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Defendants in Separate COVID-19 Business Interruption Suits Score Wins in Texas Courts
Sep 7 2020 // Rulings in two lawsuits originating in Texas over business income losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic were handed down in August in favor of insurance firms. In one, an insurance agency was added to a restaurant...
2 Washington State Agribusinesses Settle Federal Discrimination Suit for $325K
Sep 7 2020 // Two agribusinesses in Washington state will distribute $325,000 among 105 Thai farm workers to settle a federal national origin and race discrimination lawsuit. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said the...
Former Washington State Student Sues School District Over Mass Shooting
Sep 7 2020 // A former student at a high school in Washington state who survived a school shooting is suing the district for what she claims was a preventable attack. The mass shooting killed four students and the gunman in 2014. Carmen...
UCLA Suing Under Armour, Seeking Damages in Excess of $200 Million
Sep 7 2020 // UCLA filed a lawsuit against Under Armour in late August in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for breach of contract, seeking damages in excess of $200 million. Under Armour announced in late June that it was ending its...
Mother of Unarmed Man Shot in Wyoming Files Lawsuit
Sep 4 2020 // The mother of an unarmed Wyoming man killed by a sheriff’s deputy after a traffic stop has filed a lawsuit alleging excessive use of force and failures in hiring and training the deputy. Debra Hinkel filed suit...
Former Australia Bank Unit Sued Over Insurance Commissions
Sep 3 2020 // Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) said on Thursday a class action lawsuit had been filed over commissions paid to its former subsidiary and advice given by it on financial products including insurance. The lawsuit was...
Missouri’s COVID-19 Lawsuit Against China Stalled in Federal Court
Sep 2 2020 // More than four months after Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sought to hold China and the Chinese Communist Party accountable for the COVID-19 pandemic, the lawsuit remains stalled in federal court. Neither the...
West Texas Mass Shooting Victims’ Families Sue Gun Supplier, Manufacturer
Sep 2 2020 // Family members of two of the deceased Odessa, Texas, mass shooting victims are suing the person who supplied the AR-style firearm to the mass shooter and the gun parts manufacturer for over $1 million in damages. The...
Seattle Scoffs at $650M PCB Class-Action Settlement for Bayer
Sep 2 2020 // Seattle scoffed at the $650 million Bayer AG agreed to pay to settle class-action claims by about 2,500 cities, counties and ports over pollution from polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB, saying it plans to opt out of the...
Swiss Cryptocurrency Fundraiser to Pay Tezos Investors $25M to Settle Class Action
Sep 2 2020 // A three-year-long U.S. court battle over a cryptocurrency fundraiser, one of the largest initial coin offerings ever, has ended with a Swiss foundation paying $25 million to participants who lost money and their...
Lawsuit: Oregon School District Failed to Investigate Teacher
Sep 2 2020 // A former student from Aloha High School is suing the Beaverton School District after a teacher was convicted of sending her sexually explicit photos and videos of himself. The suit, which asks for more than $2 million in...
Massachusetts Alleges in Lawsuit That Auto Lender Broke Law
Sep 2 2020 // A national subprime auto lender made unfair and deceptive loans to thousands of Massachusetts residents, provided investors with false or misleading information regarding auto securities, and engaged in unfair debt...
Insurance Plays Key Role in Civil Rights Settlements Against Law Enforcement
Sep 2 2020 // Municipalities, their insurers and risk pools should be heeding the current public re-examination of police and prosecutorial actions taking place across the country, according to an insurance policyholder attorney who...
Lawsuit by Former Black Franchisees Accuses McDonald’s of Racial Discrimination
Sep 2 2020 // McDonald’s Corp. is the subject of a lawsuit by more than 50 Black former franchisees in the U.S. who say they were driven out of business after being pushed by the company to set up shop in crime-ridden areas and...
Distributor of Recalled Hand Sanitizer Sued by Indiana Woman
Sep 1 2020 // A northern Indiana woman has filed a lawsuit against the distributor of a recalled hand sanitizer over the presence of toxic methanol, alleging her children had severe side effects. The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in...
$1.6M Out-of-Court Settlement Reached in Minnesota Excessive Force Suit
Aug 31 2020 // An out-of-court settlement has been reached in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a man who said he suffered a serious brain injury during an arrest by an Otter Tail County, Minnesota, sheriff’s deputy. The...
Family of Man Who Died in Custody in Washington Announces $30M Suit
Aug 31 2020 // The family of a Black man who died in Tacoma, Wash. police custody announced they plan to sue the police department for $30 million for his death. Seattle lawyer James Bible, who represents Manuel Ellis’ family in...
Judge Allows Palin Defamation Suit Against New York Times
Aug 31 2020 // A federal judge on Friday rejected the New York Times’ bid to dismiss Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit over a 2017 editorial she said falsely linked her to a mass shooting. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in...
UCLA Suing Under Armour, Seeking Damages in Excess Of $200 Million
Aug 28 2020 // UCLA filed a lawsuit against Under Armour this week in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for breach of contract, seeking damages in excess of $200 million.. Under Armour announced in late June that it was ending its deal...
Black Farmers Sue to Force Roundup Weedkiller Ban or Product Warnings
Aug 28 2020 // A group of Black U.S. farmers filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday, seeking to force Bayer AG to either stop selling its widely used weedkiller Roundup or roll out new product warnings. The National Black Farmers...
