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Supreme Court Rules Monetary Offer Doesn’t End Class Action
Jan 20 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against advertising firm Campbell-Ewald in a class action case, saying the lawsuit can proceed over claims the company violated a federal consumer law by sending unsolicited text...
Insurance to Offset Merck’s $830M Settlement with Investors Over Vioxx
Jan 19 2016 // More than 11 years after pulling its Vioxx painkiller from the market, Merck & Co. agreed to pay another $830 million to settle litigation, raising its total payouts in lawsuits and government investigations to more...
Kentucky Drone Suit Challenges Airspace Rules, Privacy Expectations
Jan 19 2016 // A lawsuit filed against a man who shot down a drone over his Hillview, Ky., home last summer seeks to resolve what expectations homeowners have to privacy as their property is seen from the air. The Courier-Journal reports...
Groups File Lawsuit Over North Carolina ‘Anti-Whistleblower’ Law
Jan 15 2016 // Animal-rights, food-safety and other groups sued this week to stop a new North Carolina law that helps employers punish people who get hired to steal company secrets or dig up dirt. The federal lawsuit was filed by People...
Virginia City, Insurers Settle Suit Filed by Wrongfully Convicted Man
Jan 14 2016 // The city of Newport News, Virginia, and its insurers have paid $2 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who spent nearly 23 years in jail before a judge tossed his conviction. The Daily Press reports that the...
Oklahoma Residents Sue 12 Energy Companies Following Earthquakes
Jan 14 2016 // A group of Edmond residents has filed a lawsuit against 12 energy companies, claiming that their saltwater disposal wells were partly to blame for earthquakes in central Oklahoma in recent weeks. The lawsuit seeks a...
Widow’s Damages Lawsuit Blames Twitter for Spread of ISIS
Jan 14 2016 // Twitter Inc. was accused in a lawsuit by the widow of a man killed at a police training center in Jordan of knowingly allowing the Islamic State to spread its terrorist message through its service. Twitter, like other...
Families of 3 Men Killed in North Carolina Scaffolding Collapse File Lawsuit
Jan 14 2016 // The families of three workers who died when scaffolding collapsed at a Raleigh, N.C., high-rise building have sued four firms connected with the project. Multiple media outlets report the law firm of former presidential...
Insurers to Pay Port in Washington Soil Contamination Suit
Jan 12 2016 // A Cowlitz County, Wash. judge has ordered insurers to pay the Port of Longview $2.45 million in attorney fees in an ongoing lawsuit over soil contamination. The Daily News reported that the order is the latest development...
Fired Arkansas Cop Sues City for $2.5M
Jan 12 2016 // A former Forrest City Police Department officer who was fired in 2014 over a photo posted on social media is suing the Arkansas city for more than $2.5 million. The Herald-Times reports the photo shows then-officer...
Boies, Edwards Among 140 Lawyers Vying to Take Lead Against Volkswagen
Jan 12 2016 // Among the more than 140 plaintiffs’ lawyers competing to lead private litigation against Volkswagen over its emissions cheating scandal is former U.S. Senator and Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate John...
Iowa City Settles Police Shooting Wrongful Death Suit for $2.5M
Jan 11 2016 // The city of Waterloo, Iowa, has settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a man shot to death in 2012 by a police officer. A judge signed off on the $2.5 million settlement with the city’s insurance...
Judge: Iowa Must Pay Nearly $1M in DNR Worker’s Disability Suit
Jan 11 2016 // The state must pay nearly $1 million after losing a discrimination lawsuit filed by a longtime Iowa Department of Natural Resources employee who said he was fired because he sought disability accommodations for a job...
Ohio’s Kent State to Pay $145K in Student Housing Discrimination Suit
Jan 11 2016 // The Justice Department announced that Ohio’s Kent State University (KSU) has agreed to pay $145,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit alleging that the university had maintained a policy of not allowing students with...
Refiled Suits in Oklahoma Allege Excessive Force by Ex-Reserve Deputy
Jan 11 2016 // Lawsuits have been refiled that allege a former Tulsa County volunteer sheriff’s deputy used excessive force when he fatally shot one man and used a stun gun on another. The lawsuits were refiled against Robert...
Indiana Company to Pay $100K to Resolve Age Discrimination Suit
Jan 11 2016 // Seymour Midwest, a Warsaw, Ind., hand tool manufacturing company, will pay $100,000 and furnish other relief to resolve an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the...
First Trial Over Faulty GM Ignition Switch to Open Today
Jan 11 2016 // General Motors is set to go to trial Monday in a lawsuit over its 2014 recall of millions of vehicles for a faulty ignition switch linked to nearly 400 injuries and deaths. In the lawsuit, plaintiff Robert Scheuers claims...
West Virginia Sues Prescription Drug Wholesaler For ‘Flooding’ State
Jan 11 2016 // West Virginia’s attorney general has accused one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical drug wholesalers of flooding the state with tens of millions of prescription pills in violation of state law. Attorney...
Oregon Wife Files $7.9M Suit After Husband Crushed by Dump Truck
Jan 11 2016 // A Medford, Ore., woman has filed a lawsuit against two construction companies after her husband was crushed to death by a dump truck in a construction area on Interstate 5 near Cottage Grove. Karee Battenfield filed a $7.9...
Oregon Woman Struck by Car Files Suit over Designer Clothes
Jan 11 2016 // A Portland, Ore. woman struck by a drunken driver in a crosswalk has filed a lawsuit seeking $4,600 for the designer clothes she was wearing at the time, on top of the cost of her medical bills. Susan Layne sued in...
