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Lawsuit Filed Against Lighting Company Over Ohio Cannabis Facility Explosion
Mar 7 2024 // An Ohio cannabis manufacturer and its insurer are suing a lighting products provider for negligence after a lamp it sold exploded at a greenhouse, causing six figures worth of damages. Cure Ohio and Dorchester Insurance...
Most Americans Want Legal Reforms Against Practices Like Litigation Funding: Survey
Mar 6 2024 // A majority of Americans are unaware of third-party litigation funding but most believe state and federal laws should be changed to address abuses in the legal system. According to the results of a recent survey of 2,000...
Connecticut Residents Sue Kimberly-Clark Over PFAS Use That Firm Denies
Mar 6 2024 // Some of manufacturer Kimberly-Clark Corp.’s neighbors in New Milford, Connecticut believe the paper goods manufacturer has contaminated their soil and drinking water with PFAS chemicals. Three of them have filed a...
US Trade Groups Sue Over Biden Rule on ‘Gig’ Work, Contracting
Mar 6 2024 // Major U.S. business groups on Tuesday filed the latest lawsuit challenging a Biden administration rule that would make it more difficult for companies to treat some workers as independent contractors rather than...
SpaceX Bid to Keep Labor Suit in Texas Denied by 5th Circuit
Mar 5 2024 // SpaceX’s bid to keep its lawsuit against the US National Labor Relations Board in Texas was denied by a federal appeals court, a setback for Elon Musk’s aerospace company in its battle against the agency. The...
Lawsuit Claims Isolation and Abuse at Wyoming Boys School
Mar 5 2024 // Staff at Wyoming’s state youth detention facility locked juveniles in solitary confinement for weeks at a time, repeatedly buckled one in a restraint chair for up to 12 hours a day and poked fun at another while...
Berkshire Unit Added to Lawsuit Over Inflated Real Estate Commissions
Mar 5 2024 // A unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway was added on Monday to a lawsuit accusing the National Association of Realtors and several brokerages of conspiring to keep real estate commissions artificially high...
Volkswagen Faces Pair of Lawsuits Over Claim Porsche EV Battery Sparked Ship Fire
Mar 5 2024 // Volkswagen AG faces a pair of lawsuits in Germany over claims it was the battery in a Porsche electric vehicle that triggered the 2022 fire onboard a massive cargo ship that eventually sank with thousands of cars on...
Former Twitter Execs Sue Elon Musk for Over $128M in Severance
Mar 5 2024 // Four former top Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, have sued Elon Musk for over $128 million in combined unpaid severance, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in...
Family of Man Who Died After Being Punched by Detroit Police Sues for $50M
Mar 4 2024 // DETROIT (AP) — The family of a 70-year-old man who died after a Detroit police officer punched him in the face, causing him to fall to the ground, is suing the former officer and the city of Detroit, seeking $50 million...
AI Firms Face Growing List of Lawsuits. Here’s What to Watch
Mar 4 2024 // Artificial intelligence firms are facing increasing pressure from some of the world’s most formidable names in technology and media, as new tools spark fresh questions over the risks posed by chatbots that threaten...
Mistrial Declared in Lawsuit Blaming Landscaper’s Cancer on Roundup Weedkiller
Mar 4 2024 // A Delaware judge declared a mistrial Friday in the latest lawsuit alleging that exposure to the popular weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. The ruling came about two hours after jurors sent a note saying they were unable to...
Xcel Energy Utility Equipment Started Texas Wildfire, Homeowner Claims in Lawsuit
Mar 4 2024 // March 1 (Reuters) – A Texas homeowner whose house was destroyed by a massive wildfire raging northeast of Amarillo sued electric utility Xcel Energy XEL.O on Friday, alleging that a splintered power pole owned by the...
Sisters of Man Fatally Shot by Police in Chicago Suburb File Federal Lawsuit
Mar 1 2024 // CHICAGO (AP) — The sisters of a man fatally shot in his home this month by suburban Chicago police filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the officers and their department, alleging wrongful death and other...
UK Plc Attracts Wave of Takeover Offers From Foreign Suitors
Mar 1 2024 // The UK has become a hotbed for mergers and acquisitions this year as dealmakers hunt for bargains in the country’s underperforming stock market. Direct Line Insurance Group Plc and electronics retailer Currys Plc...
Job Cuts, Fleeing Investors: How Anti-DEI Lawsuits Take a Toll on Targets
Mar 1 2024 // Elizabeth Gore is fighting for survival. Just six months ago, the founder of financial technology startup Hello Alice was getting ready to close an investment round to grow its business offering grants and networking...
Tesla Must Face Class Action Claims by 6,000 Workers in Race Bias Case
Feb 29 2024 // A California state judge has tentatively ruled that nearly 6,000 Black factory workers can sue Tesla as a group for the electric vehicle maker’s alleged failure to address rampant race discrimination and harassment...
Lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X Against Hate Speech Watchdog Heads to Court
Feb 29 2024 // A U.S. judge on Thursday will consider whether to dismiss X Corp’s lawsuit against a nonprofit that has criticized a rise in hate speech on the social media platform once known as Twitter since Elon Musk took it...
St. Louis Suburb to Pay $4.5M Settlement Over ‘Debtors Prison’ Suit
Feb 29 2024 // ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused it of operating a so-called debtors’...
Google Hit With $2.3B Lawsuit by 32 European Media Groups
Feb 29 2024 // BRUSSELS – Alphabet’s Google was hit with a 2.1-billion-euro ($2.3 billion) lawsuit by 32 media groups including Axel Springer and Schibsted on Wednesday, alleging that they had suffered losses due to the...
