All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 19 2017 // The parents of an unarmed man fatally shot by a Florida sheriff’s sergeant at the family’s nursery announced Monday that they have agreed to a $2.5 million settlement and called for the reopening of a criminal...
May 19 2017 // Relatives of 18 of the 36 people who died in the Oakland, Calif. “Ghost Ship” warehouse fire added Pacific Gas & Electric utility as a defendant in their wrongful death lawsuits. They claimed the company...
May 19 2017 // Carolina Creek Christian Camp Inc., a Huntsville, Texas-area business offering summer camping and retreats, will pay $70,000 and furnish other relief to settle a pregnancy and disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the...
May 19 2017 // A former student has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Vanderbilt University, claiming he was wrongfully accused of sexual assault.The Tennessean reports the lawsuit was filed May 5. It claims the student, identified...
May 18 2017 // A federal judge on Thursday dismissed two lawsuits seeking to hold Facebook Inc. liable for supporting terrorist groups by letting them use its social media platform to further their goals, including violence against...
May 18 2017 // A new federal lawsuit against Baylor University alleges football players routinely recorded gang rapes and staged dog fights during hazing parties in a program that fostered sexual violence.A former Baylor volleyball...
May 18 2017 // A group of liberal and conservative online political commentators in Ohio has filed a constitutional challenge to the state’s recently enacted law against internet harassment.A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S....
May 18 2017 // A county in New York state has sued Purdue Pharma LP, Johnson & Johnson and other drugmakers, accusing them of engaging in fraudulent marketing that played down the risks of prescription opioid painkillers, leading to...
May 18 2017 // A New York woman has sued the Target corporation after one of its two-ton red balls rolled into her driver’s side door.Eileen Grady claims in her lawsuit that the company “knew or should have known” the...
May 17 2017 // Legislation backed by the insurance industry and some Texas business groups that curtails the ability of policyholders to sue insurance companies over property claims following extreme weather events has passed the state...
May 17 2017 // A group of Oregon farmers has filed a $6.7 million lawsuit against a bank for allegedly interfering with sales of radish seed and thus causing its value to decrease. The Capital Press reported the Radish Seed...
May 17 2017 // Neighbors have filed the first lawsuit stemming from a fatal house explosion in northern Colorado that’s blamed on unrefined natural gas flowing from a severed pipeline.The Longmont Times-Call reported Swiin Jeffrey...
May 17 2017 // Attorneys representing the families of people who died in an Oakland, Calif. warehouse fire that broke out during an unlicensed concert plan to file a lawsuit against the building’s owner and manager.Lawyer Mary...
May 17 2017 // The City of Philadelphia sued Wells Fargo & Co. on Monday, accusing the largest U.S. mortgage lender of predatory lending, which violates the federal Fair Housing Act.The lawsuit came two weeks after the U.S. Supreme...
May 16 2017 // A Washington man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Eastern State Hospital staff after his brother died under their care.The Spokesman-Review reported that Kenneth Peters has accused doctors of not rendering...
May 16 2017 // Businesses that failed to update Microsoft Windows-based computer systems that were hit by a massive cyber attack over the weekend could be sued over their lax cyber security, but Microsoft Corp. itself enjoys strong...
May 15 2017 // Missouri lawmakers sent Gov. Eric Greitens a measure that would limit how much money people could receive for medical costs in injury lawsuits, the latest in a series of proposals that Republican supporters hope will make...
May 15 2017 // The Sioux City (Iowa) Community School District has paid $160,000 to a woman injured when a school bus rear-ended her vehicle in 2013.The Sioux City Journal reports that the school board approved the settlement last week...
May 15 2017 // A judge has dismissed a $4 million lawsuit filed by a relative of four people who drowned in a northwest Oregon lake in 2014.Judge Andrew Erwin dismissed the suit after Washington County argued it was entitled to immunity....
May 15 2017 // The family of a woman who jumped off a 27-story building in downtown Portland, Ore., has sued the security guard who couldn’t stop her.The lawsuit seeks $505,000, alleging the guard was at fault for unlocking the...