December 13, 2024
The District of Columbia has sued Amazon, alleging the company secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents of two predominantly Black neighborhoods while still charging millions of dollars for a membership that promises the benefit. The complaint filed …
November 12, 2024
Former first lady Michelle Obama’s brother and his wife have settled a lawsuit they filed in 2022 alleging a private school in Milwaukee refused to reenroll their children after the couple raised concerns about racism and inappropriate conduct at the …
March 12, 2024
Reports in New Jersey of incidents of bias — like antisemitism and anti-Black behavior among others — climbed by 22% last year, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the attorney general. Attorney General Matt Platkin’s office released the unofficial …
February 29, 2024
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused it of operating a so-called debtors’ prison. The legal …
February 2, 2024
A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out a $366.2 million verdict against FedEx in a case brought by a Black sales manager who said the package delivery company fired her in retaliation for accusing her supervisor of race discrimination. …
August 16, 2023
Umpire Ángel Hernández lost again in his racial discrimination lawsuit against Major League Baseball when a federal appeals court refused to reinstate his case on Tuesday. The 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a 2021 District Court decision that …
March 27, 2023
A trial kicks off in San Francisco federal court on Monday to determine how much money Tesla Inc. must pay to a Black elevator operator who a jury determined was subjected to severe racial harassment while working at the electric …
February 3, 2023
A U.S. judge rejected FedEx Corp’s request to throw out or reduce a jury’s $366 million damages award to a Black former employee who said the package delivery company fired her after she complained about racial discrimination. FedEx appealed the …
December 16, 2022
State Farm’s claims handling process is the subject of a new lawsuit alleging disparities between the insurer’s treatment of claims from Black policyholders versus claims from white policyholders. The suit filed Dec. 14 against State Farm Fire & Casualty Company …
October 4, 2022
McDonald’s Corp. has temporarily beat back a lawsuit by 52 Black former franchise owners who claim the fast-food giant set them up for failure by steering them towards crime-ridden, low-income neighborhoods. A federal judge in Chicago dismissed the 2020 lawsuit …