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Delaware County, Police Seek Dismissal of Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Jun 8 2023 // Attorneys for Delaware’s largest county and three police officers asked a federal judge on Tuesday to rule in their favor in a lawsuit stemming from a fatal police shooting in 2021. The family of Lymond Moses is...
Texas Car Dealership Sued for Age and Disability Discrimination
Jun 7 2023 // DALLAS – Pete’s Car Smart Inc., a car dealership based in Amarillo, Texas, violated federal law by firing a long-time employee based on her age and cardiovascular-related disability, the federal agency announced...
New York City Files Suit Against Hyundai, Kia Over Thefts
Jun 7 2023 // New York City has joined other municipalities in suing carmakers Hyundai and Kia for not having immobilizer anti-theft technology in some of their vehicles, which the municipalities claim has resulted in record car thefts...
Tesla’s $2.6 Billion SolarCity Buyout Ruled Fair as Dismissal of Shareholder Suit Upheld
Jun 7 2023 // esla Inc.’s $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 was “entirely fair” to shareholders, Delaware’s top court ruled, upholding the dismissal of an investor lawsuit and sparing Elon Musk from a...
Appeals Court Won’t Revisit Towers Watson $80M D&O Denial for Willis Merger Lawsuits
Jun 7 2023 // A federal appeals court has denied insurance broker Towers Watson a rehearing of a May ruling that found it may not be entitled to $80 million in insurance to cover settlements of shareholder lawsuits related to the merger...
U.S. Tightens Crackdown on Crypto With Lawsuits Against Coinbase, Binance
Jun 7 2023 // The top U.S. securities regulator sued cryptocurrency platform Coinbase on Tuesday, the second lawsuit in two days against a major crypto exchange, in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown on the industry and one that could...
Oregon City to Clear Sidewalk Tents to Settle Lawsuit with People With Disabilities
Jun 7 2023 // Portland, Oregon will remove tents blocking sidewalks under a tentative settlement in a lawsuit brought by people with disabilities who said sprawling homeless encampments prevent them from navigating Oregon’s most...
Child Sexual Assault Lawsuit Bill Fails to Advance in Pennsylvania
Jun 7 2023 // Child sexual abuse survivors pressed Pennsylvania lawmakers Monday to move ahead with opening a two-year window for them to file otherwise outdated lawsuits over their claims, but a partisan fight in the Legislature kept...
Vermont School Settles 1st Amendment Suit by Coach Over Comments on Trans Athlete
Jun 7 2023 // A Vermont school district will reinstate a middle school soccer coach who was suspended for misgendering a transgender female athlete, and will delete any reference to bullying investigations from his daughter’s...
SEC Sues Crypto Exchange Coinbase, One Day After Suing Binance
Jun 7 2023 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday sued Coinbase, accusing the largest U.S. cryptocurrency platform of operating illegally because it failed to register as an exchange, in another blow to the crypto...
3 Bodies Recovered in Iowa Building Collapse; Lawsuit Accuses City, Owners of Negligence
Jun 6 2023 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The bodies of three men have been removed from the site of a collapsed six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, about a week after part of the century-old structure tumbled to the...
Viewpoint: Impact of Florida Tort-Reform Bill Becomes Clear, But Litigation Expected
Jun 6 2023 // On March 24, 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law House Bill 837, resulting in the enactment of sweeping tort reform (“the Act”). The Act impacts various aspects of the civil justice system. The most...
Lawsuit Claiming Racism at Tesla Draws Almost 240 Black Workers Saying ‘Me Too’
Jun 6 2023 // A Black former assembly line staffer at Tesla Inc. is moving to add hundreds of other workers to his 2017 lawsuit in which he called the electric-car maker’s production floor a “hotbed for racist...
Google Antitrust Suit Over Ad Tech Sent Back to State Court
Jun 6 2023 // A judicial panel on Monday transferred antitrust litigation against Alphabet Inc.’s Google filed by state attorneys general back to a federal court in Texas, citing a law passed by Congress in December. The decision...
SEC Sues Binance and Founder Zhao Over ‘Web of Deception’
Jun 6 2023 // U.S. regulators sued Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao on Monday for allegedly operating a “web of deception,” piling further pressure on the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange and sending bitcoin...
Massachusetts City Faces Lawsuit Alleging Police Misconduct at George Floyd Protest
Jun 6 2023 // Eleven people have filed a federal lawsuit saying they were assaulted by police or wrongfully arrested while peacefully observing a June 2020 protest in Massachusetts’ second-largest city over the killing of George...
Freshpet Board Accused in Suit by Activist Jana of Breaching Duty
Jun 5 2023 // Freshpet Inc.’s board members were sued by activist shareholder Jana Partners over claims they breached their fiduciary duty by changing the number of directors up for election and accelerating its annual shareholder...
Washington Lawsuit Alleging Falsified Arrest Report Settled For $250K
Jun 5 2023 // A lawsuit filed by a Washington oyster farmer accusing a former county deputy of falsifying an arrest report and urging a person to lie during a domestic-violence investigation has been settled for $250, 000. Gerardo...
Family of Man Who Drowned in Arizona Lake Files Wrongful Death Suit
Jun 5 2023 // The family of a man who drowned in Tempe Town Lake in Arizona a year ago filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, noting that its police department doesn’t have a policy requiring officers to go into the...
Florida Courts Flooded with Claims Suits Ahead of Tort Reform Law
Jun 5 2023 // Just as the plaintiffs’ law firm of Morgan & Morgan warned, the number of Florida lawsuits filed across the state has shattered previous records, topping 280,122 in April, the Florida Bar reported. That’s...
