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Update: TikTok Sued by Families in France After Children’s Suicides
Nov 4 2024 // TikTok was sued by a group of seven French families who blame the social network app for harming the mental health of their children, driving two of them to suicide. The families, grouped in the association Algos Victima,...
PepsiCo Beats New York State’s ‘Predatory’ Lawsuit Over Plastics Pollution
Nov 4 2024 // PepsiCo won the dismissal of New York’s lawsuit accusing the beverage and snack-food company of polluting the environment with single-use plastic packaging, as the judge criticized the state’s attorney general,...
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Minnesota Trooper in Fatal Shooting of Black Man
Nov 1 2024 // A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit against a white Minnesota state trooper who shot and killed a Black man during a traffic stop last year, ruling that the trooper’s actions did not violate the...
Retrial Begins in Civil Suit Against Contractor Accused in Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal
Nov 1 2024 // A military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago is again on trial in a federal courtroom after a long-awaited civil case earlier this year ended...
Los Angeles County Sues PepsiCo and Coca-Cola Over Plastic Pollution
Nov 1 2024 // Los Angeles County has sued beverage makers PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, accusing them of polluting the most populous U.S. county with plastic bottles and misleading the public about the environmental impact and recyclability of...
Trick or Treat? Lawsuit Alleges Some Hershey Candy Wrappers Contain PFAS
Oct 31 2024 // Just two days before Halloween, The Hershey Co. was hit with a class action lawsuit alleging that the packaging of some of its candies contains unsafe levels of chemicals known as fluorine and/or per- and polyfluoroalkyl...
TPG’s Exactech Goes Bankrupt After Lawsuits Over Recalled Implant Devices
Oct 31 2024 // Exactech Inc., a maker of joint-replacement implants owned by TPG Capital, has filed bankruptcy after being accused in more than a thousand lawsuits of making defective hip and knee implants that hurt patients. The...
JPMorgan Sues Customers Over Check Fraud Linked to Glitch That Went Viral
Oct 30 2024 // JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank, has begun suing customers for check fraud, saying they improperly withdrew funds by taking illegal advantage of a temporary technical glitch that went viral on TikTok. The glitch in...
McDonald’s Sued by Consumers in Proposed Class Action Over E.Coli Outbreak
Oct 30 2024 // McDonald’s was sued on Tuesday by consumers in a proposed class action stemming from the E.coli outbreak linked to onions in the fast-food chain’s Quarter Pounders. Amanda McCray of Chicago and William Michael...
Michigan Culver’s Restaurants Sued for Discriminating Against Transgender Employee
Oct 29 2024 // Five related entities operating Culver’s restaurants in Michigan violated federal law when they fired a transgender employee and three of his colleagues after they complained about harassment, the U.S. Equal...
AI Chatbot Pushed Florida Teen to Suicide, Lawsuit Against Its Creator Alleges
Oct 29 2024 // In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest friend. For months, Sewell had become increasingly isolated from his...
Where’s the Meat? Lawsuit Claims Subway Sandwich Skimps on Filling
Oct 29 2024 // A new lawsuit accuses Subway of “grossly misleading” customers by advertising sandwiches that contain at least three times more meat than it delivers. According to a proposed class action filed on Monday in...
Delta Sues CrowdStrike Over ‘Catastrophic’ Software Glitch
Oct 29 2024 // Delta Air Lines Inc. sued cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. over the chaos caused this summer by a “catastrophic” software update that disabled millions of computers worldwide and grounded much of...
Lawsuit Alleges Child Sexual Abuse of WWE ‘Ring Boys’ in Maryland
Oct 29 2024 // A new lawsuit accuses the WWE and its founders of fostering a culture of sexual abuse within the organization and looking the other way while a longtime ringside announcer preyed on young men he hired as “ring...
Lyft to Pay $2 Million to Resolve FTC Suit Over Driver Pay
Oct 28 2024 // Lyft Inc. agreed to pay $2.1 million to resolve a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission accusing the ride-hailing company of deceiving drivers about how much they would earn when consumer demand picked up after the...
Lawsuits Claim Children Were Sexually Abused in Pennsylvania Juvenile Facilities
Oct 28 2024 // A set of lawsuits was filed last Wednesday by people who claim they were sexually abused inside Pennsylvania juvenile detention and treatment facilities, making more than 200 people to have launched such cases since...
Jury Hands $5.2B Verdict Against Vegas Company in Bottled Water Liver Damage Suit
Oct 28 2024 // A jury in Nevada has delivered a $5.2 billion award in the latest large-sum lawsuit against a former Las Vegas-based bottled water company that was found responsible for causing liver damage in customers before it was...
Georgia County to Sue BioLab Over Chemical Fire and Toxic Fumes
Oct 25 2024 // CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia county is preparing a federal lawsuit that aims to shut down the BioLab chemical factory where a fire sent a toxic chemical cloud over Atlanta’s suburbs last month, the latest in a...
Parents of Student Disciplined for Using AI Sue School
Oct 25 2024 // The parents of a high school senior in Massachusetts argued in federal court in Boston on Tuesday that their son was unfairly punished for using artificial intelligence while researching a history project, harming his...
McDonald’s Sued by Colorado Man Sickened in E. Coli Outbreak
Oct 24 2024 // A Colorado man has filed what appears to be the first lawsuit against McDonald’s over an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers that has killed one person and sickened nearly 50 others. The lawsuit, filed...
