All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 14 2025 // Two North Dakota nonprofits have settled their lawsuit against a white nationalist hate group that alleged it intimidated immigrant business owners, though the details are unclear.A court docket entry last week gave notice...
Feb 14 2025 // Lawyers sparred before New York’s top court Wednesday over how specific a man alleging sexual abuse decades ago needs to be in his lawsuit against the state in a case that’s being watched by advocates concerned...
Feb 14 2025 // Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum threatened a civil lawsuit against Google for renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on its maps service following an executive order Donald Trump signed after taking...
Feb 14 2025 // Baltimore is suing gunmaker Glock over design features that allow its handguns to be easily modified to become fully automatic weapons, which enables criminals to inflict more damage and makes the city more dangerous,...
Feb 13 2025 // A federal judge has dismissed the city of Boston’s lawsuit seeking to hold pharmacy benefit managers liable for the opioid epidemic. US District Judge Patti B. Saris ruled that the suit against the drug...
Feb 13 2025 // The Catholic Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey has sued its liability insurers over their alleged “failure and refusal” to agree upon a cost-sharing formula to deal with hundreds of sexual abuse claims brought...
Feb 12 2025 // Starbucks SBUX.O was sued on Tuesday by the U.S. state of Missouri, which accused the coffee chain of using a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion as a pretext to systematically discriminate based on race, gender...
Feb 12 2025 // A judge dismissed a lawsuit Monday by an acclaimed opera singer who sued the University of Michigan over his firing for what the school deemed sexual misconduct.David Daniels waited too long to sue the university, U.S....
Feb 12 2025 // The parent company of Southern California Edison has been sued for allegedly defrauding shareholders before the recent Los Angeles-area wildfires by assuring them it could shut down power lines to reduce the risk of...
Feb 11 2025 // Twenty-two states sued New York on Thursday, contending that a new law forcing a small group of major energy producers to pay $75 billion into a fund to cover climate change damage is unconstitutional.The lawsuit, filed in...
Feb 7 2025 // Avolon and BOC Aviation, two of the world’s largest aircraft lessors, have settled lawsuits in the Irish courts against insurers over jets stranded in Russia following Western sanctions in 2022, they said on...
Feb 7 2025 // A Wisconsin couple is suing Walgreens and a pharmacy benefits management company, alleging that their son died because he couldn’t afford a sudden $500 spike in his asthma medication.Shanon and William Schmidtknecht,...
Feb 7 2025 // A Texas crisis communications specialist has sued Blake Lively for defamation after the actor pulled him into her legal fight with co-star and director Justin Baldoni over their film, “It Ends With Us.”Jed...
Feb 6 2025 // The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Monday on behalf of an Arkansas librarian who was fired after she spoke out against efforts to restrict the public’s access to certain books.The ACLU of Arkansas...
Feb 5 2025 // A lawsuit alleging for the first time that people died because of the disastrous 2023 East Palestine train derailment was announced on Monday’s second anniversary of the toxic crash near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border...
Feb 4 2025 // Bally’s Corp. and the City of Chicago were accused of discriminating against White men in a lawsuit by a conservative legal group challenging a $1.7 billion casino project that offered a 25% ownership stake only to...
Feb 4 2025 // Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is now the acting head of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, signaling a potential shift away from the aggressive enforcement and regulatory approach under Rohit Chopra.It comes...
Feb 4 2025 // The number of securities class action filings increased for the second consecutive year in 2024, with artificial intelligence (AI)-related filings more than doubling from the previous year, according to a new report...
Feb 4 2025 // An insurance company says it is not obligated to defend or indemnify the owners and managers of a Memphis apartment complex who are facing a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the fatal shooting of a 14-year...
Feb 3 2025 // A group of victims of the New Orleans New Year’s Day terror attack have filed suit against city officials and contractors, saying they failed to protect revelers from a “preventable” truck ramming...