Latest Lawsuits Headlines
All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Gunmaker Sig Sauer Sued by Veteran Claiming Pistol Goes Off by Itself
Jun 16 2022 // A pistol made by Sig Sauer and sold to law enforcement and civilians alike is prone to going off without the trigger being pulled, a defect that has led to dozens of injuries over the past several years, a U.S. Army...
New York’s High Court Rejects Trump Bid to Skip Testifying in AG’s Civil Suit
Jun 16 2022 // New York’s highest court on Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to avoid testifying in the state attorney genera l’s civil investigation into his business practices,...
Arizona Jail Attack Lawsuit Settles for Nearly $12M
Jun 16 2022 // The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona reached an $11.75 million settlement in a lawsuit involving a jail attack that seriously injured an inmate more than two years ago. The county’s Board of...
Lawsuit: Death of Kansas Black Teen at Juvenile Center Foreshadowed
Jun 15 2022 // The death of a Black teenager at a Kansas juvenile detention center was foreshadowed five years earlier by a state inspection of the facility that noted systemic deficiencies in its handling of children with mental health...
Rudolph Giuliani Sues Smartmatic to Recoup Legal Fees in Fox News Lawsuit
Jun 15 2022 // Rudolph Giuliani has sued Smartmatic to recoup legal fees as he defends against its $2.7 billion lawsuit accusing him, Fox News Network and others of falsely claiming that the company helped rig the 2020 U.S. presidential...
Wrongful Conviction Lawsuit in Idaho Settled for $11.7M
Jun 15 2022 // Officials in the eastern Idaho city of Idaho Falls have agreed to pay $11.7 million to a man who spent about two decades in prison after being wrongfully convicted. The Idaho Falls City Council voted to accept the...
New Jersey Woman Injured Rescuing Neighbor’s Dog Loses Damages Suit
Jun 15 2022 // A woman who says she suffered serious injuries while trying to save her neighbors’ dog from a canal can’t sue the pooch’s owners, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The court unanimously...
South Dakota Hotel Owners Sued by Relative Over Social Media Post
Jun 14 2022 // The owners of Rapid City, South Dakota hotel are facing a lawsuit over a social media post by one of them that promised to ban Native Americans from the property. The lawsuit comes from a shareholder who happens to be a...
Deutsche Bank Investors Can Sue in U.S. Over Epstein, Russian Oligarch Ties
Jun 14 2022 // A U.S. judge on Monday said shareholders can sue Deutsche Bank for allegedly hiding shortfalls in its internal controls while doing business with risky, ultra-rich clients like the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Russian...
Oracle Corp. Women Stumble in Pay Bias Suit While Google Cuts a Deal
Jun 14 2022 // Women at Oracle Corp. suing over alleged pay disparities took a big step backward, while more than 15,000 female workers at Google crossed the finish line. Under a judge’s tentative ruling Friday, the Oracle women...
Binance U.S. Exchange Sued by Crypto Investor Over Stablecoin Collapse
Jun 14 2022 // Binance U.S. and its CEO were sued on Monday by a U.S. investor who alleges the cryptocurrency exchange falsely marketed Terra USD as a safe asset ahead of the so-called stablecoin’s collapse in value last...
Florida Plaintiffs Claim Victory After Dropping Suit to Block SB 76’s Solicitation Ban
Jun 14 2022 // When the Florida Legislature approved Senate Bill 76 last year, with its restrictions on homeowner solicitation by roofing contractors, insurers saw it as a major blow against runaway fraudulent and exaggerated roof...
Seattle Space Needle Sues Coffee Chain Over Use of Logo
Jun 13 2022 // The Seattle Space Needle has sued a local coffee chain for using its trademarked logo in coffee shop branding and merchandise. The logo for Local Coffee Spot, which has four locations in the Seattle area, features a mug of...
New Mexico Residents Suing for Information on Massive Wildfire
Jun 13 2022 // Dozens of residents in a small New Mexico community impacted by massive wildfires that merged in April are suing the U.S. Forest Service over what they called a failure to provide information about the government’s...
UK Pubs Group Sues Zurich, Liberty Mutual, MS Amlin for $1.2B Over COVID BI Losses
Jun 13 2022 // Britain’s biggest pubs group Stonegate, which is suing Zurich Insurance and two peers for 1 billion pounds ($1.2 billion) over lockdown losses, battled the COVID-19 pandemic “day by day, venue by venue,”...
Supreme Court Takes No Action on Bayer Bid to Nix Weedkiller Suits
Jun 13 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday took no action on Bayer AG’s bid to dismiss legal claims by customers who contend its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer as the German company seeks to avoid potentially billions of...
Judge Allows New York’s Lawsuit Against NRA to Move Forward
Jun 13 2022 // The New York attorney general’s lawsuit against the National Rifle Association is no mere “witch hunt,” a New York judge ruled Friday in dismissing the gun rights advocacy group’s claims that the...
Google Agrees to Pay $118 Million to Settle Pay Equity Suit
Jun 13 2022 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google agreed to pay $118 million to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit with about 15,500 female employees, lawfirms representing the women said in a statement. In addition, an independent expert...
North Carolina Asbestos Suit vs. Ford, Other Parts Makers Moves Ahead
Jun 10 2022 // A federal lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. and other manufacturers of auto parts that contained asbestos is proceeding, after a judge in North Carolina rejected arguments that a mechanic should have known of the dangers of...
Wisconsin Ag Company to Settle $180,000 EEOC Sexual Harassment Suit
Jun 10 2022 // Baumann Farms LLP, a major agricultural company in central Wisconsin, will pay $180,812.50 and provide other significant relief to settle a sexual harassment, retaliation, and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed...
