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Family of 14 Girl Shot By Los Angeles Police Files Lawsuit
Jul 28 2022 // The parents of a 14-year-old girl killed by Los Angeles police in a clothing store last year have filed a lawsuit against the department and the officer whose rifle round pierced a dressing room wall. Valentina Orellana...
Potential Class-Action Suit Says Washington Healthcare Provider Failed to Provide Interpreters
Jul 28 2022 // Providence St. Joseph Health, the largest healthcare system in Washington state, failed to provide in-person American Sign Language interpreters for deaf patients, leaving them at the mercy of virtual interpreters whose...
3M Unit Goes Bankrupt in Bid to Resolve Lawsuits Over Military Earplugs
Jul 27 2022 // 3M Co. put its Aearo Technologies unit into bankruptcy in a bid to resolve more than 230,000 lawsuits brought mainly by US military veterans over allegedly faulty combat earplugs. The conglomerate has already spent nearly...
Teva Reaches Proposed $4.35 Billion Settlement of Opioid Lawsuits
Jul 27 2022 // Teva Pharmaceutical Industries on Tuesday announced a $4.35 billion proposed nationwide settlement that could resolve thousands of lawsuits over the drugmaker’s alleged role in the U.S. opioid epidemic. The proposal...
U.S. Sues Chicken Producers, Alleging They Conspired to Keep Wages Down
Jul 26 2022 // US poultry producers Cargill Inc., Sanderson Farms Inc. and Wayne Farms LLC agreed to pay $84.8 million restitution for conspiring to lower wages for workers at chicken slaughterhouses as part of a settlement with the US...
Court Agrees With Insurer: Amazon Can Be Sued Under New Jersey Product Liability Law
Jul 26 2022 // Online marketplace Amazon can be sued under New Jersey product liability law for defective products sold by third-party sellers on its website. The federal district court in New Jersey sided with the New Jersey...
Lawsuit: Chicago Police Misused Gunshot Detection Technology in Murder Case
Jul 25 2022 // A federal lawsuit filed last Thursday alleges Chicago police misused “unreliable” gunshot detection technology and failed to pursue other leads in investigating a grandfather from the city’s South Side...
Former Students Sue Insurers over Alleged Abuse at Georgia Boarding School
Jul 25 2022 // Twenty men who said they were sexually abused at a prestigious boarding school in Georgia are now suing the school’s insurance companies for $345 million. The insurers argue that their policies did not cover the...
California Governor Signs Gun Law Enabling Citizens to Sue for Violations
Jul 22 2022 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a controversial gun control bill that was modeled after Texas’ vigilante abortion law, which enables private citizens to file lawsuits against anyone who imports,...
Environmental Group Plans Suit Over Coal Ash in Alabama River Delta
Jul 22 2022 // An environmental group took the first step Wednesday toward filing suit over plans by Alabama Power Co. to leave millions of pounds of coal ash near a riverside within the vast Mobile-Tensaw Delta, which activists say...
Settlement in Excessive Force Suit Brought by Reporters in Oregon
Jul 22 2022 // The city of Portland has paid $55,000 to two independent journalists who alleged excessive force by Portland police during a 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstration. An investigation after their lawsuit was filed determined...
Settlement in California Lawsuit by Man Strapped to Gurney During Arrest
Jul 22 2022 // The Los Angeles Police Department will pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit by a legally blind man who said he was beaten, strapped to a hospital gurney and nearly suffocated during an arrest three years ago, attorneys...
Indiana Abortion Doctor Signals She’ll Sue AG over Comments
Jul 21 2022 // An Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio took the first step Tuesday toward suing Indiana’s attorney general for defamation. Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis...
Wisconsin Attorney General Sues 18 Companies over PFAS Contamination
Jul 21 2022 // Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force nearly 20 companies that he alleges contaminated the environment with chemicals known as PFAS to reimburse the state for investigations and...
City in California Paying $360K to Settle Lawsuit by Council Member
Jul 21 2022 // The Oakland City Council agreed to approve a $360,000 settlement with a former council member who filed a lawsuit alleging the city and police violated his civil rights when officers threw him face-down inside City Hall in...
TikTok Algorithm Steers Violent Videos to More Minority Than White Users: Lawsuit
Jul 21 2022 // TikTok faces a claim that its algorithm steers more violent videos to minority subscribers than to White users in a lawsuit blaming the platform for the death of a 14-year-old African-American girl. The complaint, which...
Rhode Island Sues 5 Landlords Over Alleged Lead Hazards
Jul 21 2022 // Rhode Island has sued five more landlords who rent properties in which children with lead poisoning live, the state attorney general said Monday. The three properties in Providence, one in Central Falls, and one in Newport...
Virginia Ex-Gov. Wilder Sues University Leaders After Personnel Dispute
Jul 21 2022 // Former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder recently sued leaders of the Richmond university where he works following a public personnel dispute in which Wilder had pushed for the firing of an employee he accused of threatening...
Rat-Plagued Warehouse Winds Down as Family Dollar Faces Lawsuits
Jul 20 2022 // Six months after a Family Dollar distribution center in West Memphis, Arkansas, was fumigated and more than 1,000 rodent carcasses were removed, the rats are back. David Hernandez spotted three of the animals before 9 a.m....
California Social Media Addiction Bill Drops Parent Lawsuits
Jul 20 2022 // A first-of-its-kind proposal in the California Legislature aimed at holding social media companies responsible for harming children who have become addicted to their products would no longer let parents sue popular...
