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Musk’s X Accuses Advertisers of Boycotting Platform in New Lawsuit

Aug 7 2024 // Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday sued a global advertising alliance and several major companies, including Mars and CVS Health, accusing them of unlawfully conspiring to boycott the site and causing it...

Environmental Groups Sue Suncor for Colorado Refinery Pollution

Aug 7 2024 // Environmental groups filed a lawsuit against Suncor Energy on Tuesday, alleging that pollution from the company’s Commerce City refinery in Colorado has resulted in long-lasting harm to surrounding communities.The...

TikTok Sued by US for Allegedly Breaking Kids’ Privacy Law

Aug 5 2024 // TikTok was sued by the US for allegedly collecting data on children in violation of an online privacy act, three months after the popular video app sued the government over a law that could ban it across the country.In a...

Insurer’s Lack of Repairs Caused Woman’s Death After Ian, Florida Lawsuit Says

Aug 5 2024 // Just as another hurricane hit Florida, the child of a central Florida woman is litigating a claim from a previous storm – Hurricane Ian in 2022. This time, though, the plaintiff claims not only breach of contract by a...

Texas Assisted Living Facility Sued for Firing Worker With Sleep Disorder

Aug 2 2024 // VibraLife of Katy, LLC, a rehabilitation and assisted living facility in Katy, Texas, violated federal law when it denied an employee an accommodation for her sleep disorder and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment...

Boar’s Head Hit With Consumer Lawsuit After Deli Meat Recall Over Listeria Concerns

Aug 2 2024 // Boar’s Head Provisions was hit with a proposed consumer class action lawsuit in New York federal court on Thursday, a day after it expanded its recall to more than seven million pounds of deli meats and other...

AI Startup Suno Says Music Industry Suit Aims to Stifle Competition

Aug 2 2024 // AI music startup Suno is pushing back against the world’s biggest record labels, saying in a court filing that a lawsuit they filed against the company aims to stifle competition.In a filing Thursday in federal court...

Apple Asks Judge to Toss Antitrust Lawsuit

Aug 2 2024 // Apple on Thursday asked a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit by federal and state antitrust regulators accusing it of illegally monopolizing the smartphone market, saying the case would have a judge redesign its popular...

District of Columbia Sues StubHub Claiming It Inflates Ticket Prices With Deceptive Fees

Aug 1 2024 // The attorney general for Washington, D.C., sued StubHub on Wednesday, accusing the ticket resale platform of advertising deceptively low prices and then ramping up prices with extra fees.The practice known as “drip...

Missouri Trucking Company Sued for Refusing to Hire a Deaf Job Applicant

Aug 1 2024 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Missouri- based trucking company Transportation Management Group, doing business as Wilson Logistics, for violating federal law when it refused to hire a deaf...

CrowdStrike Is Sued by Shareholders Over Huge Software Outage

Aug 1 2024 // CrowdStrike has been sued by shareholders who said the cybersecurity company defrauded them by concealing how its inadequate software testing could cause the July 19 global outage that crashed more than 8 million...

Meta Platforms to Pay $1.4B to Settle Texas Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition Data

Jul 30 2024 // Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans...

Wells Fargo Must Face Lawsuit Over Sham Job Interviews

Jul 30 2024 // A U.S. judge ordered Wells Fargo to face a lawsuit alleging it defrauded shareholders by proclaiming its commitment to hiring diversity, even as it conducted sham job interviews of non-white and female applicants it had no...

Tyco, TIG Insurance Agree to Settle ‘Forever Chemicals’ Fire Foam Litigation

Jul 29 2024 // Three months after Tyco Fire Products agreed to pay $750 million to communities with groundwater affected by so-called “forever chemicals” found in fire-stopping foam, Tyco has reached a tentative settlement...

Dozens of Catholic Priests and Nuns Accused of Child Abuse in Missouri Lawsuits

Jul 29 2024 // ST. LOUIS (AP) — Sixty people allege in new lawsuits filed in Missouri that they were abused as children by dozens of Catholic priests, nuns and others, and the man who now leads the Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska, is...

Bayer’s Monsanto to Pay $160M to Resolve Seattle’s PCB Contamination Lawsuit

Jul 29 2024 // Monsanto will pay $160 million to settle a lawsuit by the city of Seattle that accused the unit of Germany’s Bayer of polluting the city’s drainage system and the local Lower Duwamish River with toxic chemicals...

Allstate’s National General Sued by DOJ Over Alleged Force-Placed Insurance ‘Scheme’

Jul 26 2024 // Allstate’s National General auto insurance brand has been sued by the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations that National General and subsidiaries “engaged in a scheme to defraud customers” by...

Florida Coach and Co-Defendants Ask Court to Drop Jaden Rashada NIL Lawsuit

Jul 25 2024 // GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida coach Billy Napier and two co-defendants on Tuesday filed motions to dismiss quarterback Jaden Rashada’s lawsuit regarding a failed name, image and likeness deal worth nearly $14...

Lawsuits Detail Decades of Sexual Abuse at Chicago Youth Detention Center

Jul 25 2024 // CHICAGO (AP) — Temarkus Washington says the sexual abuse he experienced as a teenager at a troubled Chicago youth detention center still gives him nightmares.The 35-year-old spoke publicly about his experiences Tuesday,...

California Homeowners Sue FAIR Plan Over Smoke Damage Coverage

Jul 25 2024 // A class action lawsuit is being brought on behalf of more than 350,000 policyholders against the California FAIR Plan over smoke damage coverage.Dylan Schaffer, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, told...