All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 18 2019 // An associate producer on the CBS current affairs TV show “60 Minutes” filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging gender discrimination and retaliation by the company after she complained about inappropriate conduct by...
Dec 18 2019 // Landmark U.S. legal action was filed last Monday (Dec. 9) accusing several major hotel groups of profiting from sex trafficking on behalf of 13 women who claimed they were sold for sex in hotel rooms.Twelve hotel chains...
Dec 17 2019 // A tentative $25 million settlement revealed last Wednesday to end nearly every sexual misconduct lawsuit brought against Harvey Weinstein and his former film studio’s board has been praised by a plaintiff and some...
Dec 17 2019 // A lawsuit filed by a Dartmouth College student against the school who was seriously injured during baseball practice has been settled, the college said Monday.Last year, Colton French said in federal court documents that...
Dec 17 2019 // The state Supreme Court has refused a request by Delaware’s attorney general to review a judge’s decision dismissing Walgreens as a defendant in Delaware’s lawsuit against the drug industry over the...
Dec 17 2019 // Two environmental groups are suing a steelmaker for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act at its northwestern Indiana facility more than 100 times in the past five years, including an August spill that killed more than...
Dec 16 2019 // Alphabet Inc. is pursuing mediation to settle investor litigation alleging the company let senior leaders at Google get away with sexual harassment and misconduct for years.Company directors this year set up a special...
Dec 13 2019 // Walt Disney Co. failed to persuade a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by female employees who allege the company discriminates by paying male workers better. A state judge in Los Angeles found that the 10 current and former...
Dec 13 2019 // Two businesses whose Northwest Portland, Ore. storefronts were destroyed by a 2016 gas explosion have filed new lawsuits against the company that was digging at the time.The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Portland Bagelworks...
Dec 12 2019 // A Utah woman sued Mississippi’s Fair Commission for negligence and emotional anguish, saying she went airborne on a 40-foot (12-meter) super slide and injured her back.Lindsay Casperson of Kaysville, Utah, filed the...
Dec 12 2019 // A Saranac, Michigan egg producer will pay $93,000 and provide other relief to settle a federal disability harassment and retaliation lawsuit, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).The EEOC...
Dec 12 2019 // Attorneys for Johnson & Johnson have appealed an Oklahoma judge’s order for the company to pay $465 million to address the state’s opioid crisis.The company argues in an appeal filed on Dec. 9 that the...
Dec 11 2019 // A new wave of lawsuits against BP is hitting the federal courts nearly a decade after the Gulf oil spill.The new litigation is the result of a court ruling that blocks thousands of people from a medical settlement...
Dec 11 2019 // A man wounded in a shooting at a San Diego, Calif.-area synagogue is suing the house of worship, alleging Chabad of Poway didn’t use federal funds meant to hire security to protect worshipers, according to a...
Dec 10 2019 // The University of Oklahoma is asking to be dismissed from a sexual assault lawsuit against a former OU vice president.The motion filed Tuesday says the university is immune from the claims by Levi Hilliard that allege...
Dec 10 2019 // Columbus, Ohio-based national shoe retailer, DSW Shoe Warehouse Inc., will pay $40,000 and furnish equitable relief throughout the stores in its Midwest Great Lakes Region (including Michigan and Ohio) to resolve a race...
Dec 9 2019 // A lawsuit filed by the family of a girl who suffered a brain injury after she was shocked by an electrified handrail at a resort near the nation’s capital has been resolved.The Washington Post reports that court...
Dec 9 2019 // A federal judge has approved a historic settlement agreement between Taiwan-based plastics manufacturer Formosa and an environmental activist represented by indigent legal services nonprofit Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid.TRLA...
Dec 9 2019 // The mother of a middle schooler is suing the district, saying her wheelchair-bound son fell and fractured his thigh bones and school staff didn’t tell her until three days later.The Oregonian/OregonLive reports...
Dec 6 2019 // A woman who says she was kicked out of a North Carolina nursing school a month before graduation in retaliation for accusing a supervisor of sexual harassment is suing in a case supported by the Time’s Up movement...