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Cosby Still Faces Multiple Civil Suits
Jun 19 2017 // Although Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial ended in a mistrial on Saturday, his legal problems persist as he faces assault and defamation claims in civil lawsuits, where the bar for evidence is lower than in criminal...
Trump Reverses Obama Stand, Supports Employers Requiring Class Action Waivers
Jun 19 2017 // The Trump administration on Friday sided with employers in a Supreme Court case over the rights of workers to bring class action lawsuits against companies, court documents showed. Reversing a position staked out earlier...
Growing Number of Municipal Suits Over Opioids Face Uphill Battle
Jun 19 2017 // A growing number of U.S. states, counties and cities are filing lawsuits accusing drug companies of deceptively marketing opioid painkillers to downplay their addictiveness. But some lawyers say the industry’s highly...
Brown & Brown Insurance in Florida Settles Pregnancy Discrimination Suit for $100K
Jun 19 2017 // Daytona Beach, Fla.-based insurance brokerage firm Brown & Brown will pay $100,000 and furnish significant relief to resolve a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Cardinal Health Seeks Dismissal of Drug Suits in 6 West Virginia Counties
Jun 16 2017 // A pharmaceuticals distributor has asked a federal judge to dismiss lawsuits filed by six West Virginia counties over the opioid crisis, arguing that they were filed too late and the matter was already addressed in a state...
Texas-Based Atlas Resource Partners Faces Federal Age Bias Suit
Jun 16 2017 // A federal agency has charged a Fort Worth, Texas-based company with discrimination for firing an experienced production foreman fired because of his age. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said it has...
Uber Sued by Rape Victim Who Says It Violated Her Medical Privacy
Jun 16 2017 // A woman sued Uber Technologies Inc. on Thursday claiming top executives at the ride-hailing company improperly obtained her medical records after she was raped by a driver in India, according to court documents. The...
Nebraska Bank Sued for Paying Women Less Than Men
Jun 16 2017 // A Nebraska bank violated federal law by paying women and men unequally for jobs with the same required skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has...
In Arkansas Lawsuit, Farmers Blame Herbicide for Crop Damage
Jun 16 2017 // A group of Arkansas farmers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the makers of the herbicide dicamba that they blame for damaging their crops. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Jonesboro, Arkansas, against...
Arkansas’ G4S Youth Services Hit with Pay Discrimination Lawsuit
Jun 15 2017 // G4S Youth Services, a former manager of programs and services at a juvenile correction and detention facility in Alexander, Ark., violated federal law by paying a female facility investigator less than it paid the male...
Rolling Stone to Pay $1.65M to Settle Suit Over University of Virginia Rape Story
Jun 15 2017 // Rolling Stone magazine agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by a University of Virginia fraternity over a debunked story about a rape on campus, the fraternity said Tuesday. The settlement...
Families of 7 Children Killed in Oklahoma Tornado Settle with School System
Jun 14 2017 // A suburban Oklahoma City school system and its insurer have agreed to pay about $14,000 to each of the families of seven children who died four years ago when their school was destroyed by a tornado. The deal, announced by...
Hamptons Tainted Water Lawsuit Adds to Roster of 3M Complaints
Jun 14 2017 // A stone’s throw from the white sand beaches and posh mansions of one of America’s wealthiest ZIP codes sits a community that homeowners say has been poisoned by polluted drinking water. Fifteen people in a...
220,000 Dutch, English Consumers Sue VW Over Diesel Fraud
Jun 14 2017 // Around 220,000 car drivers in the Netherlands, England and Wales joined forces on Tuesday in what could become a pan-European lawsuit against German carmaker Volkswagen seeking compensation over its...
States Study Tobacco Lawsuit Tactics for Fight Over Opioid Costs
Jun 14 2017 // State and local leaders fighting a worsening opioid abuse epidemic are studying tactics used in the tobacco lawsuits of the 1990s, as they try to claw back billions from the companies who make and sell the powerful...
Companies Seek Dismissal of Oklahoma Tribe’s Prescription-Drug Suit
Jun 12 2017 // Walmart and other major corporations are asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed against them by the Cherokee Nation, which argues that the companies have not done enough to stop prescription opioid abuse. The...
Supreme Court Rejects Class Action Appeal by Xbox Users
Jun 12 2017 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of Microsoft Corp. in its bid to fend off class action claims by Xbox 360 owners who said the popular video game console gouges discs because of a design defect. The court,...
Court Rules Neighbors Can Sue Colorado Pot Grower over Stink
Jun 9 2017 // A Colorado pot farm’s neighbor can sue them for smells and other nuisances that could harm their property values, a federal appeals court ruled. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling revives a lawsuit between...
Arkansas City, County Included in Duggar Family Privacy Suits
Jun 9 2017 // Reality TV personality Josh Duggar faced “unwarranted public scrutiny” after a magazine disclosed that sisters told police they had been molested by him years earlier, lawyers for Duggar said in a complaint in...
Brown & Brown Insurance Settles Florida Pregnancy Discrimination Suit for $100K
Jun 9 2017 // Daytona Beach, Fla.-based insurance brokerage firm Brown & Brown will pay $100,000 and furnish significant relief to resolve a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
