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Plains All American Agrees to Pay $73M to Settle California Oil Spill Lawsuit
Nov 13 2024 // Plains All American Pipeline has agreed to pay $72.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the 2015 Refugio Beach oil spill in Santa Barbara, a filing showed on Tuesday. The spill occurred after a pipeline, which ran across...
Obama Relatives Settle Racial Bias Suit With Private School in Milwaukee
Nov 12 2024 // Former first lady Michelle Obama’s brother and his wife have settled a lawsuit they filed in 2022 alleging a private school in Milwaukee refused to reenroll their children after the couple raised concerns about...
Chipotle Shareholders Sue Over Fallout From Skimping on Portion Sizes
Nov 12 2024 // Chipotle Mexican Grill was sued on Monday by shareholders for concealing how many of its restaurants were skimping on portions, forcing the chain to spend more on ingredients and hurting its stock price. In a proposed...
Meta’s Zuckerberg Not Liable in Lawsuits Over Social Media Harm to Children
Nov 12 2024 // A federal judge said Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not personally liable in 25 lawsuits accusing his company of addicting children to social media. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California...
FTX Sues Binance and Its Former CEO for $1.8B
Nov 12 2024 // Collapsed cryptocurrency company FTX is suing Binance and its former CEO Changpeng Zhao, alleging that $1.8 billion was “fraudulently transferred” by FTX management to Binance and its executives. The lawsuit...
US Supreme Court to Hear Facebook Bid to Escape Securities Fraud Suit
Nov 8 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to consider a bid by Meta’s Facebook to scuttle a federal securities fraud lawsuit brought by shareholders who accused the social media platform of misleading them about the...
CNN Must Face Project Veritas’ Defamation Lawsuit, Appeals Court Rules
Nov 8 2024 // A U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday revived a defamation lawsuit accusing CNN of defaming Project Veritas in its explanation of why the conservative group, which is often accused of using deceptive tactics, was...
Danone Wins Dismissal of Evian Microplastics Lawsuit
Nov 7 2024 // The maker of Evian spring water, Danone, won the dismissal of a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing it of defrauding consumers with labels that claim the water is “natural” even though it contains microplastics that...
Company Vows to Sue Over Damages After New Mexico Police Destroy Cannabis Crops
Nov 7 2024 // State police have destroyed tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana plants at greenhouses in northwestern New Mexico, marking what regulators say is the largest seizure and destruction of cannabis in New Mexico since new...
Fairgoers Join Lawsuit Against State Fair of Texas and Dallas Over Firearms Ban
Nov 6 2024 // Three fairgoers have joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in suing the State Fair of Texas and the city of Dallas over the fair’s policy banning all firearms from its properties. Monday’s filing is the...
Judge Delays Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Karen Read Until After Criminal Trial
Nov 5 2024 // A judge ruled Thursday that Karen Read won’t have to give a deposition in her wrongful death lawsuit until after her criminal trial in January. The brief from Judge William M. White Jr. on Thursday effectively delays...
Facebook, Nvidia Ask Supreme Court to Spare Them From Securities Fraud Suits
Nov 4 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider bids by two tech giants – Meta’s Facebook and Nvidia – to fend off federal securities fraud lawsuits in separate cases that could make it harder for private litigants to...
Meta Loses Bid to Appeal UK Class Action Over User Data
Nov 4 2024 // Meta Platforms Inc. failed in a bid to challenge a class action suit in the UK that alleged Facebook abused its dominant position and exploited its users personal data. The UK’s Court of Appeal refused to permit Meta...
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...
