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‘Climate-Washing’ Litigation
Jul 17 2023 // Challenges to corporate climate commitments, claims about product attributes, overstated investments or support for climate action, and failure to disclose climate risks are on the rise and hitting some courts today,...
Massachusetts Judge Rejects Auto Insurance Class Actions Over Diminished Value
Jul 17 2023 // A judge in Massachusetts denied class certifications for claimants seeking payments from two insurers for the lost resale value of their motor vehicles that were damaged in accidents and then repaired. Suffolk County...
Wisconsin School District to Pay $450K to Settle Equal Pay Lawsuit
Jul 17 2023 // Verona Area School District in Madison, Wisconsin will pay $450,000, raise salaries, and furnish other relief to settle a pay discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the...
Buffalo Supermarket Shooting Victims Sue Facebook, Amazon, Other Tech Giants
Jul 14 2023 // Tech and social media giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google bear responsibility for radicalizing the Buffalo supermarket shooter, who was fueled by racist conspiracy theories he encountered online, the victim’s...
Twitter Owes Ex-Employees $500M in Severance, Lawsuit Claims
Jul 13 2023 // Twitter Inc on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance to thousands of employees who were laid off after Elon Musk acquired the company. Courtney...
Justice Department Reversal: Trump Can Be Held Liable in Writer’s Defamation Lawsuit
Jul 13 2023 // The Justice Department on Tuesday said that Donald Trump can be held personally liable for remarks he made about a woman who accused him of rape — a reversal of its position that Trump was protected because he was...
Insurers Sue Energy Corporation Blamed for Helping Start Colorado Wildfire
Jul 12 2023 // Dozens of insurance companies are suing Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy to recoup money paid out to homes and businesses lost in Colorado`s most destructive wildfire in 2021. The lawsuit was filed Thursday, a few weeks after...
Railroad Industry Sues to Block Limit on Crew Sizes That Ohio Imposed After Derailment
Jul 12 2023 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – The railroad industry has sued to block a new minimum crew- size requirement that Ohio imposed after a fiery train derailment in East Palestine in February. The new rule was part of a $13.5 billion...
HCA Data Leak Affects 11 Million; Class Action Says 9 Million Hit by Dental Insurer Breach
Jul 12 2023 // Nashville-based HCAHealthcare, the largest for-profit operator of hospitals and clinics in the U.S., said that patient information had been leaked to an online forum. The breach leaked data for as many as 11 million...
Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Against Royal Caribbean Over Toddler’s Death
Jul 12 2023 // A federal appeals court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit against Royal Caribbean Cruises by the parents of an 18-month-old girl who died after slipping through her grandfather’s hands and falling through an open cruise...
Former VW Executives Ordered to Testify in Investor Lawsuit
Jul 11 2023 // A German court will call former Volkswagen AG executives as witnesses in a €9 billion ($9.8 billion) investor lawsuit over the diesel emissions scandal to find out what the top brass knew about the the so-called defeat...
Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Seeking Reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Jul 11 2023 // An Oklahoma judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dashing an effort to obtain some measure of legal justice by survivors of the deadly racist rampage. Judge Caroline Wall on...
$40M Lawsuit by Virginia Teacher Who Was Shot: Civil Court or Workers’ Compensation?
Jul 11 2023 // Lawyers for a teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in Virginia can start the process of interviewing eyewitnesses, reviewing the boy`s disciplinary files and accessing other records for a $40 million lawsuit...
SVB Financial Sues FDIC to Recover $1.9B Seized in Bank Rescue
Jul 10 2023 // Bankrupt SVB Financial Group has sued the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) to recover the $1.93 billion that the regulator seized while it took over Silicon Valley Bank in March, a filing in a bankruptcy court on...
Comedian Sarah Silverman Sues Meta, OpenAI for Copyright Infringement
Jul 10 2023 // Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language...
Kansas Attorney General Sues to Prevent Transgender People From Changing Driver’s Licenses
Jul 10 2023 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – The Republican attorney general of Kansas sued Friday to block transgender residents from changing their sex on their driver`s licenses and to rebuke the Democratic governor for defying his...
Former Delaware Trooper Faces Lawsuit for Theft Scheme Targeting Shipping Firm
Jul 10 2023 // A package reshipping company targeted in a theft scheme by a former Delaware State Police trooper has filed a lawsuit against him and the police agency. TotalTransLogistics LLC said in a complaint filed this week in...
90 Vermont Schools Sue Monsanto Over Toxic PCB Contamination of Buildings
Jul 7 2023 // Dozens of Vermont school districts have sued chemical giant Monsanto over toxic contamination in educational buildings from now-banned industrial chemicals known as PCBs. Last year, Vermont became the first state in the...
Massachusetts High Court Affirms Limit on Wrongful Death Suits in Tobacco Ruling
Jul 7 2023 // If a person’s right to bring a personal injury lawsuit has expired by the time of his or her death, the person’s estate is barred from bringing a wrongful death suit in Massachusetts for the benefit of the...
US Labor Agency Sues Starbucks Over Treatment of Seattle Workers
Jul 6 2023 // The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday sued Starbucks SBUX.O over the coffee chain’s refusal to rehire 33 workers as it reorganized three downtown Seattle stores, including its flagship store in Pike Place...
