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Texas Housekeeping Provider to Pay $520K Over Disability Discrimination Suit

Feb 15 2024 // Hospital Housekeeping Systems, LLC (HHS), a provider of housekeeping, food and facilities support to numerous industries, based in Dripping Springs, Texas, will pay $520,000 as part of the settlement of a disability...

Georgia Senate Approves End to Direct-Action Suits vs. Truck Insurers

Feb 15 2024 // ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia senators are moving to limit the ability of people to sue insurance companies directly in lawsuits over trucking accidents.The Senate voted 46-2 on Tuesday to pass Senate Bill 426, sending it the...

Tinder, Other Match Dating Apps Encourage Compulsive Use, Lawsuit Claims

Feb 15 2024 // Match Group was sued on Wednesday in a proposed class action claiming that its dating apps Tinder, Hinge and The League are designed to addict users, generating more profit for the company, rather than help them establish...

Vermont’s Consumer Protection Suit Against Energy Firms Returned to State Court

Feb 15 2024 // The federal district court in Burlington, Vermont recently granted the state attorney general’s motion to return the state’s consumer protection case against Exxon and other fossil fuel producers to state...

Case Dismissed: Appeals Court Slams Expert Witness in Diabetes Drug Lawsuits

Feb 15 2024 // Multi-district litigation over the diabetes drug saxagliptin, a case that combined more than 80 suits from around the country, has failed because the plaintiffs’ sole expert witness was unreliable and did not show a...

Minneapolis Settles Suit Alleging Journalists Were Harassed, Hurt Covering Floyd Protests

Feb 14 2024 // The city of Minneapolis agreed last week to pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that journalists were subjected to police harassment and even hurt while covering protests over the police killings of George Floyd.The...

Kentucky Attorney General Sues Kroger, Alleging Role in Opioid Crisis

Feb 14 2024 // FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman filed a lawsuit Monday against one of the nation’s largest grocery chains, claiming its pharmacies helped fuel the state’s deadly opioid...

Columbia University Sued by Jewish Student Over Campus Antisemitism

Feb 14 2024 // Columbia University was sued by a Jewish graduate student who claims the campus experienced an “explosion” of antisemitism since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.Mackenzie Forrest, 23, claims she faced...

New York Attorney General Triples Size of Crypto Fraud Lawsuit to $3 Billion

Feb 14 2024 // New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday expanded her lawsuit against Digital Currency Group and other cryptocurrency defendants, tripling the size of their alleged fraud scheme to more than $3 billion.James had...

Texas Nursing Care Facility Settles Sex Discrimination Lawsuit for $50K

Feb 13 2024 // Paramount Healthcare Consultants, LLC, which operates nursing care facilities across Texas and Louisiana, will pay $50,000 to settle a sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...

Teacher Who Held Mock Slave Auction in 4th Grade Class Settles Lawsuit for $75K

Feb 13 2024 // A New York teacher who staged a mock slavery auction of Black students in her fourth-grade classroom will pay $75,000 to settle claims on behalf of a 10-year old boy whose mother said he was emotionally damaged by being...

HP Claims $4 Billion Losses in London Lawsuit Over Autonomy Deal

Feb 12 2024 // Hewlett-Packard lost more than $4 billion over its acquisition of British software firm Autonomy because of an elaborate fraud masterminded by its co-founder Mike Lynch to inflate the company’s value, HP’s...

Amazon Staff Allege Retaliation in Pay Gap Discrimination Suit

Feb 12 2024 // Amazon.com Inc. allegedly retaliated against three female employees — including firing one and placing another on a performance plan — after they sued the company for discrimination, the plaintiffs said in new court...

Louisiana Furniture Retailer Settles Race Discrimination Lawsuit for $105K

Feb 9 2024 // A furniture retailer and lessor based in Louisiana has agreed to pay a former employee $105,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency...

Amazon Steers Consumers to Higher-Priced Items, Lawsuit Claims

Feb 9 2024 // Amazon.com was sued in a proposed U.S. class action accusing the online retailer of violating a consumer protection law by steering hundreds of millions of shoppers to higher-priced items in order to earn extra...

Florida Bills on Litigation Financing, Wind-Mit Program Moving Along

Feb 9 2024 // Two pieces of legislation that could help reduce losses and litigation costs for insurance carriers are moving in the Florida Legislature: Litigation funding restrictions and changes to the state’s home-hardening...

Daughter of Wisconsin Inmate Who Died in Solitary Sues Prison Officials

Feb 9 2024 // MILWAUKEE (AP) — The daughter of a Wisconsin inmate who killed himself in solitary confinement has filed a federal lawsuit against state prison officials, alleging they failed to provide adequate mental health care and...

Judge Tosses Suit by Estate of Employee Killed in Crash After Mandatory Wine Tasting

Feb 9 2024 // A Connecticut judge has tossed a lawsuit by the estate of a woman who was killed in a crash while driving intoxicated following a mandatory wine tasting at the restaurant that employed her.The estate brought claims of...

Lubbock, Texas to Vote on Marijuana Despite Attorney General Lawsuit

Feb 8 2024 // LUBBOCK — An effort to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana in Lubbock is moving forward, despite Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suing five cities this week for doing the same.Lubbock Compact, the...

Supreme Court in UBS Case Makes it Easier for Whistleblowers to Win Suits

Feb 8 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for financial sector whistleblowers to win lawsuits accusing companies of unlawfully firing them as retaliation for disclosing wrongdoing, rejecting a bid by...