All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 11 2020 // The former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks is suing the mayor and interim police chief, saying his firing violated his constitutional rights and the city code. Meanwhile, prosecutors have asked a...
Aug 11 2020 // It was supposed to be an easy job – not one that would shut down an entire city.But a series of major goofs and errors turned an underground drilling project into a nightmarish tale where the water pipes ran dry,...
Aug 10 2020 // Arizona’s attorney general has obtained a $22.5 million judgment against a New Jersey-based vaping company along with a court order permanently barring the company from selling its products in the state.Attorney...
Aug 10 2020 // The mother of an 18-year-old University of Iowa student who froze to death in January 2019 is suing the school for negligence.Michael Belz, of Cedar Rapids, was caught outside of his residence hall on the night of Jan. 29,...
Aug 10 2020 // When insurance coverage lawsuits brought by businesses seeking coverage for COVID-related interruptions surpassed the 700 mark last month, the natural question to ask was: Is that a lot?That’s exactly the question...
Aug 10 2020 // Gov. John Bel Edwards in July signed into law changes to Louisiana’s civil litigation rules aimed at restraining the money people can win against insurance companies and businesses in car accident lawsuits.The...
Aug 10 2020 // A Kentucky teen and The Washington Post have settled a lawsuit over the newspaper’s coverage of his encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington last year.The teen’s lawyers said...
Aug 10 2020 // Clint Eastwood sued several companies that sell CBD supplements in late July, alleging that they are falsely using his name and image to push products he would never agree to endorse.Two lawsuits filed in federal court in...
Aug 10 2020 // In his first semester at Washington State University, Sam Martinez witnessed or took part in several activities that his family says were a pattern of hazing at Alpha Tau Omega (ATO), the fraternity he hoped to...
Aug 10 2020 // A lawsuit filed in federal court accuses Utah State University of unlawfully discriminating against and expelling a student with Down syndrome during her first term.Emily Arthur was in the Aggies Elevated program which...
Aug 7 2020 // A federal appeals panel has upheld the dismissal of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who died when the car she was riding in drove off a Forest Service road and into an abandoned mine shaft in the...
Aug 7 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara this week announced a settlement agreement with AbbVie Inc. to resolve a lawsuit alleging violations of the California Insurance Frauds Prevention Act involving the marketing...
Aug 7 2020 // Residents near a middle Georgia power plant are suing Georgia Power Co., alleging the plant is poisoning their well water.The suit filed Wednesday in Fulton County Superior Court alleges the electric utility has illegally...
Aug 7 2020 // A New Jersey appeals court’s decision to revive two lawsuits accusing Johnson & Johnson’s iconic Baby Powder of causing cancer may lead to the reinstatement of about 1,000 suits targeting the talc-based...
Aug 7 2020 // A fired Kansas City Public Schools secretary who was among several employees accused of falsifying attendance data in a bid to help the district regain accreditation is suing. The Kansas City Star reports that LaQuyn...
Aug 6 2020 // The family of a man who was stabbed to death in February outside of a Chicago bar is suing the bar and the man charged in the killing, claiming the slain man was targeted because he was gay and is accusing the bar of not...
Aug 6 2020 // Exxon Mobil Corp. will argue that a consumer and investor fraud lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts attorney general amounts to improper retaliation against the company over its views on climate change. The company will...
Aug 5 2020 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office has filed separate lawsuits against transportation companies Uber and Lyft for committing wage theft by misclassifying employees as independent contractors.Uber and Lyft...
Aug 5 2020 // Allianz said on Wednesday that it was fielding a request for information from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over a series of funds that suffered sharp losses amid the coronavirus-led market meltdown earlier...
Aug 4 2020 // A Black officer with the Port of Seattle police is suing over the Port’s alleged failure to provide records of an investigation into racial discrimination claims he made against superiors including the police...