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Four Employees Sue Claiming Bristol Myers Refused Vaccine Religious Exemptions
Dec 2 2021 // Bristol Myers Squibb Co. was sued on Wednesday by four employees who said the drugmaker refused to grant them religious exemptions from its COVID-19 vaccination requirement, and threatened to fire them on Dec. 6 for...
Families of Two Illinois College Students Killed at Astroworld Concert File Lawsuits
Dec 1 2021 // The family of two close friends from suburban Chicago who were killed at the Astroworld concert in Houston this month have filed wrongful death lawsuits against rapper Travis Scott, the Live Nation entertainment company...
Judge Tosses $10B Advertising Bias Lawsuit Against McDonald’s for Insufficient Evidence
Dec 1 2021 // A U.S. judge has dismissed a $10 billion lawsuit against McDonald’s Corp. by the media entrepreneur Byron Allen, who accused the fast-food chain of racial discrimination for not advertising with Black-owned...
Virginia School District Suit Settled Over Treatment of Students with Disabilities
Dec 1 2021 // Virginia’s largest school district has reached a settlement with parents and advocacy groups over the treatment of students with disabilities. The Washington Post reported that the settlement effectively ends more...
Indianapolis School District Joins Vaping Lawsuit
Dec 1 2021 // Indianapolis Public Schools has become the latest Indiana school district to join a lawsuit that accuses e-cigarette giant Juul Labs of marketing its vaping products to young people. IPS is one of hundreds of U.S. school...
Lawsuit From Indiana Teacher Fired for Same-Sex Marriage Can Proceed
Nov 30 2021 // A lawsuit filed by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school in Indianapolis for being in a same-sex marriage can proceed, a state appeals court ruled. A panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled...
Lawsuit Alleges Discrimination at Wilmington Fire Department
Nov 30 2021 // A firefighter in Delaware is accusing the Wilmington Fire Department of years of racial and religious discrimination that he says created a hostile work environment. The News Journal reported that the lawsuit was filed in...
Marijuana Testing Lab Sues Michigan Over Major Product Recall
Nov 29 2021 // A marijuana testing lab filed a lawsuit against Michigan regulators after a major product recall and allegations of unreliable results. Viridis Laboratories, with operations in Lansing and Bay City, said the...
Oklahoma High Court Rules National American Off Hook in Earthquake Lawsuits
Nov 29 2021 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled last week that an earth-movement exclusion precludes insurance coverage for an oil and gas company facing several lawsuits accusing its operations of causing earthquakes. National American...
Illinois Hospital to Pay $150,000 Over Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Nov 29 2021 // The former owner of West Suburban Medical Center, an Oak Park, Illinois hospital will pay $150,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal...
Lawsuit Says Dairy Company is Misrepresenting Hawaii Links
Nov 29 2021 // A food distributor in Hawaii has filed a federal lawsuit against a dairy company because milk from the mainland is allegedly being sold under a name that advertises local ties. The lawsuit filed by Hawaii Foodservice...
Maryland Attorney General Sues Monsanto, Alleges Harm to Natural Resources
Nov 29 2021 // Maryland’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday against chemical company Monsanto and two spinoffs, alleging that chemicals Monsanto manufactured harmed the state’s waters, fish and wildlife and seeking to...
Activist Group Calls on Insurers to Sue Oil Companies for Climate Damages
Nov 29 2021 // FRANKFURT – A prominent activist is calling on insurers like Swiss Re to explore suing major oil companies for climate-related damages, the latest volley in a years-long campaign that pits environmentalists against the...
Minnesota Man Awarded $25 Million in Amputation Lawsuit
Nov 24 2021 // Federal jurors say a Twin Cities plastic surgeon is entitled to nearly $25 million because an emergency medical provider declined to fly him back to the United States after a ziplining injury in Mexico led to a leg...
U.S. Gunmakers Claim Mexico’s $10B Lawsuit Shows ‘Clash of National Values’
Nov 24 2021 // Gun makers including Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co. on Monday asked a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit by the Mexican government accusing them of facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels,...
Colorado Suburb Paying $15M to Settle Elijah Mcclain Suit
Nov 22 2021 // The Denver, Colorado suburb of Aurora has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the parents of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after suburban Denver police stopped him on the street and put him in a...
$5M Settlement in Arizona Suit over Man’s Death During Arrest
Nov 19 2021 // Phoenix, Arizona officials agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit over the January 2017 death of a Black man during an arrest attempt in which he cried out that he couldn’t breathe as officers held him...
Son of Black Man Killed by California Police Settles Lawsuit for $1.3M
Nov 19 2021 // The child of a Black man who was fatally shot by Southern California police in 2018 – and whose death spurred lawmakers to enact a state law that decertifies officers who act criminally or with bias – has settled a...
Lawsuit Says Baldwin Had No Reason to Fire in New Mexico Movie Set Shooting
Nov 19 2021 // A lawsuit alleges that Alec Baldwin recklessly fired a gun when it wasn’t called for in the script when he shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza on the New Mexico set of the...
Live Nation, Apple, Travis Scott Face $2 Billion Suit Over Astroworld Crush
Nov 19 2021 // A Texas trial attorney has filed a $2 billion lawsuit following the Astroworld music festival crush that killed 10 people and left hundreds more injured. The lawsuit filed by Houston attorney Thomas J. Henry is on behalf...
