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Musk Beats Suit Over Promoting Dogecoin ‘Pyramid Scheme’

Aug 30 2024 // Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming they pumped up the price of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin into a $258 billion “pyramid scheme.”Investors who lost tens of thousands of dollars...

Court Revives Sarah Palin’s Libel Lawsuit Against New York Times

Aug 30 2024 // A federal appeals court revived Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times on Wednesday, citing errors by a lower court judge, particularly his decision to dismiss the lawsuit while a jury was...

GM Must Face Big Class Action Over Faulty Transmissions

Aug 30 2024 // General Motors was ordered by a federal appeals court to face a class action claiming it violated laws of 26 U.S. states by knowingly selling several hundred thousand cars, trucks and SUVs with faulty transmissions.The 6th...

Woman Shot at Chicago White Sox Game Sues Team and Stadium Authority

Aug 29 2024 // CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who was shot in the leg during a White Sox game last year is suing the team and the Illinois agency that owns Guaranteed Rate Field.The woman was in the left-field bleachers in Section 161 when she...

Texas Officials Sued Over Anti-ESG Law Targeting Wall Street

Aug 29 2024 // The American Sustainable Business Council sued Texas officials in an effort to block a law that restricts state investments with certain financial firms because of their energy policies.The lawsuit filed Thursday in...

Disability Rights Group Sues to Stop Mask Ban in Suburban New York County

Aug 29 2024 // A disability rights organization is challenging a suburban New York ban on wearing masks in public except for health and religious reasons, arguing it is unconstitutional and discriminates against people with...

Lyft is a Motor Carrier and State Farm Can Be Sued Directly, Georgia Court Says

Aug 28 2024 // Georgia lawmakers this year put an end to direct-action lawsuits against trucking companies’ insurers, but that did not come soon enough to bar litigation brought by people involved in accidents with ride-sharing...

TikTok Must Face Lawsuit Over 10-Year-Old Girl’s Death, Appeals Court Rules

Aug 28 2024 // A U.S. appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by the mother of a 10-year-old girl who died after taking part in a viral “blackout challenge” in which users of the social media platform were dared to...

Delaware Top Court Will Hear Drugmakers’ Appeal to End Zantac Lawsuits

Aug 28 2024 // Delaware’s highest court said on Tuesday it will hear an appeal by GSK and other drugmakers seeking to end more than 70,000 lawsuits claiming discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer.GSK, Pfizer, Sanofi and...

The Murdaugh Drama in SC Continues: Store That Sold Beer Now Suing its Insurers

Aug 27 2024 // The saga of the Murdaugh family in South Carolina continues, now with a convenience store company suing its liability insurers for failing to defend it against a second lawsuit stemming from the sale of beer to an underage...

Update: EU Faces 2 Lawsuits Over Emissions Rules, ‘Green’ Label for Planes

Aug 27 2024 // Environmental campaigners have taken the European Commission to court, seeking to force Brussels to upgrade its emissions rules for 2030 and, in a second case, scrap rules that label some planes as climate-friendly...

Fanatics Refiles Suit Against Cardinals’ Marvin Harrison Jr., Adds Father

Aug 27 2024 // Apparel manufacturer Fanatics has refiled its lawsuit against Arizona Cardinals rookie receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., adding his father, former NFL star Marvin Harrison Sr., and fraud allegations in addition to breach of...

Police Officer’s Family Sues Girlfriend Accused of His Death and Bars That Served Her

Aug 27 2024 // Karen Read, whose recent high-profile trial for the death of a Boston police officer she was dating ended in a mistrial, is now facing a wrongful death suit brought by the late officer’s family that alleges she...

North Carolina Supreme Court Says Speedway Can Sue Over COVID Closure

Aug 27 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina racetrack, shuttered briefly for defying state gathering limits during the pandemic, can sue the top health regulator on allegations that Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration...

Judge Narrows Star Russian Soprano’s Lawsuit Against Met Opera

Aug 27 2024 // Anna Netrebko’s lawsuit against the Metropolitan Opera was narrowed to gender discrimination claims by a federal judge, who agreed to dismiss the star soprano’s allegations of defamation, breach of contract and...

Amazon Must Face D.C.’s Antitrust Lawsuit, Appeals Court Rules

Aug 26 2024 // An appeals court in Washington, D.C. revived the district’s lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc on Thursday, saying it plausibly claimed the online retailer’s pricing policies illegally stifle competition.The...

Former Citigroup Exec Suing Bank Was Fired for Performance, Company Says

Aug 26 2024 // Citigroup alleges that a former managing director suing the bank was fired for performance reasons, rather than for what she said were attempts by the bank to give regulators false information.On Thursday, the bank...

Jury Sides With Teacher in Suit Against District Over Jan. 6 Rally

Aug 26 2024 // A Pennsylvania school district violated a teacher’s constitutional rights by falsely suggesting he took part in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, a federal jury has concluded.After an 11-day trial, jurors found...

Acquitted Yale Student Sues Women’s Groups for Calling Him a Rapist

Aug 23 2024 // An expelled Yale University student who was acquitted of sex assault charges in 2018 is now suing 15 women’s advocacy groups and an attorney for defamation after being called a “rapist” in a court brief...

Authors’ Class Action Targets AI Company Anthropic for Copyright Infringement

Aug 23 2024 // Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court by three authors who say it misused their books and hundreds of thousands of others to train its AI-powered...