All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 16 2018 // Chicago-based Rosebud Restaurants Inc. will pay $160,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).The EEOC’s lawsuit charged Rosebud,...
Oct 16 2018 // A group of young Americans suing the federal government over lack of action to fight climate change can proceed with their lawsuit, but U.S. President Donald Trump cannot be named as a defendant, a federal judge ruled on...
Oct 15 2018 // Court documents show that two Minneapolis landlords accused of improper licensing and other violations have agreed to pay out $18.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by their tenants.The Star Tribune reports...
Oct 15 2018 // The Springfield, Missouri, school district has reached a settlement with a longtime secretary who claimed in a lawsuit that the district tried to fire her because of her age. The Springfield News-Leader reports the...
Oct 15 2018 // A Mississippi woman whose uterus ruptured during childbirth has been awarded more than $2 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against an OB-GYN.The Columbus Dispatch reports a jury awarded Talanda Blevins the funds....
Oct 15 2018 // The family of a Fort Worth man who died after they say officers needlessly choked, kicked and shot him with a stun gun during a 2013 drug raid can proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit against two officers and the city,...
Oct 12 2018 // Walmart Inc. has agreed to pay $65 million to nearly 100,000 current and former cashiers in California who accused the retailer of violating state law by refusing to provide them with seating while they worked.Walmart...
Oct 12 2018 // Nearly a decade ago, Imran Siddiqui helped engineer a shrewd maneuver for buyout mogul Leon Black’s Apollo Global Management LLC, one that’s yielded many millions for the firm.Then Siddiqui and Apollo parted...
Oct 11 2018 // A proposed settlement of more than $51 million has been reached in a class-action lawsuit over pollution problems at an industrial plant in southeast Iowa. The Muscatine Journal reports that the settlement with Grain...
Oct 11 2018 // A Fred Meyer customer in Clackamas, Ore. who says she was caught on store video while half-naked in a dressing room has filed a $300,000 lawsuit.The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Carlee Gish filed the lawsuit against the...
Oct 11 2018 // A Portland, Ore. woman who says debt collectors keep showing up at her door looking for someone she swears she doesn’t know has filed a $400,000 lawsuit to make them stop.The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Caitlin...
Oct 10 2018 // A single law firm based in Royal Oak has won tens of millions of dollars in lawsuits against a growing list of metro Detroit communities – including Detroit, Royal Oak, Ferndale, Birmingham, and the townships of...
Oct 9 2018 // Residents and businesses affected by the lead-contaminated water crisis in Flint are asking a judge to reinstate Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and other Michigan officials as defendants in a class-action lawsuit.Lawyers said...
Oct 9 2018 // The mother of a 2-year-old girl who was fatally mauled by dogs at her father’s home is suing Kansas welfare workers. The Kansas City Star reported that the lawsuit filed last month says the Kansas Department for...
Oct 9 2018 // Italian freight forwarders who say their business has been affected by a deadly bridge collapse in Genoa are taking legal advice and considering whether to sue toll-road operator Atlantia if the group is found...
Oct 8 2018 // A New Mexico man suing a supermarket chain after he says he slipped and fell on a green chile pod.The Albuquerque Journal reported a lawyer for Richard Berman filed a lawsuit last week in Santa Fe District Court two years...
Oct 8 2018 // A U.K. lawsuit filed against Google by millions of iPhone users over data-collection claims was thrown out by a London judge.The group, known as Google You Owe Us, were seeking as much as 3.2 billion pounds ($4.2 billion),...
Oct 8 2018 // A Kentucky woman is suing the U.S. arm of Brazil’s JBS SA, alleging she was hospitalized after consuming ground beef produced by the company that was tainted with Salmonella, according to a lawsuit filed on Friday in...
Oct 8 2018 // A lawsuit seeking to hold drugmakers and distributors responsible for a nationwide opioid epidemic should be allowed to move forward, a federal magistrate said in a preliminary ruling that may increase the likelihood of a...
Oct 4 2018 // A man who says he was sexually abused decades ago by his parish priest said he is suing all Catholic bishops in California and the Archdiocese of Chicago, seeking to compel church officials to release records on clergy...