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Dakota Access Pipeline Company Files $1B Suit Against Greenpeace, Other Groups
Aug 24 2017 // The company building the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline filed a lawsuit against Greenpeace and other groups on Aug. 22, alleging that they disseminated false and misleading information about the project and interfered...
Family Settles Suit Against Perdue, Trucking Firm Over Virginia Crash
Aug 24 2017 // A family has settled a lawsuit against Perdue Farms and a trucking company over the death of an off-duty sheriff’s deputy whose tractor was struck by a semi-truck carrying chicken. The Virginian-Pilot reported...
West Virginia to Use $22M from Drug Distributor Suit for Addiction Treatment
Aug 24 2017 // West Virginia’s Department of Health and Human Resources says it will use $22 million in settlement money from drug distributors to help address the addiction epidemic in the state. Legislation passed this year...
Judge Dismisses Stockholders’ Suit Against Martha Stewart
Aug 24 2017 // A Delaware judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed by former stockholders of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia over the company’s 2015 acquisition by Sequential Brands. The lawsuit said that Stewart leveraged...
Appeals Court Rules L.A. Lakers Not Entitled to Coverage in TCPA Suit
Aug 23 2017 // The U.S. Ninth Circuit court of Appeals affirmed Wednesday that the Los Angeles Lakers are not entitled to insurance coverage for class action allegations that the team violated the Telephone Consumer Protection...
New Lawsuit Filed Over Alleged Baylor Rape Policy Failures
Aug 23 2017 // A woman who reported that she’d been sexually assaulted filed a lawsuit on Aug. 21 against Baylor University, alleging questions she faced from the university shifted blame away from her attacker toward her. The...
How Civil Immunity Lawsuit Led to Limits on Taser Use: Reuters Report
Aug 23 2017 // One of the biggest commercial threats to Taser International’s signature weapon could come from a lawsuit the company won. Across the United States, wrongful death lawsuits involving Tasers have created a body of...
Australia’s CBA Threatened with Large Class Action over Money Laundering Charges
Aug 23 2017 // A law firm threatened on Wednesday to file a class action suit against Commonwealth Bank of Australia for allegedly failing to disclose that it was facing money-laundering charges, in the latest headache for...
Louisville Sues Drug Distributors Over Kentucky Opioid Epidemic
Aug 23 2017 // Officials in Kentucky’s largest city have filed suit in federal court against opioid distributors, accusing them of contributing to the drug epidemic in the state. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced the lawsuit...
Los Angeles Jury Hands Down $417M Award Baby Powder Lawsuit
Aug 22 2017 // A Los Angeles jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $417 million to a hospitalized woman who claimed in a lawsuit that the talc in the company’s iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied...
Russian Female Flight Attendant Sues Aeroflot for Discrimination
Aug 22 2017 // “Old, fat and ugly” is what Yevgeniya Magurina jokingly calls a group of flight attendants for Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot who she claims have been sidelined in an apparent drive to make the cabin...
Taser Deaths Produce at Least 442 Lawsuits Against Police, Municipalities: Reuters
Aug 22 2017 // In a first-of-its-kind review of court documents, police reports, other public records and news accounts, Reuters compiled the most comprehensive public accounting to date of deaths and litigation that followed police use...
2 Nebraska Contractors Routinely Sue Insurers for Not Paying Storm Damage
Aug 21 2017 // Two Omaha contractors are expanding a legal strategy they say forces insurance companies to pay for storm damage, but industry officials say the practice leads to exaggerated claims and may drive away insurers. Home repair...
Woman Files Federal Lawsuit Over Delaware Pumpkin-Flinging Accident
Aug 21 2017 // A woman who was critically injured when an air cannon exploded during a Delaware pumpkin-launching competition has filed a federal lawsuit against event organizers and participants, state officials and Discovery...
South Dakota ‘Pink Slime’ Defamation Suit Cost ABC Network $177M
Aug 21 2017 // Walt Disney Co. paid $177 million, in addition to insurance recoveries, to settle the closely watched “pink slime” defamation case against its ABC network by South Dakota-based Beef Products Inc. (BPI), a...
Ex-Esurance Worker in South Dakota Sues Over Alleged Discrimination
Aug 18 2017 // A former Esurance call center worker in South Dakota is suing the insurance company alleging discrimination and harassment because he’s Jewish. The Argus Leader reports that Brandon Marshall filed the federal lawsuit...
Judge Sends Suit for California Man’s Helicopter Crash Death to Workers’ Comp
Aug 18 2017 // A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died in an ambulance helicopter crash has been thrown out by a judge who said the case must go through California’s workers’ compensation death benefits...
Lawsuit Claims Rodent Was Baked Into Sandwich at Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A
Aug 18 2017 // A lawsuit claims a suburban Philadelphia woman got an extra topping on her Chick-fil-A sandwich: a dead rodent. Ellen Manfalouti sued in Bucks County Court over the tiny rodent she claims was baked into the bottom bun of...
Lawsuit Claims U.S. Delinquent in Enforcing Rear Passenger Seat Belt Law
Aug 18 2017 // A new lawsuit accuses the U.S. government of being too slow to implement rules requiring that rear seat vehicle passengers be warned when they fail to buckle their seat belts. In a complaint filed on Wednesday, two...
Drug Company Deflects Blame in Lawsuit Over West Virginia Opioid Crisis
Aug 18 2017 // A West Virginia city’s lawsuit against a drug company has led to a dispute over which is at fault in the opioid epidemic. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reported last week that one of the nation’s largest drug...
