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SEC Sues Elon Musk Over Late Disclosure of Twitter Stake
Jan 15 2025 // Elon Musk was sued on Tuesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused the world’s richest person of waiting too long to disclose in 2022 he had amassed a large stake in Twitter, the social media...
FTC Prepares Lawsuit Over Deere Equipment Repair Practices
Jan 15 2025 // The US Federal Trade Commission has prepared a lawsuit against tractor giant Deere & Co. alleging the company’s agricultural equipment repair practices violate competition laws, according to people familiar with...
US Supreme Court Rebuffs Meta Bid to Avoid Advertisers’ Lawsuit
Jan 14 2025 // The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Meta Platforms to avoid a multi-billion dollar class action by advertisers that accused the Facebook and Instagram parent company of overcharging them by inflating...
Texas Lawsuit Alleges Allstate Illegally Collects Driver Data
Jan 13 2025 // The State of Texas on Monday filed a lawsuit against Allstate, alleging the insurance company illegally collects driver data through secretly embedded software in mobile apps and then uses the data to justify raising...
Edison Utility Sued Over Role of Equipment in Los Angeles Fire
Jan 13 2025 // Edison International Inc.’s southern California utility was hit with a lawsuit blaming the energy provider’s equipment for igniting one of the wildfires still raging in the second-largest US metropolis. The...
Lawsuit Seeks to Recover Damages for Dancers at Kansas Gentlemen’s Club
Jan 13 2025 // The U.S. Department of Labor filed a federal lawsuit on Jan. 6, 2025, as part of its ongoing effort to recover wages and damages for 80 female entertainers of a Wichita gentlemen’s club that allegedly failed to pay...
Lawsuit Filed Against City of New Orleans Over Fatal New Year’s Truck Attack
Jan 13 2025 // Six people who were injured and the father of a man who was killed in the New Year’s truck attack filed a lawsuit Thursday against the City of New Orleans and two contractors, claiming they failed to protect revelers...
Kentucky AG Settles Opioid Suit vs. The Kroger Co. for $110 Million
Jan 13 2025 // Kentucky will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation’s largest grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic, the state’s attorney general said Thursday. The state will use...
Judge Triples Jury Award in Nautilus Insurance Suit Against Murdaugh Accomplice
Jan 13 2025 // A federal judge last week tripled the damages that Alex Murdaugh’s co-conspirator must pay to Nautilus Insurance Co., bringing the total to $3.75 million – plus significant attorney fees incurred by the insurer. A...
Pfizer Must Face Lawsuit Over Diversity Fellowship Program, Appeals Court Rules
Jan 13 2025 // A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit by a conservative group opposed to diversity initiatives in medicine that challenged a Pfizer fellowship program designed to boost the pipeline of Black, Latino and Native...
Yodel Lawsuit Exposes Strains in UK’s Troubled Parcel Industry
Jan 13 2025 // A van delivery entrepreneur whose startup was dubbed the Uber of the moving business was accused of asset-stripping and misappropriating funds after his takeover of a major UK parcel shipment firm fell apart. Shift, which...
US Sues Airbnb After Host Rejected Rental to Mother With Children
Jan 13 2025 // The U.S. government sued Airbnb on Friday, alleging housing discrimination after a host refused to rent an apartment to a mother with three school-age children. In a complaint filed in San Francisco federal court, the...
Texas AG Files Second Lawsuit Against TikTok Over Explicit Content
Jan 10 2025 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday sued TikTok for the second time in recent months, accusing the social media company of violating deceptive trade law by downplaying its addictiveness and exposing children to...
Insurer Upheld in Declining to Defend Employer Against Injured Worker’s Lawsuit
Jan 10 2025 // The New Jersey Supreme Court recently ruled that an insurer had no duty to defend an insured employer against an injured employee’s personal injury lawsuit alleging negligence and intentional harm. The high court...
Apple Clarifies Siri Privacy Stance After $95M Class Action Settlement
Jan 9 2025 // Apple clarified on Wednesday that it has never sold the data collected by its Siri voice assistant or used it to create marketing profiles, just days after settling a case in which it faced such accusations. The iPhone...
Businesses Sue State Over New California Workplace Law
Jan 9 2025 // California businesses are suing to halt a new state law that bars them from requiring employees to attend anti-union meetings at work. The state’s Chamber of Commerce and California Restaurant Association filed the...
Marine Acquitted in Subway Chokehold Case Seeks Dismissal of Suit by Victim’s Father
Jan 9 2025 // The former U.S. Marine acquitted last month of criminal charges in the death of a man on a New York City subway train is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the victim’s father. Daniel Penny’ s lawyer, in a...
Low-Income Tenants Sue Omaha Housing Authority Over Bed Bug Infestations
Jan 8 2025 // A class-action lawsuit filed Monday alleges the Omaha Housing Authority ignored and failed to eliminate bed bug infestations at high-rise apartments for low-income residents. The new lawsuit, brought by a pioneering firm...
Lawsuit Alleges Fox Sports Ex-Host Harassed Hairstylist, Offered $1.5M for Sex
Jan 8 2025 // A woman who worked as a hairstylist for Fox Sports alleges in a lawsuit that former host Skip Bayless made repeated, unwanted advances toward her — including an offer of $1.5 million to have sex with him. Attorneys for...
MLB Players Affiliate Withdraws Image Lawsuit Against Pirates’ Parent Company
Jan 8 2025 // An affiliate of the Major League Baseball Players Association withdrew its lawsuit against the parent company of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the convenience store chain Sheetz Inc. that alleged unlicensed use of...
