence software will find it easier to sue for compensation under EU draft rules seen by...
Appeals Court Won’t Certify Class Action on State Farm’s Diminished Value Formula
Sep 28 2022 // Auto and property insurers in the last three months have settled class-action lawsuits in Southern states alleging the carriers systematically underpaid claims. A federal appeals court in Georgia has decided a similar...
EEOC: Indiana-Based Pharmaceutical Corporation Sued for Age Discrimination
Sep 27 2022 // Lilly USA, LLC, a pharmaceutical corporation based in Indianapolis, Indiana, violated federal law by intentionally failing to hire older workers based on their age for pharmaceutical sales representative positions from...
Louisiana Marine Services Company Sued for Disability Discrimination
Sep 27 2022 // Eagle Marine Services Electrical & Refrigeration, LLC, a marine services company based in Berwick, Louisiana, violated federal law when it refused to hire or accommodate a worker because he used medication prescribed...
Eli Lilly Sued for Age Discrimination by EEOC
Sep 27 2022 // Eli Lilly and Co was sued on Monday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which accused the drugmaker of illegally refusing to hire older workers for sales representative jobs because of their age. The...
California County Paying Pay $1.35M in Custody Death Suit
Sep 27 2022 // San Diego County and other defendants have agreed to pay $1.35 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the mother of a Mexican citizen who died after sheriff’s deputies arrested him in 2018, officials said. The lawsuit...
Mother Settles Suit Over Texas Arrest Caught on Camera
Sep 26 2022 // A Texas city has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a Black mother after she and her daughter were wrestled to the ground and arrested by a white police officer following a dispute with a neighbor. Jacqueline...
Arkansas Machine Shop Sued for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation
Sep 26 2022 // Ranger Tool and Die, Inc. (Ranger), an industrial machine shop with locations in Paragould and Jonesboro, Arkansas, violated federal law when it failed to prevent sexual harassment at its Jonesboro location and then...
Privacy Watchdog Suit Says California Utility Targeted Asians in Pot Searches
Sep 26 2022 // Extraordinary use of electricity has long been a telltale sign of illegal grow houses producing thousands of marijuana plants hidden in seemingly ordinary homes. But a lawsuit filed by a data privacy watchdog says a...
Banks Face Risk of Being Sued if They Don’t Stick to Their Climate Goals: ECB
Sep 23 2022 // Banks face the risk of being sued if they don’t stick to their climate goals or try “greenwashing” their image, a top European Central Bank (ECB) supervisor said on Thursday. Major Wall Street banks have...
Cities of Paris and New York Join Climate Litigation Against TotalEnergies
Sep 23 2022 // The cities of Paris and New York have joined a coalition of associations and local authorities that are suing oil major TotalEnergies for failing to adequately fight climate change, the coalition said in a statement on...
Viewpoint: Significant Ruling in PFAS Litigation Could Impact Insurance Coverage
Sep 23 2022 // Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, commonly known as PFAS, have served as a key component in numerous industrial and consumer products for decades. These “forever chemicals,” which have been associated with...
New York AG’s Financial Fraud Suit Against Trump Details Insurance Scenarios
Sep 22 2022 // Donald Trump and the Trump Organization used false and misleading statements of financial condition to obtain favorable real estate loans and insurance coverage over the last decade, according to a 222- page civil...
Walmart, CVS Agree to Settle West Virginia Opioid Suit for $147 Million
Sep 22 2022 // Walmart and CVS Pharmacy have settled with the state of West Virginia for a combined total of $147 million in a lawsuit over the companies’ roles in contributing to the oversupply of prescription drugs that fueled...
Trump Accuser Plans New Lawsuit Under New York’s Abuse Survivors Law
Sep 22 2022 // A writer who accused former President Donald Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room intends to file another lawsuit against him under a new New York law letting sexual assault victims sue over attacks that...
Family Sues Little League World Series Over Head Injury From Bunk Bed Fall
Sep 22 2022 // A Utah boy who suffered a serious head injury after falling from a bunk bed during last month’s Little League World Series in Pennsylvania has returned home from the hospital and his family is suing the league and...
Jury Awards Illinois Woman $363 Million in Suit Over Plant’s Toxic Gas
Sep 22 2022 // A jury has awarded $363 million to a woman who alleged that a now-shuttered suburban Chicago plant that sterilized medical equipment exposed residents to a toxic industrial gas and gave her breast cancer. After a five-week...
Cancer Victims Urge Court to End J&J Bankruptcy Roadblock to Lawsuits
Sep 22 2022 // People suing Johnson & Johnson over the company’s talc products urged an appeals court on Monday to revive their claims, saying the profitable company should not be allowed to use a bankrupt subsidiary to block...
McDonald’s Ordered to Face Byron Allen’s $10B Discrimination Lawsuit
Sep 21 2022 // McDonald’s Corp. has been ordered by a U.S. judge to defend against media entrepreneur Byron Allen’s $10 billion lawsuit accusing the fast-food chain of “racial stereotyping” by not advertising with...
