All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 27 2019 // A federal lawsuit says nearly 50 fires in Colorado were ignited by a railroad company in the weeks leading up to a major wildfire.The Durango Herald reported Tuesday that The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad...
Sep 26 2019 // The Cleveland judge overseeing more than 2,000 federal lawsuits over alleged opioid abuses refused to disqualify himself from a bellwether trial set to start next month, rejecting a request by drug distributors and...
Sep 26 2019 // A federal judge is closing a lawsuit that Duke University is settling over claims that it and nearby University of North Carolina conspired to hold down salaries of thousands of medical workers by not hiring staff away...
Sep 24 2019 // Belle Tire Distributors Inc., a tire, wheels and auto service company in Michigan, has agreed to pay $55,000 and furnish other relief to settle a racial harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Sep 24 2019 // German insurer Allianz, Nippon Life and MS&AD Insurance are vying with rivals to buy the Singapore and Vietnam businesses of Britain’s Aviva in a deal likely to be worth up to $2.5 billion, sources...
Sep 23 2019 // The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled that a lawsuit against opioid makers can move forward, overturning a lower court that had dismissed the claims.At issue is whether Tennessee’s Drug Dealer Liability Act...
Sep 23 2019 // Two vaping companies have agreed not to promote their products to minors under a settlement with Los Angeles prosecutors.The city attorney’s office announced a lawsuit settlement Friday with NEwhere Inc. and VapeCo...
Sep 23 2019 // Newark – part of it, anyway – stinks.Residents of New Jersey’s largest city have been complaining about the stench of carcasses emanating from Darling Ingredients Inc.’s rendering plant, which turns...
Sep 23 2019 // Willie Nelson has famously said a country song is “three chords and the truth.”It might not be so simple anymore. A flood of lawsuits is threatening to upend that concept, making trivial similarities in songs...
Sep 20 2019 // A school district in Michigan will pay $107,000 do settle a federal retaliation lawsuit.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says the Waterford Public School System in Waterford, Michigan, will...
Sep 20 2019 // A California transgender man can go ahead with a discrimination lawsuit against a Catholic hospital that canceled his hysterectomy, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.The decision by the 1st District Court of Appeal in San...
Sep 20 2019 // Chuck Yeager, the retired U.S. Air Force pilot who broke the sound barrier, has sued Airbus SE, accusing the aerospace company of using his name and likeness without permission to promote a new high-speed helicopter.In a...
Sep 19 2019 // Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen asked a federal judge to dismiss Roy Moore’s defamation lawsuit over a television segment that lampooned Moore in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations.Lawyers for Baron Cohen, Showtime...
Sep 18 2019 // North Carolina’s attorney general says he’s pursuing accountability from the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma with a pending lawsuit over their role in the country’s opioid epidemic.Attorney...
Sep 18 2019 // A broker at BNP Paribas SA who complained about being paid less than male colleagues won her employment suit after a London judge ruled that she suffered sexual discrimination.Stacey Macken, a prime brokerage product...
Sep 17 2019 // A federal lawsuit accuses a major pipeline company based in Georgia of failing to tell work crews where a major underground pipeline was located before they ruptured the line, touching off a deadly explosion in Alabama.The...
Sep 17 2019 // Several deaths and potentially hundreds of illnesses have been tied to e-cigarettes, which allow users to inhale nicotine vapor, often flavored, without smoking. Lawsuits have been filed against e-cigarette maker Juul and...
Sep 16 2019 // The parents of a Georgia Tech student killed by a campus police officer two years ago have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the school, the university system and the officer.Authorities have said university police...
Sep 16 2019 // Federal employment officials have sued a car dealership in Norman, Oklahoma, saying the company unlawfully refused to hire a sales job candidate because she was female.In the lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Sep 16 2019 // Four more people who received knee-replacement surgery at the Mizzou BioJoint Center say in lawsuits that their surgeries failed.Including the newly filed lawsuits, 17 people have sued the center at University of Missouri...