Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Supreme Court Hears Whether ERCOT is Immune From Lawsuits
Jan 10 2023 // Lawyers argued before the Texas Supreme Court on Monday over whether the state’s power grid operator should be protected from lawsuits, a question that has become especially important after the deadly February 2021...
Washington Schools Suing over Social Media Harm
Jan 9 2023 // The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among...
Mississippi Farms Settle Suits Over South African Laborers’ Higher Wages
Jan 9 2023 // Two agriculture businesses in the Mississippi Delta and some Black farm workers have settled the workers’ lawsuits over claims the farms hired white laborers from South Africa and paid them more than the local Black...
Judge Approves $11M Fund to Settle Suit Against Zywave
Jan 9 2023 // A federal judge last week approved an $11 million deal to end a proposed class action lawsuit against insurance technology provider Zywave. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in...
Maryland Newsroom Shooting Victims Settle Suit Against Publisher
Jan 9 2023 // ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The families of victims in the Capital Gazette shooting and some newspaper employees who survived the deadly 2018 attack dismissed civil charges against The Baltimore Sun and Tribune Publishing this...
Ohio Man Who Had Snow Stuffed in Mouth During Arrest Files Suit
Jan 6 2023 // AKRON, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio man who had snow stuffed into his mouth by a police officer during an arrest in Akron has filed an excessive force lawsuit against the city and several officers, claiming his civil rights were...
Family of Arizona Many who Dies in Jail Files Lawsuit
Jan 6 2023 // The family of Phoenix, Arizona, man who died in a Maricopa County jail two years ago has filed a lawsuit, alleging police officers used unreasonable force during his arrest. The suit filed last Friday in federal court...
JPMorgan Must Face Suit by Ray-Ban Maker Unit Over Cyber Theft
Jan 5 2023 // JPMorgan Chase Bank NA will have to face a lawsuit by a unit of the French maker of Ray-Ban glasses that claims the bank ignored suspicious transactions as cybercriminals drained $272 million from its New York bank...
Markets/Coverages: CNA Hardy Offers Enhanced Product Suite for UK Tech Businesses
Jan 5 2023 // CNA Hardy, a specialist commercial insurance provider for clients within the Lloyd’s and company markets, announced the latest addition to its specialist technology product suite. The product, called...
Trader Joe’s Sued Over Lead, Cadmium Levels in Dark Chocolate
Jan 5 2023 // Trader Joe’s was sued on Wednesday by a consumer who accused the grocery chain of misleading and endangering shoppers by selling dark chocolate that contains harmful levels of lead and cadmium. The proposed class...
Washington AG Sues Plastic Surgery Provider for Fake Reviews
Jan 4 2023 // Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against a plastic surgery provider in the Seattle area over claims it misled patients and the public “through a multitude of unlawful, unfair and...
Cameraman Hurt on New Mexico Film Set Gets $66M in Lawsuit
Jan 4 2023 // A Los Angeles cameraman who suffered a spinal cord injury while on a New Mexico movie set has been awarded more than $66 million in a lawsuit, among the largest settlements in the state’s history, a news outlet...
Google Paying Indiana $20M to Resolve Privacy Suit
Jan 3 2023 // Google will pay Indiana $20 million to resolve the state’s lawsuit against the technology giant over allegedly deceptive location tracking practices, state Attorney General Todd Rokita announced. Rokitas filed a...
Southwest Airlines Is Sued for Not Providing Refunds After Meltdown
Jan 3 2023 // Southwest Airlines has been sued by a passenger who said it failed to provide refunds to passengers left stranded when an operational meltdown led the carrier to cancel more than 15,000 flights late last month. In a...
Banks Seek to Quash Women’s Lawsuits in Jeffrey Epstein Case
Jan 3 2023 // Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase are asking a federal court to throw out lawsuits that claim the big banks should have seen evidence of sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein, the high-flying financier who killed himself in...
Another Woman Files Sex Abuse Suit Against Cosby, NBC Under New York Extension
Jan 3 2023 // A woman who alleges Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 sued the comedian-actor, NBCUniversal and other companies Friday in New York, where five other women filed a similar lawsuit earlier this...
U.S. Sues AmerisourceBergen, Says Distributor Helped Ignite Opioid Epidemic
Jan 3 2023 // The U.S. government filed a lawsuit accusing AmerisourceBergen Corp., one of the nation’s largest drug distributors, of helping ignite the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic by failing to report hundreds of...
Boy Scouts, Catholic Dioceses Find Haven From Sex Abuse Suits in Bankruptcy
Jan 3 2023 // Lawmakers around the United States have tried to grant justice to victims of decades-old incidents of child sexual abuse by giving them extra time to file lawsuits. Now some of the defendants in these cases, including...
Court Asked to Enforce $3 Million Settlement of Suit Over Virginia Police Shooting
Jan 3 2023 // VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Several parties to a wrongful death lawsuit over the fatal police shooting of a Black man on the Virginia Beach oceanfront last year have asked a judge to enforce the $3 million settlement...
Suit Alleges Agency Liable in Accidental Child Shooting Due to Home Office
Jan 3 2023 // The parents of a Maine three-year old boy who accidentally shot himself with a loaded pistol filed a negligence suit against the owner of a Vermont home where the boy found the gun while on a visit. The boy’s family...
