February 24, 2020
Jurors have awarded $3,500 to a woman who was shocked three times with a stun gun after a St. Louis, Mo., march protesting police misconduct. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that jurors found in favor of University City School Board …
February 7, 2020
An African-American man fired from his TV talk show producer job at One America News Network was not harassed on the basis of racial prejudice, but was fired in part because he lodged his complaint, a California jury found. The …
January 6, 2020
The owners and operators of a San Diego, Calif.-based porn website must pay $12.7 million after a judge found them liable for fraud and breach of contract for lying to women about how their explicit videos would be distributed, according …
December 30, 2019
A judge has overturned a jury’s award of nearly $15.5 million to a former sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times who said he was forced out of his job because of age and health discrimination. Superior Court Judge William …
December 19, 2019
A jury has awarded more than $9 million in damages to a man and woman from Vancouver, British Columbia, who were struck by an 18-wheeler truck while riding their bikes along Interstate 84 in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. …
December 2, 2019
The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld a $4.9 million jury verdict awarded to a Texas woman after she fell outside a hotel on an icy sidewalk. The court in its ruling last week rejected arguments by Marriott International that …
September 16, 2019
A jury has awarded three plaintiffs injured in a 2017 Amtrak derailment outside DuPont, Wash. a total of $16.75 million in damages, Luvera Law Firm said in a statement. The plaintiffs, Dale Skyllingstad, Blaine Wilmotte and Madison Wilmotte, are the …
August 22, 2019
A former Planned Parenthood Arizona employee who claimed she was wrongfully fired after she reported unsafe medical practices has been awarded $3 million in a civil case. A Maricopa County jury returned the verdict Aug. 16 for Mayra Rodriguez, who …
August 21, 2019
A jury has awarded nearly $15.5 million to a former sports columnist for The Los Angeles Times who said he was forced out of his job because of age and health discrimination. The award is more than twice the $7.1 …
August 14, 2019
A jury has awarded more than $13 million to three women, finding they were harmed and did not consent to sexual contact by an employee of a California psychiatric facility. The Ventura County Star reports the jury found Monday that …