All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Aug 4 2020 // A class-action lawsuit seeks $150 million in refunds from ComEd for customer rate increases and other benefits the utility received from Illinois as part of an alleged bribery scheme.The lawsuit was filed this week in Cook...
Aug 3 2020 // In his first semester at Washington State University, Sam Martinez witnessed or took part in several activities that his family says was a pattern of hazing at Alpha Tau Omega (ATO), the fraternity he hoped to join.Pledges...
Aug 3 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 3 2020 // Chinese artificial intelligence company Shanghai Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology Co. Ltd,. also known as Xiao-i, has filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc, alleging it has infringed on its patents.The company is calling...
Aug 3 2020 // The NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky have filed a lawsuit alleging use of force and intimidation by Louisville police against protesters.The lawsuit alleges use of tear gas, pepper balls and batons...