All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 7 2022 // CORRECTION: The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the city spokesperson. It is Lisa Church, not Lisa Adams. This article has been corrected to reflect that change.Family members of a 22-year-old woman whose...
Nov 7 2022 // Police have begun investigating allegations that former San Antonio Spurs guard Joshua Primo exposed himself on multiple occasions to a former team therapist during counseling sessions.Dr. Hillary Cauthen filed a lawsuit...
Nov 7 2022 // A federal judge has dismissed FedEx from a lawsuit filed by relatives of five of the eight people who were fatally shot last year at an Indianapolis warehouse by a former employee of the shipping giant.U.S. District Judge...
Nov 7 2022 // A federal judge in Louisiana is threatening to fine a Houston-based law firm $200 for each duplicate or baseless lawsuit he finds among the 1,642 that the firm has filed against insurers for alleged hurricane damages.US...
Nov 7 2022 // A federal appeals court has ordered a nine-year-old lawsuit filed against oil and gas companies over damage to Louisiana’s wetlands to be returned to state court for trial, potentially clearing the way for at least...
Nov 4 2022 // Pro golfer Patrick Reed has filed another lawsuit in federal court in Florida, alleging that a slew of news outlets, a book author, publishers and others have worked to defame the 2018 winner of the Masters golf...
Nov 4 2022 // Twitter Inc. was sued over Elon Musk’s plan to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at the social-media platform, which workers say the company is doing without enough notice in violation of federal and California law.A...
Nov 3 2022 // ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis jury has ruled that Ford Motor Co. and other companies must pay $6 million to a Missouri family over claims that a woman’s death was caused by exposure to asbestos, including from dust...
Nov 3 2022 // DETROIT (AP) – The family of Porter Burks, a Black man fatally shot during an early morning confrontation with Detroit police, is suing the city for $50 million, their lawyer announced Tuesday.Five unnamed officers also...
Nov 3 2022 // A California judge is allowing a lawsuit to proceed against the Los Angeles Angels over the drug-related death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs.Orange County Superior Court Judge Glenn Salter on Monday rejected the team’s...
Nov 2 2022 // A federal court jury has decided that New Jersey police did not violate the civil rights of a man who died shortly after a physical altercation during his arrest 7 1/2 years ago.After a trial, jurors in federal court in...
Nov 1 2022 // A federal judge on Monday said a lawsuit accusing Geico Corp. of overcharging more than 2 million California policyholders on car insurance early in the COVID-19 pandemic may proceed as a class action.U.S. District Judge...
Nov 1 2022 // Carlyle Aviation Partners said it sued a group of insurance companies and re-insurers claiming they failed to pay for losses stemming from the seizure of planes leased to Russian airlines following the invasion of...
Oct 31 2022 // LANSING, Mich. (AP) – A judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit filed by eight women alleging sexual harassment and assault by a former University of Michigan lecturer.Judge Thomas Cameron of the Michigan Court of Claims...
Oct 31 2022 // A federal judge has ruled against the family of a pilot killed in 2016 who sought more than $6.5 million from in a lawsuit that blamed air traffic controllers for a fatal plane crash near Reno-Tahoe International...
Oct 31 2022 // Three Maryland State Police officers have filed a proposed federal class-action lawsuit against the department, alleging widespread racial discrimination in the agency.The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in...
Oct 28 2022 // The Kroger Limited Partnership I will pay $180,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced. The EEOC had filed suit on behalf of...
Oct 28 2022 // Aircraft leasing firm Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has filed a London lawsuit against 11 insurers, including Lloyd’s of London, AIG, Chubb and Swiss Re, two months after it wrote off almost $600 million for 19...
Oct 27 2022 // The families of two people who died during last year’s Astroworld music festival have settled wrongful death lawsuits they had filed, according to attorneys.Ten people were killed and hundreds of others injured...
Oct 27 2022 // A federal judge in Louisiana is threatening to fine a Houston-based law firm $200 for each duplicate or baseless lawsuit he finds among the 1,642 that the firm has filed against insurers for alleged hurricane damages.US...