All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 29 2023 // Alphabet’s Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately.U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in...
Dec 29 2023 // Chinese online retailer JD.com 9618.HK said on Friday that it won a lawsuit against rival Alibaba 9988.HK, which was fined 1 billion yuan ($140.68 million) for monopolistic practices.The High People’s Court of...
Dec 28 2023 // A federal appellate court reversed a trial court’s decision to certify a class of plaintiffs in a lawsuit that alleged State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. undervalued total-loss claims by Louisiana claimants.A...
Dec 28 2023 // A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected Alibaba’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit over the alleged sale by various merchants of counterfeit versions of the popular children’s toy Squishmallows on its online platforms.U.S....
Dec 28 2023 // Panera Bread Co. must face a lawsuit over a death allegedly linked to its new line of “charged” lemonades, which have thrust the company into the spotlight and brought a renewed focus on the safety of...
Dec 27 2023 // The New York Times Co. sued Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI Inc. for the use of content to help develop artificial intelligence services, in a sign of the increasingly fraught relationship between the media and a technology...
Dec 27 2023 // California sued the Ralphs supermarket chain, alleging that it violated state law by asking job-seekers whether they had criminal records and illegally rejecting hundreds of applicants.The California Civil Rights...
Dec 27 2023 // Insurance trade organizations are always working for the industry so Insurance Journal asked them: What are the top priorities and/or challenges heading into 2024?Here are the responses we received: In the coming year, the...
Dec 27 2023 // (Bloomberg) — The state of Tennessee sued BlackRock Inc. for allegedly breaching consumer protection laws by making “misleading” statements about its ESG investment strategy.State Attorney General...
Dec 27 2023 // TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The city of Tampa has reached an agreement with the federal government to resolve a discrimination lawsuit alleging that male workers didn`t receive the same parental leave as female workers.Under...
Dec 22 2023 // HOUSTON — Federal authorities on Wednesday sued Houston-area developer Colony Ridge, accusing it of luring Latino home buyers into seller-financed mortgages and setting them up to default and face...
Dec 22 2023 // BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – A jury on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing top Louisiana State University officials of retaliating against an athletics administrator for reporting alleged inappropriate sexual behavior by a...
Dec 21 2023 // (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk has sued one compounding pharmacy and refiled a lawsuit against another after finding their products claiming to contain the active ingredient for its in-demand weight-loss drug Wegovy were...
Dec 21 2023 // A group of 11 nonfiction authors have joined a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court that accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of misusing books the authors have written to train the models behind OpenAI’s popular chatbot...
Dec 21 2023 // Ardith Lindsey’s lawsuit accusing Citigroup Inc. of tolerating years of sexual harassment and assault against her struck a chord across Wall Street for many reasons, not least of which was her title: managing...
Dec 21 2023 // Tax collectors in more than 30 Florida counties have joined a lawsuit against a home-hardening and energy efficiency program, arguing that it misleads homeowners and saddles them with huge property tax bills.The Florida...
Dec 20 2023 // Grissel Velasco didn’t want more kids.In 2014, Velasco — 31 years old at the time — was expecting her third child, and was receiving care at Sun City Women’s Health Care in El Paso, owned by OB-GYN and...
Dec 20 2023 // A judge has barred expert witnesses from testifying that Johnson & Johnson spin-off Kenvue’s painkiller Tylenol can cause autism if mothers take it during pregnancy, finding that they failed to support their...
Dec 20 2023 // Tesla Inc has asked a U.S. judge to pause a federal agency’s lawsuit accusing the electric carmaker of severe harassment of Black workers at its California assembly plant, saying two similar cases should play out...
Dec 19 2023 // The Texas Supreme Court said Friday it would not consider Republican megadonor Kelcy Warren’s defamation lawsuit against former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke after a state appeals court...