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States to Sue VW Over Diesel Scandal
Jul 19 2016 // New York and Maryland are among several states planning to sue Volkswagen AG over the environmental damage done by devices that were designed by the carmaker to cheat on pollution-control tests. Maryland Attorney General...
Retired Pro Wrestlers Sue WWE Over Head Injuries
Jul 19 2016 // World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. was sued on behalf of Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka and dozens of other retired wrestlers who claim the company hid the long-term effects of neurological injuries from years of being...
$30M Settlement with Bristol-Myers Squibb in California Whistleblower Suit
Jul 18 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones reached a $30 million settlement with pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb over allegations of drug marketing fraud and physician kickbacks. The settlement stems from...
Federal Government Sues California Homeowner for $25M over Wildfire
Jul 18 2016 // The federal government is suing a California homeowner for nearly $25 million, contending his negligence sparked a 2013 fire in the mountains east of Los Angeles that forced 5,000 people from their homes. The lawsuit says...
Switch Sues Nevada Regulators, NV Energy over Efforts to go Solar
Jul 15 2016 // A data-storage center company sued Nevada electricity regulators and NV Energy this week, saying it got an unfair deal when it tried to leave the grid and suffered at the hands of a former state employee who tweeted about...
Woman Who Broke Ankle on L.A. Skyscraper Slide Files Suit
Jul 15 2016 // A lawsuit claims a woman suffered a broken ankle on a recently opened glass-enclosed slide attached to the exterior of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper. City News Service says the lawsuit filed this week against building...
House GOP Wants Democratic AGs’ Records on Climate Change Suit Against Exxon
Jul 15 2016 // Escalating a political fight over global warming, a Republican House chairman issued subpoenas this week to two Democratic state attorneys general, seeking records about their investigation into whether Exxon Mobil misled...
Baton Rouge Police Sued by ACLU, Other Groups over Protests
Jul 14 2016 // Civil rights groups and activists sued Baton Rouge law enforcement agencies over their treatment of protesters rallying against the police shooting death of a black man, saying officers used excessive force and physically...
Family of Girl Who Choked on Marshmallow Sues Parents Who Hosted Party
Jul 14 2016 // The family of an 11-year-old Massachusetts girl who died after choking on a marshmallow at a friend’s birthday party has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages in the death of...
Court Removes GM Bankruptcy Shield on Ignition Switch Claims
Jul 14 2016 // General Motors’ 2009 bankruptcy does not shield it from lawsuits over a deadly ignition-switch defect that led to criminal charges against the automaker and prompted the recall of 2.6 million vehicles in 2014, a...
Insurers Lose Bid to Dismiss Suit Over Bear Stearns Financial Crisis Settlement Costs
Jul 14 2016 // A decade ago, Bear Stearns Cos. agreed to pay $250 million to resolve regulators’ claims that it was at the center of a system that allowed clients to break mutual-fund trading rules. JPMorgan Chase & Co., which...
Louisiana Judge: City-Parish to Remain in Lawsuit over Sewer Hole Drowning
Jul 13 2016 // A state judge has refused to dismiss the city-parish from a lawsuit by the mother of a 4-year-old Baton Rouge boy who drowned in an abandoned sewer hole near his home in 2014. The East Baton Rouge City-Parish government...
Ex-Workers Allege Age Discrimination, Sue Spirit AeroSystems in Kansas
Jul 13 2016 // Twenty-four workers laid off by Spirit AeroSystem in 2013 have sued the aircraft parts maker alleging it targeted older workers covered by its health insurance who had costly medical conditions. The former employees,...
Fox News’ Ailes Says Anchor’s Harassment Suit Against Him Belongs in Arbitration
Jul 13 2016 // Lawyers for Fox News chairman Roger Ailes on Friday asked a judge to halt anchor Gretchen Carlson’s “shameless publicity campaign” against her former boss, and send her sexual harassment lawsuit against...
Photographer Sues B.B. King’s Estate for Copyright Infringement
Jul 13 2016 // A New York photographer is suing B.B. King’s estate and Universal Music Group for copyright infringement after he says his pictures of the blues legend have been used on King’s albums for more than 40 years...
21st Century Fox Quietly Settles Unpaid Intern Litigation
Jul 13 2016 // Two 21st Century Fox Inc. units have settled class-action litigation by former interns who said they should have been paid for their work, in a case that sparked multimillion-dollar settlements with interns at other big...
Washington-based Spirit Aerosystems Hit with Worker Discrimination Suit
Jul 12 2016 // Employees laid off by Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. in 2013 filed a lawsuit on Monday accusing the aircraft parts supplier of singling them out by age and disability. Twenty-four plaintiffs were named and another 150...
Rhode Island Arena Sued by 8 Acrobats Injured During Show
Jul 12 2016 // Eight acrobats who plunged to the ground during a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus act in 2014 are suing the company that manages the Rhode Island arena where it happened. The Providence Journal reported that...
Deleted Social Media Comments Trigger Suit Against Indianapolis Suburb
Jul 11 2016 // An Indianapolis suburb removed social media pages for the city and its police department after a lawsuit accused it of violating residents’ First Amendment rights by removing posted comments. The American Civil...
Comcast Sued By Oregon Cyclist Clotheslined By Cable
Jul 11 2016 // An Oregon cyclist who was clotheslined by a cable cord suspended across a road is suing Comcast and Portland Disposal. Portland attorney, Mark Ginsberg told the Oregonian that his 64-year-old client Michael A. Horner was...
