All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 1 2021 // A school board in Virginia has agreed to pay $1.3 million in legal costs to the American Civil Liberties Union after the nonprofit spent six years representing a student who sued over the board’s transgender bathroom...
Sep 1 2021 // Attorneys general from 20 states sued President Joe Biden’s administration Monday seeking to halt directives that extend federal sex discrimination protections to LGBTQ people, ranging from transgender girls...
Sep 1 2021 // Federal officials say a pair of Texas-based industrial equipment and services companies refused to hire worker because of medical treatment for anxiety and opioid addiction. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Aug 31 2021 // A U.S. appeals court said the trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff’s firm can pursue a $343.1 million clawback lawsuit against Citigroup Inc., a decision that could help the late swindler’s customers recover...
Aug 31 2021 // Production on the new “Mission: Impossible” movie was shut down seven times due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday that accuses the film’s insurance company of failing to...
Aug 31 2021 // South Carolina’s highest court will hear two challenges to the state’s refusal to let school districts require masks for students and teachers this week.The state Supreme Court has set aside two hours to hear...
Aug 31 2021 // A couple whose young dog was shot by a police officer in a northern Colorado city has filed a lawsuit accusing the officer’s supervisors of covering up what happened and claiming that the city has fostered a culture...
Aug 31 2021 // The families of children who were injured on the Tilt-A-Whirl at the Kitsap County Fair in Washington in 2018 are suing the owner of the amusement company that operated the ride at the fair’s carnival and its...
Aug 30 2021 // The legal tussle around special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) intensified on Friday as a group of U.S. law firms hit out against lawsuits last week that called for blank-check firms to be regulated as investment...
Aug 27 2021 // A 30-year-old man who appeared nude at 4 months old in 1991 on the cover of Nirvana’s “Nevermind”album is suing the band and others, alleging the image is child pornography they have profited from.The...
Aug 27 2021 // As a prominent reporter and anchor at one of Iowa’s biggest local television stations, Sonya Heitshusen was known for doggedly investigating injustices and holding the powerful accountable.A year after WHO-TV in Des...
Aug 26 2021 // A federal jury has denied a damage award to the family of a Livingston, Mont., man who was shot and killed by police in January 2016.The estate of Sean Patrick O’Brien filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City...
Aug 25 2021 // The parents of two teenage boys filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging their sons were sexually assaulted in a hazing tradition by older players on their suburban Chicago, Ill., high school football team, and that three...
Aug 24 2021 // An Iowa man is suing an eastern Nebraska county, its sheriff and several deputies, saying their lack of training led one of the deputies to shoot him in the eye with a pepper ball during a protest last year.Adam Keup, 24,...
Aug 23 2021 // ISMAILIA, Egypt – The giant container ship Ever Given, which blocked the Suez canal for six days in March, crossed the waterway on Friday for the first time since it left Egypt after the incident.The ship, en route from...
Aug 20 2021 // Yellowstone National Park rangers and Wyoming sheriff’s deputies seeking a murder suspect held a vacationing family at gunpoint for an hour without adequate cause, a lawsuit claims.Brett and Genalyn Hemry, of...
Aug 19 2021 // An Alaska school district agreed to pay $3.8 million to two children abused by a former principal who said school leaders had been “well aware of my problems with young girls” for years, news outlets...
Aug 19 2021 // A federal judge has tossed most of the civil claims brought in a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of an Arizona rancher who served as spokesperson for the armed takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife...
Aug 19 2021 // A New Jersey woman who killed her abusive ex-fiance can proceed with a lawsuit that claims her rights as a domestic violence victim were violated when a county prosecutor publicly identified her, an appeals court ruled...
Aug 19 2021 // Employees of the Massachusetts veterans’ home at the center of a devastating COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020 have sued several members of the facility’s former leadership team, alleging they were forced...