All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 11 2021 // A civil lawsuit between Montana residents and an oil company that dragged on for more than a decade has ended quietly after a judge dismissed the case as a result of a settlement agreement.District Court Judge Katherine...
Jun 10 2021 // Wine grape growers in Texas and surrounding states have filed a lawsuit against drug maker Bayer-Monsanto and chemical giant BASF for the damage their cotton herbicide has caused to vineyards.Attorneys for the grape...
Jun 10 2021 // A failed oil trader in Singapore that owes creditors more than $3.5 billion is suing Deloitte & Touche LLP, alleging the auditing firm failed to detect “serious irregularities” in its financial statements...
Jun 10 2021 // New York’s attorney general could sue gun manufacturers under certain scenarios under a bill that passed the state Senate and Assembly on Tuesday as lawmakers continued wrapping up this year’s legislative...
Jun 10 2021 // A federal judge in northern Illinois has dismissed a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by African-American McDonald’s franchisees accusing McDonald’s of steering them to underperforming stores.U.S District...
Jun 9 2021 // More lawsuits have been filed in the capsizing of an offshore oil service vessel in a Gulf of Mexico storm provide harrowing descriptions of what survivors endured in the accident that killed 13 shipmates.Bryan Mires and...
Jun 9 2021 // Jerry Falwell Jr. is asking a court in Virginia to dismiss a lawsuit Liberty University filed over his headline-grabbing departure last year as leader of the evangelical school his father founded.Falwell claims in a court...
Jun 9 2021 // The parents of an 8-year-old girl who was shot and killed near the site where Rayshard Brooks had been shot several weeks earlier filed a lawsuit Monday against the city of Atlanta and others.Secoriea Turner was slain on...
Jun 8 2021 // A company based in the Cincinnati, Ohio-area will pay $22,500 to settle a federal sexual harassment and retaliation suit.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had charged in its lawsuit Total Maintenance...
Jun 7 2021 // A man who was on a lift boat that capsized eight miles (about 13 kilometers) off the Louisiana coast in April was taking a nap when the boat flipped over, waking him up as his entire room flipped over on its side,...
Jun 7 2021 // A woman who was impaled by a beach umbrella in Maryland three years ago has sued the town and umbrella business, claiming their negligence resulted in serious injuries.Jill Mendygral, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, was...
Jun 7 2021 // Kentucky’s attorney general last week sued CVS Health, accusing its pharmacy chain of flooding the state with prescription opioids that contributed to the state’s addiction woes.Attorney General Daniel Cameron...
Jun 7 2021 // Fifteen military families have filed a lawsuit against a private company that manages housing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington over living conditions they say caused property damage and health problems.The 51...
Jun 4 2021 // A former North Carolina deputy is suing a sheriff over his requirement for employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine.Christopher Neve, the former Durham County deputy, is asking a court to force Sheriff Clarence Birkhead to...
Jun 4 2021 // A lawsuit against the Utah Jazz by a fan who was banned for life from the team’s arena over what were called racial taunts directed at point guard Russell Westbrook was dismissed by a judge, according to court...
Jun 4 2021 // Parents of a Twin Falls middle school student have filed a tort claim against the school district, contending that the girl was injured after a teacher instructed his students to push her down concrete stairs as part of a...
Jun 4 2021 // Bristol Myers Squibb Co. was sued for $6.4 billion on Thursday for allegedly delaying its Breyanzi cancer drug to avoid payments to shareholders of the former Celgene Corp., which the drugmaker bought in 2019.According to...
Jun 4 2021 // DWS Group and Assicurazioni Generali SpA are among suitors that submitted initial bids this week for the asset management arm of NN Group NV, people familiar with the matter said.The unit, known as NN Investment Partners,...
Jun 4 2021 // A man hit in the face with a bean bag that left him blind in one eye during a racial injustice protest in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, a year ago has sued the sheriff’s deputy who shot him.Attorneys for John Sanders,...
Jun 3 2021 // New York City and 21 of New York’s counties on Tuesday announced a lawsuit against consulting firm McKinsey & Company, accusing the company of contributing to the opioid crisis by helping create strategies to...