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Lawyers Who Blamed ChatGPT for Bogus Case Law Fined $5,000
Jun 26 2023 // A federal judge on Thursday imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm in an unprecedented instance in which ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an aviation injury claim. Judge...
Home Depot Paying $72.5M to Settle California Wage Class Action
Jun 23 2023 // Home Depot HD.N has agreed to pay $72.5 million to end a long-running class-action lawsuit alleging the largest U.S. home improvement retailer underpaid workers in California. The preliminary settlement was filed late...
JPMorgan Agrees to Pay $290 Million to Settle Epstein Suit
Jun 23 2023 // JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay $290 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it knowingly benefited from former client Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking, according to a court filing late Thursday. Lawyers for...
Atlanta City Clerk Sued for Denying ‘Stop Cop City’ Petition Lets Effort Move Forward
Jun 23 2023 // Facing a lawsuit from opponents of Atlanta’s proposed police and firefighter training center, the city clerk on Wednesday approved a petition that seeks to force a voter referendum on halting the complex. The...
Teenage Volleyball Player Who Lost Legs in St. Louis Accident Sues Drivers, City
Jun 23 2023 // ST. LOUIS (AP) – A teenage volleyball player from Tennessee is suing the Missouri city of St. Louis and two drivers who struck her in February, causing her to lose both legs. The lawsuit on behalf of Janae Edmondson...
Titanic Sub Victims’ Families Could Still Sue Despite Liability Waivers
Jun 23 2023 // Liability waivers signed by passengers on a submersible lost at sea during a dive to the Titanic wreck may not shield the vessel’s owner from potential lawsuits by the victims’ families, legal experts said. The...
MLB Sued by 17 Ex-Scouts Over Age Discrimination
Jun 23 2023 // Seventeen former Major League Baseball scouts who say they were discriminated against because of their age sued the league, its teams and Commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court...
Massachusetts Judge Rejects Auto Insurance Class Actions Over Diminished Value
Jun 23 2023 // A judge in Massachusetts has 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...
Oregon Climate Change Lawsuit Seeks $50B, Citing 2021 Heat Wave
Jun 22 2023 // An Oregon county on Thursday sued Exxon XOM.N, Chevron CVX.N, other major oil and coal companies, and industry groups, seeking over $50 billion to counter the harms caused by extreme weather fueled by climate...
Lawsuit: Insufficient Testing of Titanic Sub Put Passengers in ‘Potential Extreme Danger’
Jun 22 2023 // The company whose submersible vanished in the North Atlantic on a tourist dive to the wreck of the Titanic was repeatedly warned that there might be “catastrophic” safety problems with the venture, documents...
Colorado Supreme Court Strikes Law Allowing Child Sex Abuse Suits from Decades Past
Jun 22 2023 // Childhood sexual abuse victims in Colorado will no longer be able to file lawsuits over abuse that happened decades ago, as the state Supreme Court struck down a law Tuesday that gave victims a three-year window to sue...
Indiana Community Hospital Sued for Disability Discrimination
Jun 21 2023 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a suit it filed against Munster Medical Research Foundation, Inc., operators of Community Hospital, located in Munster, Indiana, for failing to accommodate...
FTC Sues Amazon for Hindering Consumer Attempts to Cancel Prime
Jun 21 2023 // The US Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon.com Inc. Wednesday, alleging the e-commerce giant duped consumers into signing up for its Prime membership service and deliberately made it hard to cancel. The consumer...
Twitter Employees Sue Company, Claiming It Refuses to Pay 2022 Bonuses
Jun 21 2023 // Twitter Inc. employees sued the social media company claiming it refuses to pay 2022 bonuses, despite promises that they would be paid out at 50% of their target amounts. Twitter has a cash performance bonus plan that is...
Lawsuit Claims Teen was Assaulted After Getting Drunk at Greg Norman’s Fla. Home
Jun 21 2023 // LIV Golf leader Greg Norman and his wife are being sued by a high school girl who says she was sexually assaulted at their Florida home by two boys during a party where alcohol was served to her, her alleged attackers and...
Family Suing California Cemetery After Remains of Juneteenth Trailblazer Missing from Burial Plot
Jun 21 2023 // Relatives of a late Black businessman who helped popularize Juneteenth in San Diego are suing a cemetery after his remains were reported missing from the family’s burial plot. Greenwood Memorial Park and Mortuary...
7th Circuit: Insurer Must Defend Firm Sued for Selling Facial Recognition Program to Chicago Police
Jun 20 2023 // An ambiguous coverage exclusion prevents a liability insurer from dodging the cost of defending a data broker that was sued after selling the Chicago Police Department access to a facial recognition database that...
Wisconsin School District to Pay $450K to Settle Equal Pay Lawsuit
Jun 20 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...
Louisiana Health Care Provider Sued by EEOC for Race Harassment and Retaliation
Jun 20 2023 // The Council for the Advancement of Social Services and Education, doing business as CASSE Community Health Institute, violated federal law when it subjected a Black employee to a hostile work environment on the basis of...
Report: McClenny Moseley Filed More Insurance Lawsuits Than Any Other Law Firm
Jun 20 2023 // A $2 million fine, sanctions by federal courts and state bar orders that prevent its partners from practicing law do not change the fact that McClenny Moseley Associates filed more lawsuits in 2022 than any other US law...
