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Lawsuit Claims Isolation and Abuse at Wyoming Boys School

Mar 5 2024 // Staff at Wyoming’s state youth detention facility locked juveniles in solitary confinement for weeks at a time, repeatedly buckled one in a restraint chair for up to 12 hours a day and poked fun at another while...

Berkshire Unit Added to Lawsuit Over Inflated Real Estate Commissions

Mar 5 2024 // A unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway was added on Monday to a lawsuit accusing the National Association of Realtors and several brokerages of conspiring to keep real estate commissions artificially high...

Volkswagen Faces Pair of Lawsuits Over Claim Porsche EV Battery Sparked Ship Fire

Mar 5 2024 // Volkswagen AG faces a pair of lawsuits in Germany over claims it was the battery in a Porsche electric vehicle that triggered the 2022 fire onboard a massive cargo ship that eventually sank with thousands of cars on...

Former Twitter Execs Sue Elon Musk for Over $128M in Severance

Mar 5 2024 // Four former top Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, have sued Elon Musk for over $128 million in combined unpaid severance, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.The lawsuit, filed in federal court in...

Family of Man Who Died After Being Punched by Detroit Police Sues for $50M

Mar 4 2024 // DETROIT (AP) — The family of a 70-year-old man who died after a Detroit police officer punched him in the face, causing him to fall to the ground, is suing the former officer and the city of Detroit, seeking $50 million...

AI Firms Face Growing List of Lawsuits. Here’s What to Watch

Mar 4 2024 // Artificial intelligence firms are facing increasing pressure from some of the world’s most formidable names in technology and media, as new tools spark fresh questions over the risks posed by chatbots that threaten...

Mistrial Declared in Lawsuit Blaming Landscaper’s Cancer on Roundup Weedkiller

Mar 4 2024 // A Delaware judge declared a mistrial Friday in the latest lawsuit alleging that exposure to the popular weedkiller Roundup causes cancer.The ruling came about two hours after jurors sent a note saying they were unable to...

Xcel Energy Utility Equipment Started Texas Wildfire, Homeowner Claims in Lawsuit

Mar 4 2024 // March 1 (Reuters) – A Texas homeowner whose house was destroyed by a massive wildfire raging northeast of Amarillo sued electric utility Xcel Energy XEL.O on Friday, alleging that a splintered power pole owned by the...

Sisters of Man Fatally Shot by Police in Chicago Suburb File Federal Lawsuit

Mar 1 2024 // CHICAGO (AP) — The sisters of a man fatally shot in his home this month by suburban Chicago police filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the officers and their department, alleging wrongful death and other...

UK Plc Attracts Wave of Takeover Offers From Foreign Suitors

Mar 1 2024 // The UK has become a hotbed for mergers and acquisitions this year as dealmakers hunt for bargains in the country’s underperforming stock market.Direct Line Insurance Group Plc and electronics retailer Currys Plc both...

Job Cuts, Fleeing Investors: How Anti-DEI Lawsuits Take a Toll on Targets

Mar 1 2024 // Elizabeth Gore is fighting for survival.Just six months ago, the founder of financial technology startup Hello Alice was getting ready to close an investment round to grow its business offering grants and networking...

Tesla Must Face Class Action Claims by 6,000 Workers in Race Bias Case

Feb 29 2024 // A California state judge has tentatively ruled that nearly 6,000 Black factory workers can sue Tesla as a group for the electric vehicle maker’s alleged failure to address rampant race discrimination and harassment...

Lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X Against Hate Speech Watchdog Heads to Court

Feb 29 2024 // A U.S. judge on Thursday will consider whether to dismiss X Corp’s lawsuit against a nonprofit that has criticized a rise in hate speech on the social media platform once known as Twitter since Elon Musk took it...

St. Louis Suburb to Pay $4.5M Settlement Over ‘Debtors Prison’ Suit

Feb 29 2024 // ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused it of operating a so-called debtors’...

Google Hit With $2.3B Lawsuit by 32 European Media Groups

Feb 29 2024 // BRUSSELS – Alphabet’s Google was hit with a 2.1-billion-euro ($2.3 billion) lawsuit by 32 media groups including Axel Springer and Schibsted on Wednesday, alleging that they had suffered losses due to the...

Update: Woman Sues NFL Star Tyreek Hill, Says He Broke Her Leg in Backyard Football Drills

Feb 29 2024 // Miami Dolphins superstar Tyreek Hill has been named in a lawsuit by a model and social media influencer, who claims that Hill broke her leg after she knocked him backwards in an impromptu football instruction last...

Ohio Pizza Hut to Pay $13K in Damages for Discrimination Lawsuit

Feb 28 2024 // DT Pizza, a restaurant in Zanesville, Ohio doing business as Pizza Hut, will pay $13,083 in damages and $1,916 in back pay to resolve disability discrimination and harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...

Voyant Beauty Agrees to $75K Settlement Over Disability Discrimination Suit

Feb 28 2024 // Voyant Beauty, LLC will pay $75,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced.The EEOC charged in...

OpenAI Says New York Times ‘Hacked’ ChatGPT to Build Copyright Lawsuit

Feb 28 2024 // OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper “hacked” its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence systems to...

Boston Property Manager Sued For Revoking Job Offer for Woman With Breast Cancer

Feb 28 2024 // The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing a Boston property management firm for allegedly violating federal law by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a new hire with a disability and...