All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 2 2020 // A lawsuit filed by the state of Rhode Island against 21 fossil fuel companies seeking damages for the impacts of climate change will be allowed to proceed in state court, a federal appeals court has ruled.The decision...
Nov 2 2020 // A Eugene Weekly reporter who was hit with a tear gas canister while he filmed police breaking up a protest in late May in Oregon has settled a lawsuit against the city of Eugene.Henry Houston said he and the Civil...
Nov 2 2020 // SYDNEY — One of Australia’s largest pension funds on Monday agreed to settle a landmark climate risk litigation filed by a 25-year-old member who alleged it was failing to protect his retirement savings against...
Nov 2 2020 // The family of a woman who lived at a Washington facility filed a lawsuit alleging neglect that caused her death following bunion surgery.The lawsuit says 33-year-old JoHanna Pratt died from a pulmonary embolism after the...
Nov 2 2020 // A Black man who said he was prohibited from buying gas by a white gas station attendant in Oregon has filed a $350,000 racial discrimination lawsuit against the station.Dominique DeWeese said in the lawsuit that he asked...
Nov 2 2020 // The law firm CaseyGerry has filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court on behalf of the parents of Le’Sharia Bre’Aun Steele, a 28-year old flight attendant from Alabama who died in San Diego, Calif. after...
Nov 2 2020 // Two Oregon wine grape growers have failed to convince a state judge their grapes would be marred by odors from a neighboring marijuana operation.Yamhill County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Easterday ruled that Smera...
Nov 2 2020 // The family of an armed man shot and killed by security guards in a suburban Las Vegas casino-resort last year is suing.The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the son of 53-year-old Shannon Howell filed a wrongful death...
Nov 2 2020 // A judge in Durham County, N.C., has handed down what may be the nation’s first dispositive ruling in favor of policyholders in a COVID-19 business-interruption lawsuit.Superior Court Judge Orlando F. Hudson Jr. ruled...
Oct 30 2020 // The former president and chancellor of Liberty University (LU), Jerry Falwell Jr., is suing the school for reputational damage following his August resignation, according to a complaint filed in the Commonwealth of...
Oct 30 2020 // Lloyd’s of London lost its initial bid to squelch a coronavirus business interruption lawsuit brought by a Philadelphia bar and restaurant.Judge Gary S. Glazer of the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia turned...
Oct 30 2020 // McDonald’s Corp. was hit on Thursday with a potentially multi-billion-dollar lawsuit by Black franchise owners who accused the fast-food giant of racial discrimination for steering them to underperforming stores.The...
Oct 30 2020 // The Douglas School District in Box Elder, S.D., will pay a former district employee $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed in February 2019, representatives from both sides said on Oct. 27.Patrick Ealy said he was wrongly...
Oct 30 2020 // An Illinois-based staffing agency will pay $25,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging it refused to hire qualified females as receiving associates.LTI Services LLC in Burbank, Ill., also has agreed to other conditions to...
Oct 29 2020 // After years of warnings that the Florida property insurance market was heading towards an availability crisis, many in the industry say the moment of reckoning has arrived. They blame unchecked claims litigation from...
Oct 28 2020 // The parents of a man killed by police in Louisiana is suing the Lafayette Police Department, saying their son did not have a knife when he was killed.Trayford Pellerin, 31, was killed Aug. 21 as he walked away from a...
Oct 28 2020 // Sam Gordon’s staggering football skills made her famous at age 9. But they didn’t make her fully welcome on the field.As the only girl in a tackle football league in Utah, she heard parents from opposing teams...
Oct 28 2020 // Two civil rights organizations are suing New York City on behalf of protesters who say they were assaulted and abused by police officers because they expressed anti-police views during nightly demonstrations in the spring...
Oct 28 2020 // The city of Baltimore has agreed to pay workers compensation benefits to the family of a police detective who was fatally shot in the head a day before he was scheduled to testify before a grand jury investigating police...
Oct 27 2020 // Two Oregon wine grape growers have failed to convince a state judge their grapes would be marred by odors from a neighboring marijuana operation.Yamhill County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Easterday ruled that Smera...