All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 22 2019 // A bill that would make it harder for people to sue Mississippi property owners for some injuries is headed to Gov. Phil Bryant for his signature or veto. The state Senate on Tuesday voted 31-21 to concur with changes that...
Mar 22 2019 // Federal employment regulators say BlueCross/Blue Shield of Texas (BCBS), based in Dallas, will pay $75,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit.According to the suit filed by the U.S....
Mar 22 2019 // Three California police departments have reached a settlement with a man who was paralyzed after being shot by officers.The Fresno Bee reported this week that 19-year-old Adonis Serna has reached a $2.5 million settlement...
Mar 21 2019 // A federal judge is siding with the makers of Dum-Dums lollipops in its lawsuit against a rival candy maker.A preliminary injunction handed down in Ohio says Tootsie Roll Industries must at least temporarily stop using its...
Mar 21 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday put in jeopardy an $8.5 million settlement Google made with users to resolve a class action lawsuit accusing it of violating their privacy by sharing users’ search queries with...
Mar 21 2019 // The billionaire family that owns opioid-maker Purdue Pharma LP has been accused by local governments in a new lawsuit of causing the nationwide public-health crisis involving pain-killing medicines that has left hundreds...
Mar 20 2019 // Ohio is suing a company that managed prescription benefits for the state Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, seeking to recover nearly $16 million in alleged overcharges for the fund for injured workers.Attorney General...
Mar 19 2019 // Seattle, Wash. has paid nearly $160,000 to settle a federal civil-rights lawsuit.The case involved a veteran police officer with a history of discipline for unprofessional and questionable behavior who tackled a...
Mar 18 2019 // A well-known abortion rights activist from Utah has filed a lawsuit against three conservative media publications for defamation, says that online stories spread misinformation that she cut the throats of fetuses during...
Mar 18 2019 // A Maine marketing firm has settled a lawsuit with a former employee who claimed she was drugged at a company party and fired after requesting accommodations to recover.The Portland Press Herald reports an attorney for...
Mar 18 2019 // CBS Corp. directors agreed to settle for $1.25 million investors’ claims that network owner Sumner Redstone received millions of dollars in improper compensation after he became incapacitated in 2014.The money...
Mar 18 2019 // Former coal baron Don Blankenship is suing several news outlets and media personalities, claiming he was defamed during his failed bid for a U.S. senate seat in West Virginia.Blankenship’s suit was filed Thursday in...
Mar 18 2019 // Citing a concern over potential public disclosure of sensitive worker information, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently eliminated a requirement for businesses with 250 or more employees to...
Mar 18 2019 // It’s a good time to be in the restaurant industry. Restaurant sales in 2018 were projected to reach $825 billion — a 3.1 percent increase over 2017, according to the National Restaurant Association (NRA)....
Mar 15 2019 // UPS workers at a distribution hub in Ohio have sued the company, alleging discriminatory hiring decisions and a series of racist acts, including a noose and Confederate flags in the workplace.White employees in 2016...
Mar 15 2019 // The University of Southern California, Yale University, the University of California Los Angeles and other colleges were sued by two Stanford University students seeking class status over the admissions-bribery scandal...
Mar 15 2019 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing Volkswagen (VW) and its former chief executive Martin Winterkorn over the German automaker’s diesel emissions scandal, alleging a “massive fraud”...
Mar 15 2019 // A Delaware lawmaker who owns a house damaged by a fire that started in an adjacent city-owned dwelling has lost her bid to revive a federal lawsuit. Rep. Stephanie Bolden, a Wilmington Democrat, claimed that the city...
Mar 15 2019 // The gun industry suffered a stinging setback as Connecticut’s top court said families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre could move ahead with their lawsuit against Remington Arms Co. over...
Mar 15 2019 // Lawyers are already targeting Boeing Co. for Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines disaster even while investigators are still trying to figure out what caused two 737 Max 8 jetliners to go down in a span of five months,...