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Jury Hands $5.2B Verdict Against Vegas Company in Bottled Water Liver Damage Suit

Oct 28 2024 // A jury in Nevada has delivered a $5.2 billion award in the latest large-sum lawsuit against a former Las Vegas-based bottled water company that was found responsible for causing liver damage in customers before it was...

Georgia County to Sue BioLab Over Chemical Fire and Toxic Fumes

Oct 25 2024 // CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia county is preparing a federal lawsuit that aims to shut down the BioLab chemical factory where a fire sent a toxic chemical cloud over Atlanta’s suburbs last month, the latest in a...

Parents of Student Disciplined for Using AI Sue School

Oct 25 2024 // The parents of a high school senior in Massachusetts argued in federal court in Boston on Tuesday that their son was unfairly punished for using artificial intelligence while researching a history project, harming his...

McDonald’s Sued by Colorado Man Sickened in E. Coli Outbreak

Oct 24 2024 // A Colorado man has filed what appears to be the first lawsuit against McDonald’s over an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers that has killed one person and sickened nearly 50 others.The lawsuit, filed...

Australia Sues Insurer QBE Over Pricing Discounts, Shares Slip

Oct 23 2024 // Australia’s corporate regulator is taking QBE to court, alleging that the country’s biggest insurer by gross written premiums misled more than half a million customers about discounts on various products during...

Meta Platforms Defeats Shareholder Lawsuit Over Child Safety Claims

Oct 23 2024 // Meta Platforms and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg won the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming they misled shareholders in Meta’s proxy statement about their ability to ensure the safety of children who use Facebook and...

Mining Dam Disaster Deal Should Curb Lawsuits Against Vale and BHP, Sources Say

Oct 22 2024 // An agreement by Vale, BHP and their joint venture Samarco to pay 170 billion reais ($29.85 billion) in compensation for a deadly dam collapse in Brazil could end more than a hundred lawsuits against the mining companies in...

Trump Sued for Defamation by Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’

Oct 22 2024 // Donald Trump is facing a defamation lawsuit over comments he made during the September presidential debate about five men who were wrongly convicted in the 1989 jogger rape case and came to be known as the “Central...

Appeals Court Says Experts Must Show Causal Relationship in BP Oil Workers’ Suits

Oct 22 2024 // A federal appeals court has underscored the high bar that expert witnesses must meet before a court can connect the dots between exposure and illness, a ruling that could have an impact on insurance claims and toxic tort...

Murdoch Firms Dow Jones and New York Post Sue Perplexity AI

Oct 21 2024 // Media baron Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones and New York Post filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Monday, claiming the AI startup engages in a “massive amount of illegal copying” of their copyrighted...

Meta Must Face Massachusetts Social Media Addiction Lawsuit

Oct 21 2024 // Meta Platforms must face a lawsuit by Massachusetts alleging the social media company purposely deployed features on its Instagram platform to addict young users and deceived the public about the dangers it posed to the...

BHP Faces $47 Billion UK Class Action Lawsuit Over Brazilian Dam Collapse

Oct 21 2024 // A hearing in a lawsuit against BHP over Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, the 2015 collapse of the Mariana dam, will begin at London’s High Court on Monday, with claimants seeking up to 36 billion pounds...

Walmart Reaches Settlement in Shareholder Lawsuits Over Handling of Opioids

Oct 21 2024 // Walmart said Friday it has reached a proposed settlement pact related to three lawsuits filed by shareholders on behalf of the company over the handling of prescription opioids.According to the terms of the settlement that...

Court Orders Start to Expose ‘Startling’ Data on Litigation Funding Sources

Oct 21 2024 // There is no federal law that requires the disclosure of litigation funding agreements in court cases, but some disturbing insight has been found in individual jurisdictions that have rules to increase transparency,...

Supreme Court to Decide if White, Straight Workers Face Higher Bar in Bias Lawsuits

Oct 21 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court agreed in early October to decide whether it should be more difficult for workers from “majority backgrounds,” such as white or heterosexual people, to prove workplace discrimination...

Texas AG Sues Dallas Pediatrician Over Providing Hormone Treatment to Teens

Oct 18 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against a Dallas pediatrician, accusing her of violating state law by providing gender-transitioning treatments to at least 21 teenage patients.Thursday’s filing...

Oil Field Service Companies Face Lawsuit for Alleged Sexual and Racial Harassment

Oct 17 2024 // Oil field service companies Bigfoot Energy Services and Iron Mountain Energy Services, operating as a single employer, violated federal law by failing to prevent widespread sexual and racial harassment in their workforce,...

Family of Tenn. Man Who Died in Plastics Plant Flooding Files Wrongful Death Suit

Oct 17 2024 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The family of a Tennessee employee who was killed by catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Helene has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company he worked for, arguing that workers...

Meta Must Face State Lawsuits Over Teen Social Media Addiction

Oct 16 2024 // Facebook parent company Meta must face lawsuits by U.S. states accusing it of fueling mental health problems among teens by making its Facebook and Instagram platforms addictive, a federal judge in California ruled on...

Oregon County Adds Utility to $51B Climate Suit Against Fossil Fuel Companies

Oct 16 2024 // Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, has added the state’s largest natural gas utility to its $51.5 billion climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies over their role in the region’s deadly...