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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...
Exxon Sues California AG, Environmental Groups Over ‘Smear’
Jan 7 2025 // Exxon Mobil Corp. filed a lawsuit alleging that California Attorney General Rob Bonta and several environmental groups made defamatory comments about the oil company’s ability to recycle plastic. Exxon accused Bonta,...
After Nautilus Insurance Wins Civil Suit vs. Murdaugh, Trial Starts for His Conspirator
Jan 7 2025 // Just days after convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh was ordered to pay almost $15 million to Nautilus Insurance Co., his friend and co-conspirator is set to start trial in a civil suit brought by Nautilus for his role in the...
CFPB Sues Walmart, Scheduling Platform for Alleged Illegal Pay Practices for Gig Drivers
Jan 6 2025 // The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued Walmart and work scheduling platform Branch Messenger for allegedly forcing delivery drivers that are part of the discounter’s gig program to use costly deposit...
US Steel, Nippon Sue Biden Administration Over Decision to Block Merger
Jan 6 2025 // U.S. President Joe Biden violated the Constitution by blocking Nippon Steel’s $14.9 billion bid for U.S. Steel through a sham national security review, the companies alleged in a lawsuit they said was filed on...
US Chamber, Oil Firms Sue Vermont for Making Companies Pay for Climate Damage
Jan 6 2025 // The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a top oil and gas industry trade group are suing Vermont over its new law requiring that fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused over several decades by climate change. The...
Judge Allows Lawsuit Claiming Poland Spring Water Is Not From a Spring
Jan 2 2025 // A federal judge in Connecticut refused to dismiss a long-running lawsuit accusing the former Nestle Waters North America of defrauding consumers by labeling its Poland Spring bottled water as “spring...
