All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 12 2020 // The Oakland City Council has agreed to pay $399,000 to settle the last lawsuit over a 2016 fire at an illegally converted warehouse dubbed the Ghost Ship that killed 36 people.The city doesn’t acknowledge any...
Nov 12 2020 // The Los Angeles Times and Tribune Publishing have agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit that said minority journalists and women were paid less than white reporters.Nearly 240 current and former reporters and...
Nov 12 2020 // Parents who’ve lost their jobs during the pandemic are driving a surge of litigation, alleging their employers discriminated against them for taking care of their kids when schools closed.Since March, working parents...
Nov 10 2020 // Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI) and ManpowerGroup US Inc. (Manpower) have agreed to settle a federal lawsuit charging the companies with sexual harassment and retaliation against a worker at a JCI plant in Norman, Oklahoma.The...
Nov 10 2020 // Sotheby’s was sued on Friday by New York’s attorney general, who accused the auction house of defrauding the state by helping an important client avoid millions of dollars of sales taxes on art he...
Nov 10 2020 // A court-appointed mediator on Monday said Bayer AG has made “substantial progress” toward resolving tens of thousands of remaining claims that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer.The mediator Kenneth Feinberg...
Nov 9 2020 // A St. Louis, Mo., couple facing felony charges for waving guns at racial injustice protesters who marched near their home allege in a lawsuit that a news photographer trespassed to capture an image of the...
Nov 9 2020 // A 5.0 billion pound ($6.6 billion) English lawsuit against Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP has been struck out, in a blow to a 200,000-strong Brazilian claimant group seeking damages after a devastating dam failure in...
Nov 9 2020 // Alabama has reached a $60 million settlement with Terminix International for systematically overcharging customers for termite services and failing to honor service contracts, Attorney General Steve Marshall announced...
Nov 6 2020 // Northwest Wireless Enterprises LLC, an exclusive T-Mobile retailer, will pay $175,000 to a former employee to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit, federal officials say.According a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal...
Nov 6 2020 // Apple Inc has been ordered to face a proposed class-action lawsuit by shareholders who accused Chief Executive Tim Cook of concealing falling demand for iPhones in China, resulting in billions of dollars of investor...
Nov 6 2020 // An assistant chief of police in Kauai settled a lawsuit against his department and Kauai County for $1.84 million.Mark Begley sued the county and the Kauai Police Department in 2016, alleging he was harassed and retaliated...
Nov 5 2020 // Federal officials in San Antonio say a pair of construction-related companies have agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged...
Nov 4 2020 // Women suing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for gender discrimination are going after any internal documents with words like “babe,” “bimbo” or worse that they say would show bias by executives who...
Nov 4 2020 // Civil rights groups have reached a settlement with a Georgia city to end policies that they said illegally restricted access to utility services and disproportionately affected Black and Latino residents.The lawsuit filed...
Nov 3 2020 // California Insurance Co. has filed an “Anti-SLAPP” motion the company says is to protect its First Amendment rights in its ongoing legal battle with the California Department of Insurance and Insurance...
Nov 3 2020 // Bayer AG failed to settle outstanding U.S. Roundup lawsuits by Monday, the deadline set by a judge who has said he’ll resume federal trials over claims the weedkiller caused consumers’ cancer.Ahead of its...
Nov 3 2020 // A federal judge dismissed New York warehouse workers’ lawsuit against Amazon, ruling that their allegations about the company’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic should have been brought to the Occupational...
Nov 3 2020 // A Chicago-area sports fashion chain will pay $420,000 to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit, federal officials say.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said City Sports has more...
Nov 2 2020 // A man who was arrested and charged with murder a year ago in a fatal shooting near Greenville, Texas, before being cleared is suing the county sheriff’s office, sheriff and law enforcement officials for more than $3...