Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Michigan Adult Care Company to Pay $170K in EEOC Lawsuit
Jan 21 2025 // PACE Southeast Michigan, a company providing all-inclusive care for the elderly, will pay $170,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission...
Cleveland City Files Lawsuit to Prevent Browns’ Move to Suburban Dome
Jan 17 2025 // Cleveland’s fight to keep the Browns from moving from downtown and into a proposed dome in the suburbs has taken yet another legal turn. The city has filed a lawsuit to stop the NFL team from leaving...
Deere & Co. Accused of Forcing Farmers to Use Authorized Dealers for Equipment Repair
Jan 17 2025 // Deere & Co. unfairly forces farmers to visit authorized dealers to repair their equipment, resulting in higher prices than if they could fix it themselves or get help from independent shops, the Federal Trade...
NC Court Says Mother Can Sue Trooper After Student Killed in Ride-Along
Jan 17 2025 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The mother of a North Carolina university student killed while on a ride-along in a Highway Patrol cruiser can continue suing for gross negligence the trooper who drove off the road during a...
DOJ Reports $2.9B Recovered in False Claims Act Litigation
Jan 16 2025 // Litigation under the False Claims Act generated more than $2.9 billion in settlement and judgments the last fiscal year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. According to data released Jan. 15, the Justice...
Bayer Faces Billions in Payouts for Decades-Old Toxic Mess
Jan 16 2025 // Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit stopped making toxic PCBs a half century ago, but the legal fallout lingers even as many of the building materials made with the chemicals are no longer used in US homes, schools and...
New York City Lawsuit Against Exxon, BP, Shell Over Climate Change Dismissed
Jan 16 2025 // A judge has dismissed New York City’s lawsuit seeking to hold Exxon Mobil, BP and Shell liable for misleading the public about their products, and their commitment to renewable energy and fighting climate change. In...
‘Epidemic’ of Hidden Cams? SC Workers’ Comp Lawyer Sued After Arrest for Videos
Jan 15 2025 // Two months after his law license was suspended and he was charged with illicitly filming renters at his beach property, a South Carolina workers’ compensation attorney now faces a civil lawsuit by one of the alleged...
SEC Sues Elon Musk Over Late Disclosure of Twitter Stake
Jan 15 2025 // Elon Musk was sued on Tuesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused the world’s richest person of waiting too long to disclose in 2022 he had amassed a large stake in Twitter, the social media...
FTC Prepares Lawsuit Over Deere Equipment Repair Practices
Jan 15 2025 // The US Federal Trade Commission has prepared a lawsuit against tractor giant Deere & Co. alleging the company’s agricultural equipment repair practices violate competition laws, according to people familiar with...
US Supreme Court Rebuffs Meta Bid to Avoid Advertisers’ Lawsuit
Jan 14 2025 // The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Meta Platforms to avoid a multi-billion dollar class action by advertisers that accused the Facebook and Instagram parent company of overcharging them by inflating...
Texas Lawsuit Alleges Allstate Illegally Collects Driver Data
Jan 13 2025 // The State of Texas on Monday filed a lawsuit against Allstate, alleging the insurance company illegally collects driver data through secretly embedded software in mobile apps and then uses the data to justify raising...
Edison Utility Sued Over Role of Equipment in Los Angeles Fire
Jan 13 2025 // Edison International Inc.’s southern California utility was hit with a lawsuit blaming the energy provider’s equipment for igniting one of the wildfires still raging in the second-largest US metropolis. The...
Lawsuit Seeks to Recover Damages for Dancers at Kansas Gentlemen’s Club
Jan 13 2025 // The U.S. Department of Labor filed a federal lawsuit on Jan. 6, 2025, as part of its ongoing effort to recover wages and damages for 80 female entertainers of a Wichita gentlemen’s club that allegedly failed to pay...
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...
