All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 4 2018 // A human trafficking survivor from Texas sued Facebook this week, alleging the social media platform provides human traffickers an unrestricted way to “stalk, exploit, recruit, groom … and extort children into...
Oct 4 2018 // The family of a Fort Worth man who died after they say officers needlessly choked, kicked and shot with a stun gun during a 2013 drug raid can proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit against two officers and the city, the...
Oct 3 2018 // Federal officials have sued the owners of a number of residential rental properties in or around Oklahoma City, alleging that subjected female tenants in and applicants for those properties were subject to sexual...
Oct 3 2018 // Rainbow USA Inc., a specialty apparel chain, violated federal law when it terminated a manager upon becoming aware of her pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed in...
Oct 3 2018 // The company that owns the Ride the Ducks operation in Branson has asked a judge to dismiss some of the lawsuits filed after one of its boats sank in a Missouri lake in July, killing 17 people.Ripley Entertainment said in...
Oct 3 2018 // Federal regulators sued the Greeley, Colo.-based trucking firm JBS Carriers, alleging it violated federal law by using pre-employment screening to reject job applicants on the basis of disability.JBS Carriers spokeswoman...
Oct 3 2018 // A former Mississippi basketball coach is suing over his dismissal claiming age discrimination.The Sun Herald reported Thursday former Long Beach High School coach Joel Boone field a lawsuit against the school district in...
Oct 2 2018 // For years, Spyros Panos seemed like a successful orthopedic surgeon, seeing dozens of patients a day and bringing in millions of dollars in fees for his suburban New York medical group.In fact, he was inflating charges and...
Oct 1 2018 // The rapper Nelly has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in Washington by a woman who alleges that he raped her on his tour bus then defamed her when he claimed she made up the accusation.The Seattle Times reported settlement...
Oct 1 2018 // Apple Inc. persuaded a federal appeals court on Sept. 28 to throw out a $234 million damages award in favor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm for infringing a patent on computer processing...
Oct 1 2018 // Parents of a former Boise charter school student are suing the school, claiming administrators created a hostile environment by failing to adequately respond after their daughter reported she had been sexually assaulted by...
Oct 1 2018 // California grocery outlet, PAQ Inc., dba Rancho San Miguel Market, violated federal law when it fired a deli clerk after she requested an accommodation for a disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Oct 1 2018 // A Montana photographer is suing Netflix, alleging the company violated copyright law by using one of his photos without permission to create storm images for the series “Stranger Things” and the movie...
Oct 1 2018 // Parents of children in the Roman Catholic Church and survivors of sexual abuse by clergy have filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania’s eight dioceses and their bishops asking a judge to compel them to release...
Oct 1 2018 // Fast food chain Del Taco violated federal law when at least three male employees, including those in supervisory roles, sexually harassed and retaliated against a group of young female workers at a Rancho Cucamonga,...
Oct 1 2018 // Despite insurers’ best efforts to increase rates to compensate for losses, commercial auto continues to be an unprofitable line. In less than a decade, despite continued increases in premiums, two major carriers have...
Oct 1 2018 // “While we cannot bring back the lives lost to opioid addiction, we can question whether Purdue has lived up to the decade-old promise they made to correct their behavior. The answer, unfortunately, is a resounding...
Sep 28 2018 // A Texas company that does business as a McDonald’s franchise has been sued over the alleged sexual harassment of four females in the workplace.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has alleged in a...
Sep 28 2018 // The family of an 86-year-old woman who died following a fall is suing a nursing home for $1.27 million.The Statesman-Journal reported the wrongful death lawsuit, filed this week in Marion County Circuit Court, accuses the...
Sep 28 2018 // A federal judge has dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit after a settlement was reached with the Montana hospital accused of paying some of its physicians at above-market rates in exchange for patient referrals to in-house...