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Google Settles $5 Billion Consumer Privacy Lawsuit

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...

JD.com Wins Anti-Monopoly Lawsuit Against Alibaba

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...

5th Circuit Reverses Class Certification in Lawsuit Alleging State Farm Undervalued Total-Loss Claims

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...

Alibaba Must Face Lawsuit Over Counterfeit Squishmallows

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....

Florida Suit Over Charged Lemonade Death Puts New Focus on Energy Drink Safety

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...

Microsoft, OpenAI Sued by New York Times for Copyright Infringement

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...

California Lawsuit Says Grocer Broke Law by Asking Job-Seekers About Criminal Histories

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...

Litigation Abuse, Regulation, Hard Market Among Insurance Trades’ Priorities for 2024

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...

Tennessee Officials Sue BlackRock for ‘Misleading’ ESG Strategy

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...

Tampa Settles Lawsuit with Feds Over Parental Leave for Male Workers

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...

Feds Sue Houston-Area Developer For Predatory Lending

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...

Jury Dismisses Suit Claiming LSU Officials Retaliated Against a Former Athletics Administrator

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...

Novo Nordisk Sues Florida Pharmacies After Finding Impurity in Compounded Wegovy

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...

Pulitzer-Winning Authors Join OpenAI, Microsoft Copyright Lawsuit

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...

Citi Suit Raises #MeToo Claims at Wall Street’s Top Levels

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...

30 Florida Counties Join Suit Against Tax-Bill-Based Home Hardening Program

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...

Texas Woman Sues Doctor Over Unwanted Pregnancy

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...

Lawsuits Claiming Tylenol Causes Autism Lack Scientific Support, Judge Finds

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...

Tesla Moves to Pause EEOC Lawsuit Alleging Race Bias at Factory

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...

Texas Supreme Court Declines to Revive Billionaire’s Defamation Suit Against Beto O’Rourke

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...