All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 7 2020 // Two agribusinesses in Washington state will distribute $325,000 among 105 Thai farm workers to settle a federal national origin and race discrimination lawsuit.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said the...
Sep 7 2020 // A former student at a high school in Washington state who survived a school shooting is suing the district for what she claims was a preventable attack.The mass shooting killed four students and the gunman in 2014. Carmen...
Sep 7 2020 // UCLA filed a lawsuit against Under Armour in late August in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for breach of contract, seeking damages in excess of $200 million.Under Armour announced in late June that it was ending its...
Sep 4 2020 // The mother of an unarmed Wyoming man killed by a sheriff’s deputy after a traffic stop has filed a lawsuit alleging excessive use of force and failures in hiring and training the deputy.Debra Hinkel filed suit...
Sep 3 2020 // Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) said on Thursday a class action lawsuit had been filed over commissions paid to its former subsidiary and advice given by it on financial products including insurance.The lawsuit was...
Sep 2 2020 // More than four months after Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sought to hold China and the Chinese Communist Party accountable for the COVID-19 pandemic, the lawsuit remains stalled in federal court.Neither the...
Sep 2 2020 // Family members of two of the deceased Odessa, Texas, mass shooting victims are suing the person who supplied the AR-style firearm to the mass shooter and the gun parts manufacturer for over $1 million in damages.The...
Sep 2 2020 // Seattle scoffed at the $650 million Bayer AG agreed to pay to settle class-action claims by about 2,500 cities, counties and ports over pollution from polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB, saying it plans to opt out of the...
Sep 2 2020 // A three-year-long U.S. court battle over a cryptocurrency fundraiser, one of the largest initial coin offerings ever, has ended with a Swiss foundation paying $25 million to participants who lost money and their...
Sep 2 2020 // A former student from Aloha High School is suing the Beaverton School District after a teacher was convicted of sending her sexually explicit photos and videos of himself.The suit, which asks for more than $2 million in...
Sep 2 2020 // A national subprime auto lender made unfair and deceptive loans to thousands of Massachusetts residents, provided investors with false or misleading information regarding auto securities, and engaged in unfair debt...
Sep 2 2020 // Municipalities, their insurers and risk pools should be heeding the current public re-examination of police and prosecutorial actions taking place across the country, according to an insurance policyholder attorney who...
Sep 2 2020 // McDonald’s Corp. is the subject of a lawsuit by more than 50 Black former franchisees in the U.S. who say they were driven out of business after being pushed by the company to set up shop in crime-ridden areas and...
Sep 1 2020 // A northern Indiana woman has filed a lawsuit against the distributor of a recalled hand sanitizer over the presence of toxic methanol, alleging her children had severe side effects.The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in...
Aug 31 2020 // An out-of-court settlement has been reached in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a man who said he suffered a serious brain injury during an arrest by an Otter Tail County, Minnesota, sheriff’s deputy.The...
Aug 31 2020 // The family of a Black man who died in Tacoma, Wash. police custody announced they plan to sue the police department for $30 million for his death.Seattle lawyer James Bible, who represents Manuel Ellis’ family in the...
Aug 31 2020 // A federal judge on Friday rejected the New York Times’ bid to dismiss Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit over a 2017 editorial she said falsely linked her to a mass shooting.U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in...
Aug 28 2020 // UCLA filed a lawsuit against Under Armour this week in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for breach of contract, seeking damages in excess of $200 million..Under Armour announced in late June that it was ending its deal...
Aug 28 2020 // A group of Black U.S. farmers filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday, seeking to force Bayer AG to either stop selling its widely used weedkiller Roundup or roll out new product warnings.The National Black Farmers...
Aug 27 2020 // Apple Inc. can’t dodge a lawsuit in which it’s accused of canceling a contract with a janitorial service because the owner is a woman.In a tentative ruling last week in California state court in San Jose, Judge...