All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 2 2022 // The family of a Delaware man who was fatally shot by local police two years ago while he was armed with a knife has sued the city and officers that fired at him, seeking monetary damages.The wrongful death lawsuit, filed...
Feb 2 2022 // With the effects of climate change becoming more palpable, a rise in climate litigation cases could have significant financial and reputational repercussions for corporates. Thomas Englerth, associate director at S&P...
Feb 2 2022 // TOKYO (AP) – Toyota has settled a lawsuit that blamed overwork and harassment for the suicide of one of its employees.Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda has apologized to the family, the Japanese automaker said...
Feb 2 2022 // Students of a former University of Michigan lecturer recounted stories of alleged sexual assault, psychological torture and university negligence Monday before filing a lawsuit against the professor and the school.On a...
Feb 2 2022 // The recently fired head coach of the Miami Dolphins has filed a scathing lawsuit accusing the National Football League of past and present unfair discrimination against Black coaches, players, owners, managers and...
Feb 1 2022 // A Massachusetts man severely injured in a 2019 crash in New Hampshire that killed seven members of his motorcycle club has filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles for allegedly failing to...
Feb 1 2022 // Thirteen U.S. states and two Latin America and Caribbean nations on Monday threw their support behind a lawsuit from Mexico that accuses several major U.S. gun makers of facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug...
Feb 1 2022 // Twitter has taken legal action against a rule, coming into force in Germany from Tuesday, that obliges social media firms to block or delete criminal content quickly and report particularly serious criminal offenses to the...
Jan 31 2022 // Verona Area School District, which serves Verona and parts of Fitchburg and Madison, Wisconsin, violated federal law when it paid female special education teachers and a school psychologist lower wages than male employees...
Jan 31 2022 // The Alaska Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by 16 young Alaskans who claimed long-term effects of climate change will devastate Alaska and interfere with their individual constitutional rights.The...
Jan 31 2022 // A Philadelphia man freed after 37 years in prison in a case tainted by perjured testimony accused the city of “outrageous police misconduct” in a lawsuit filed Thursday, the same day his 1984 murder case was...
Jan 31 2022 // A former Sedgwick County, Kansas employee alleges in a lawsuit that his coworkers called him the “colored guy” and sang spirituals from the slavery era while he worked as a bridge crewman.David Partridge, who...
Jan 28 2022 // A new lawsuit alleging negligence by school officials and a Michigan school shooting suspect’s parents was filed Thursday over the attack at Oxford High School that killed four students and wounded six other students...
Jan 28 2022 // A federal jury on Thursday awarded $110 million to two U.S. Army veterans who said combat earplugs sold by 3M Co to the military caused them to suffer hearing damage, the largest verdict yet to result from hundreds of...
Jan 28 2022 // A gun rights group and a gun owner have filed a lawsuit against a California city for a newly passed ordinance requiring citizens to obtain firearm liability insurance and pay an annual fee.The National Association for Gun...
Jan 28 2022 // Lawyers for an associate athletic director who filed a $50 million federal racketeering lawsuit against Louisiana State University say she has been fired in retaliation and asked the court Wednesday to add that claim to...
Jan 27 2022 // Los Angeles County faces two lawsuits connected to last year’s shootings at a fire station that killed a firefighter and wounded a captain in attack investigators said stemmed from a longstanding job-related...
Jan 27 2022 // A property insurer must give up its underwriting manuals in a claims dispute, a Florida appeals court said Wednesday.In People’s Trust Insurance Co. vs. Theodore Foster, the 1st District Court of Appeals in...
Jan 26 2022 // A Massachusetts man seriously injured in a crash while a passenger in an Uber car is suing Uber and the driver for $63 million in damages.The suit accuses Uber of negligence in the hiring of the driver, who the complaint...
Jan 26 2022 // A Tennessee doctor who pleaded guilty to running a pill mill has now filed suit against his property insurance carrier for failing to pay after a suspicious fire destroyed his clinic.Dr. David Bruce Coffey of Oneida, in...