All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2024 // Apple has been hit with a flurry of new consumer lawsuits accusing the iPhone maker of monopolizing the smartphone market, piggybacking on a sweeping antitrust case lodged by the U.S. Justice Department and 15 states last...
Mar 26 2024 // A man who says he was sexually abused as a boy by a priest in New Mexico in the 1960s sued the church and diocese this week, the latest case to surface in the state as the Roman Catholic Church wrestles with the global...
Mar 22 2024 // Texas, Louisiana and more than a dozen other US states challenged the Biden administration’s suspension of new licenses to export natural gas via ocean-going tankers.A lawsuit filed against President Joe Biden and...
Mar 22 2024 // The U.S. government’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple draws on the watershed 1998 case that broke Microsoft’s stranglehold on desktop software, but that may prove to be an imperfect blueprint for addressing...
Mar 22 2024 // Texas, Louisiana and more than a dozen other US states challenged the Biden administration’s suspension of new licenses to export natural gas via ocean-going tankers.A lawsuit filed against President Joe Biden and...
Mar 21 2024 // Efforts to rein in third-party litigation financing are on their way to becoming law in Indiana and West Virginia, a scorecard that is less than what business and insurance interests had hoped for this spring.In Indiana,...
Mar 21 2024 // The US Justice Department and 16 attorneys general sued Apple Inc., accusing the iPhone maker of violating antitrust laws by blocking rivals from accessing hardware and software features on its popular devices.The suit,...
Mar 21 2024 // An Ohio will pay $50,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced.Cedar Fair, L.P., doing business as Cedar Point, and Magnum...
Mar 21 2024 // CHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago sued Glock Inc. on Tuesday, alleging the handgun manufacturer is facilitating the proliferation of illegal machine guns that can fire as many as 1,200 rounds per minute on the streets...
Mar 20 2024 // More passengers who were aboard an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 jet when part of its fuselage blew out in January are suing — including one who says his life was saved by a seat belt.The latest lawsuit, representing seven...
Mar 20 2024 // A New York state judge has allowed a case seeking to hold social media companies liable in the tragic mass killing at a Buffalo supermarket in 2022 to go forward on grounds of product liability.Erie County Supreme Court...
Mar 19 2024 // A bill that would end direct-action lawsuits against trucking insurers is rolling toward the governor’s desk after it was approved by the full House of Representatives on Monday.Senate Bill 426, heralded as a way to...
Mar 19 2024 // Ferrari NV was accused in a US lawsuit of failing to fix a “dangerous safety defect” with the brakes in some of its luxury sports cars despite issuing multiple recalls.The recalls were no more than “an...
Mar 19 2024 // The National Association of Realtors agreed to settle litigation over commission rules for US real estate agents, clearing the way for possible changes in how Americans buy and sell homes.For homeowners and buyers, the...
Mar 18 2024 // Apple Inc. lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that its AirTag devices help stalkers track their victims.US District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled Friday that three plaintiffs in the class-action suit...
Mar 18 2024 // State Farm Insurance brought forth a subrogation lawsuit against Norfolk Southern over damages to a pair of East Palestine, Ohio homes allegedly caused by the railroad company’s February 2023 train derailment.State...
Mar 15 2024 // A 19-year-old Michigan man who lost his right eye after being shot with a firearm made from a ghost gun kit filed a lawsuit against his former best friend who accidentally shot him and the Pennsylvania company that sold...
Mar 15 2024 // Do motorist-assistance systems like GM’s OnStar feed data to auto insurers, resulting in higher premiums for some drivers?A south Florida man says indeed, they do, and has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit...
Mar 15 2024 // A major environmental group has sued to challenge new rules issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requiring public companies to report climate-related risks, arguing they do not go far enough to protect...
Mar 14 2024 // Eggland’s Best, one of the largest U.S. egg producers, has been sued for falsely claiming that its eggs contain less saturated fat than other eggs.The proposed class action filed on Tuesday in federal court in...