All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 5 2018 // Walmart is again being accused of violating federal law by failing to accommodate workers’ pregnancy-related medical restrictions.According to a lawsuit that was brought by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity...
Nov 5 2018 // U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled late last month that they may issue more pro-business rulings giving companies wide latitude to use arbitration to resolve disputes with employees, customers or other businesses rather...
Nov 2 2018 // Documents show five lawsuits against a former West Virginia state trooper have been settled for $780,000, with half of that sum involving a woman who accused him of sexual assault.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the...
Nov 2 2018 // The former head of Utah Valley University’s anti-discrimination office has reached a settlement with the college after the woman filed a lawsuit accusing the school of unfairly firing her after she raised concerns...
Nov 2 2018 // A jury has awarded more than $3.5 million to a former Catholic school teacher who said the Archdiocese of Los Angeles fired her for being pregnant and unwed.City News Service reported that jurors deliberated for less than...
Nov 1 2018 // U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned an $8.5 million Google settlement in a case that could make it harder for companies to resolve class-action lawsuits without providing direct compensation to those affected.The...
Nov 1 2018 // A Florida man says the autopilot feature of his Tesla vehicle failed to detect a disabled car on a highway, leading to a collision that left him with permanent injuries, according to a negligence lawsuit filed...
Oct 31 2018 // The Los Angeles Unified School District will pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of a student who was molested by a teacher when she was 13.It would be the largest payout the nation’s second-largest...
Oct 31 2018 // A lawsuit targeting electric scooter-sharing companies seizes on the dangers of zipping around town on two wheels and brings gory detail to one of the more polarizing technology trends to emerge over the last year.Nine...
Oct 31 2018 // Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear has sued a pharmaceutical company, accusing it of contributing to the state’s opioid epidemic.Beshear says he has sued Pennsylvania-based Teva for marketing its products to...
Oct 30 2018 // The operator of a gas well that exploded in southeastern Oklahoma used a cheaper and quicker drilling plan than experts advised, the latest court filings in two lawsuits allege.Amendments filed earlier this month to the...
Oct 30 2018 // Local Virginia education officials have been sued over a game of tag played in gym class by a student who says it caused him serious long-term injuries. The Virginia-Pilot reports Javonte Smith and his father sued this...
Oct 30 2018 // U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled on Monday they may issue more pro-business rulings giving companies wide latitude to use arbitration to resolve disputes with employees, customers or other businesses rather than the...
Oct 30 2018 // An Alabama woman who claimed in a lawsuit that she was cyberbullied has been awarded $10,000 in damages.The Tuscaloosa News reports Victoria Love was awarded the money Oct. 23 by a Tuscaloosa County jury in her suit...
Oct 29 2018 // A proposed class action lawsuit in San Francisco federal court accuses Wells Fargo of making tens of thousands of automatically dialed, or “robo,” calls to cell phones without consumers’ consent.Filed on...
Oct 26 2018 // Texas’ Denton County will pay $115,000 to a female former county doctor after a federal court entered judgment in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a pay discrimination lawsuit...
Oct 26 2018 // The Wyoming Attorney General’s Office is suing the maker of OxyContin, claiming the pharmaceutical company deceptively marketed opioid painkillers in the state.The Casper Star-Tribune reports the state filed the...
Oct 26 2018 // New York’s attorney general on Wednesday sued Exxon Mobil, saying the Texas energy giant has misled investors about the risks that climate change poses to its operations.The lawsuit filed by Attorney General Barbara...
Oct 25 2018 // Low risk, but low readiness.That’s the assessment for Long Beach, Calif., a city that’s close to my heart. For those who love numbers, the city has a risk score of 49.48, and a readiness score of 47.01. Not...
Oct 25 2018 // Brenda Austin was worried when her son, Casey, told her he planned to work in North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield in early 2013.“Don’t worry. I’ll be in a safe spot,” he told her when he left their...