Latest Lawsuits Headlines
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Walmart Seeks End to Refiled Gender Bias Lawsuit
Jan 18 2012 // Women who refiled a gender discrimination lawsuit against Walmart Stores Inc. have failed to come to grips with the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended their nationwide class action against the company, Walmart...
$100M Gender Bias Suit Filed Against Quest Diagnostics in New Jersey
Jan 17 2012 // Female sales representatives for Quest Diagnostics are accusing the diagnostic testing company of gender discrimination in a $100 million federal lawsuit. The federal lawsuit was filed Thursday in Newark, N.J., by two...
Nevada Doctors Sue Woman, Claim She Embezzled
Jan 17 2012 // A group of Reno, Nev. emergency physicians has sued a woman who oversaw its billing and accounting, claiming she has embezzled more than $700,000 since 1999. The Reno Gazette-Journal reported the Reno Emergency Physicians...
Accounting Firms Cleared of Blame in Japan’s Olympus Scandal
Jan 17 2012 // An unofficial panel of experts cleared global accounting groups KPMG and Ernst & Young of any responsibility for a $1.7 billion accounting fraud at Japan’s Olympus Corp, though the role of the firms remained...
Cruise Ship Victims Can’t Use U.S. Courts: Expert
Jan 17 2012 // Victims of the Italian cruise ship disaster who might seek to sue in the United States, where damages lawsuits are a virtual industry, may be barred from doing so. The primary reason, legal experts said, is that contracts...
Cancer Village Lawsuit Tests China’s Pollution Lawsuit Climate
Jan 17 2012 // Nothing in Wu Wenyong’s rural childhood hinted he would end up on a hospital bed aged 15, battling two kinds of cancer. Born to poor farmers in Xiaoxin, a dusty village of low brick houses in southwestern Yunnan...
Man Claiming Abuse by Sandusky Asks to Intervene in Insurance Lawsuit
Jan 13 2012 // A man who claims to have been sexually abused as a child by former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky is asking to intervene in an insurance lawsuit, according to a local news report. The Centre Daily Times in Pennsylvania...
Accused Indiana Nose Doctor Sues Alabama Insurance Company
Jan 13 2012 // A former nose surgeon from northwestern Indiana accused of billing insurers and patients for procedures he didn’t perform is suing his malpractice insurance company, claiming it failed to properly defend him in...
Judge Allows Suit Alleging GE Misled Investors
Jan 13 2012 // A federal judge refused on Thursday to throw out a lawsuit accusing General Electric Co and its chief executive of misleading investors about the conglomerate’s financial health and exposure to risky debt during the...
Court Denies Class Action Suit Against American Honda
Jan 13 2012 // American Honda Motor Co. won a legal victory as a divided U.S. appeals court on Thursday said a nationwide lawsuit over a brake system used in some Acura RL vehicles should not have been certified as a class-action. The...
Court: Workers’ Comp Bars Iraq Convoy Drivers’ Suit Against KBR, Halliburton
Jan 12 2012 // A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit brought against KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co. by the families of two convoy drivers killed in a 2004 insurgent attack in Iraq. The U.S. Court of Appeal for the 5th...
Supreme Court Rules Religious Ministers Not Covered by Job Bias Laws
Jan 12 2012 // Religious groups and churches may hire and fire their leaders without being subject to laws against discrimination in employment, the U.S. Supreme Court said this week in a unanimous landmark ruling. For the first time,...
States Need to Regulate Litigation Financing Industry: Professor
Jan 11 2012 // Some invest their money in stocks, some in bonds, some in real estate. Increasingly, investors are also putting their money into lawsuits, and University of Iowa law professor Maya Steinitz argues that federal and state...
Lawsuit Claims Hazing on Mississippi High School Baseball Team
Jan 11 2012 // Members of a south Mississippi high school baseball team participated in a hazing ritual that left one teenager hospitalized after being held from behind and punched in the chest, according to a lawsuit filed by the...
‘Swamp People’ Star Sues Over Use of Sayings
Jan 10 2012 // Troy Landry from The History Channel’s “Swamp People” is accusing three companies of profiting from his “Choot Em” and other trademark-protected catch-phrases. A federal lawsuit filed in...
Boston Lawsuit Claims DES-Breast Cancer Link
Jan 10 2012 // Arline MacCormack first heard about DES from her mother when she was 17. Three decades later, MacCormack believes that the drug her mother took to prevent miscarriages caused her to develop breast cancer at age...
Supreme Court Walmart Ruling Shakes Up Employment Class Actions
Jan 10 2012 // The Supreme Court’s decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, heralded last term as a game-changer in employment class actions, has lived up to the hype. Since the Court issued the Dukes decision in June, it has been cited by...
South Carolina Judge Grants Initial OK for Class Action Over Sun City Homes
Jan 10 2012 // A South Carolina judge has granted preliminary class-action status to lawsuits alleging defective stucco work on homes in Sun City Hilton Head. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reported that Judge J. Michael Baxley issued...
Connecticut Law Nixing Legitimate Malpractice Lawsuits
Jan 9 2012 // After losing a baby because of an incompetent cervix, Patricia Votre thought she was well prepared when she got pregnant again. She made arrangements with her doctors to consult with high-risk pregnancy experts from Yale...
Judge Dismisses Most Claims in New Mexico Gay Bias Lawsuit
Jan 9 2012 // A judge has dismissed most of the claims in a New Mexico lawsuit by two women who alleged their daughter’s teacher discriminated against the girl because her parents are gay. Shannon Peterson and Jessica Bissell sued...
