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Kansas Town Wins First Round in Lawsuit Over Natural Gas Prices
Feb 14 2022 // Residents of a small city in southeast Kansas may continue a lawsuit that claims energy utility BP gouged them with hefty price increases for natural gas during freezing weather last year, a judge has ruled. A Crawford...
Arkansas Judge Dismisses Duggar Sister’s Suit Over Records’ Release
Feb 14 2022 // A federal judge on Feb. 9 dismissed a lawsuit four sisters of Josh Duggar filed over the release of records from a police investigation that concluded the former reality television star fondled them. U.S. District Judge...
Kansas University Settles Free-Speech Lawsuit
Feb 14 2022 // Haskell Indian Nations University has settled a lawsuit filed after a former university president sought to dictate what student journalists could report and write. Free-speech advocates said the settlement agreement with...
3 Million Plaintiffs Seeking $1.2B from California Health Firm
Feb 11 2022 // A lawsuit over high health care bills filed on behalf of more than 3 million employers and people seeks as much as $1.2 billion from a large Northern California health systems in an antitrust class-action trial that got...
Purdue’s Sacklers Consider Adding $1 Billion More to Opioid Settlement
Feb 11 2022 // Members of the billionaire Sackler family that own Purdue Pharma LP are weighing whether to add $1 billion to the OxyContin-maker’s faltering opioid settlement bid in an effort to win over holdouts, according to...
Suit by 3 Students Alleges Harvard University Ignored Sexual Harassment
Feb 11 2022 // Three Harvard University graduate students said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that the Ivy League school for years ignored complaints about sexual harassment by a renowned professor and allowed him to intimidate...
Suit Alleges Racial Discrimination, Harassment at One of Tesla’s California Factories
Feb 10 2022 // The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing has filed a lawsuit against Tesla Inc. alleging systematic racial discrimination and harassment. Tesla said on Wednesday the DFEH intended to file a lawsuit. The...
Journalists Settle Suit Over Mistreatment Covering Minnesota Protests
Feb 10 2022 // The state of Minnesota has agreed to pay $825,000 and change several policies to settle a lawsuit brought by journalists who said they were hurt or harassed while covering protests over the police killings of George Floyd...
FTC Files Suit Against Auto Warranty Firm, Charging Deceptive Practices
Feb 10 2022 // The Federal Trade Commission has filed a federal lawsuit against a Florida-based vehicle warranty firm and related companies, charging that the firms’ telemarketers illegally said they represented car manufacturers...
Appeals Court Allows Dallas Police Excessive Force Lawsuit to Proceed
Feb 10 2022 // The family of a Dallas man who died in police custody five years ago can proceed with their lawsuit against four officers, a federal appeals court ruled in an opinion filed last week that overturned a lower court’s...
Families Allege Safety Violations in Suing Building Owners Over Bronx Fire That Killed 17
Feb 10 2022 // Several families whose loved ones died or were critically injured while trying to escape a smoked-filled Bronx apartment building sued the owners Tuesday, alleging safety violations that led to the wrongful deaths of 17...
UCLA Settling Gynecologist Sex Abuse Lawsuit for $246M
Feb 9 2022 // The University of California has agreed to pay $246.3 million to settle allegations that hundreds of women were sexually abused by a former UCLA gynecologist, lawyers and the university announced Tuesday. The settlement...
Lawsuit Alleges Negligence in Ohio Jail Inmate’s Diabetes Death
Feb 9 2022 // Corrections and medical officials at an Ohio jail mishandled an inmate with diabetes and their indifference led to his death last year, according to a federal lawsuit. At issue is care received by Chavis Martinez at...
Tesla Expects California Lawsuit Alleging Racial Discrimination, Harassment at Factory
Feb 9 2022 // Tesla Inc. said on Wednesday the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) intends to file a lawsuit against the company alleging systematic racial discrimination and harassment. The lawsuit appears to be...
Judge Dismisses Fired Amazon Worker’s Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination
Feb 9 2022 // A federal judge on Monday sided with Amazon.com Inc. in dismissing a discrimination lawsuit that workplace organizer Christian Smalls had filed against his former employer. U.S. District Judge Rachel Kovner rejected...
Lawsuits by Comedians Say Pandora’s Streaming of Their Material Isn’t Funny
Feb 9 2022 // The estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin sued Sirius XM’s Pandora Media Inc. on Monday, claiming the online music service owes royalties for streaming their material millions of times. Williams and...
3 Firms to Pay $65M to Settle Upstate New York Water Pollution Class Action
Feb 8 2022 // HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $65 million settlement in a class action lawsuit with three companies over chemical contamination of the water supply in an upstate New York village. The Times...
Group of Ohio State Sex Abuse Survivors Appeal Lawsuit Dismissal
Feb 7 2022 // The inappropriate behavior of a long-dead Ohio State team doctor went unrecognized as sexual abuse until only recently and hence a deadline for suing the university over the abuse has not passed, a group of survivors argue...
Jury Awards $50 million to South Carolina Mayor in Defamation Lawsuit
Feb 7 2022 // A jury in South Carolina awarded $50 million in damages to a mayor in a defamation case against a longtime critic. Mayor Sulka The Beaufort County jury decided Thursday that Skip Hoagland has to pay Bluffton Mayor Lisa...
NFL Vows to Improve Minority Hiring Policies, Investigate Tanking Allegations
Feb 7 2022 // National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell told teams Saturday that the league will look to bolster policies meant to encourage hiring of minorities, particularly as head coaches, and he pledged an investigation...
