All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 24 2017 // A screenwriter and producer has sued Walt Disney Pictures on claiming the studio copied his ideas to create the Oscar-winning animated film “Zootopia.”Gary L. Goldman, whose credits include work on film...
Mar 24 2017 // Two men have filed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America and its local branch for $7 million each, claiming they were sexually abused by a former scout leader in Milwaukie in the 1970s.The Oregonian/OregonLive...
Mar 23 2017 // Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. has agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over a 2013 security breach that exposed the credit and debit card data of about 350,000 shoppers.Court documents show the...
Mar 22 2017 // A Georgia man is suing a Louisiana doughnut shop over claims that his father died of an allergic reaction after eating an apple fritter.The son’s attorneys on filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Dynasty Donuts...
Mar 22 2017 // A former Jackson County commissioner accused in a lawsuit of bilking investors to finance a pot shop has filed a counterclaim.Doug Breidenthal filed the lawsuit contending his professional reputation has been damaged, the...
Mar 22 2017 // A U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday in a lawsuit over adult diapers will make it more difficult for companies accused of patent infringement to shoot down lawsuits because the plaintiffs waited too long to bring them.In...
Mar 22 2017 // A legal battle between two insurance brokerages over whether a former employee violated non-compete agreements and poached numerous employees is not over yet but the brokerage bringing the charges has scored key early...
Mar 21 2017 // Attorneys for a south Louisiana flood board aren’t giving up on their attempt to make scores of oil and gas companies pay for damage to the state’s coastline.A federal judge dismissed their lawsuit in 2015 and...
Mar 21 2017 // It all came down to a missing comma, and not just any one. And it’s reignited a longstanding debate over whether the punctuation is necessary.A federal appeals court decided this week to keep alive a lawsuit by dairy...
Mar 20 2017 // A federal judge has dismissed a Des Moines water utility’s lawsuit against three counties that accuses them of allowing agricultural drainage districts to send nitrate pollution into the rivers the water utility uses...
Mar 20 2017 // Lawyers representing tens of thousands of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) shareholders have held tentative talks to settle a 1.2 billion pound ($1.5 billion) damages claim over the lender’s 2008 rights issue that was...
Mar 20 2017 // The Mississippi Supreme Court won’t dismiss a state lawsuit against an insurance company over Hurricane Katrina claims.The Sun Herald reports that Attorney General Jim Hood’s lawsuit against insurance giant...
Mar 20 2017 // A class-action lawsuit says Kona Brewing Co. leads customers to believe they are buying made-in-Hawaii beer.The lawsuit filed in California is against Craft Brew Alliance, which advertises, markets, distributes and sells...
Mar 20 2017 // The Texas Senate Business and Commerce Committee on March 9 heard testimony on a revised bill that aims to limit the number of policyholder lawsuits filed against property insurance companies following severe weather...
Mar 20 2017 // The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of an insurer in a case that hinged on the applicability of an insured-v.-insured exclusion in the carrier’s directors and officers (D&O) liability policy.The...
Mar 17 2017 // A U.S. judge has given final approval to a settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit against Lyft Inc., ending a legal case that challenged the independent contractor status of the ride-hailing service’s...
Mar 16 2017 // The city of Hot Springs, Ark., has settled a $300,000 federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a former employee of the city’s solid waste department.The Sentinel-Record reports the settlement was reached on March 13....
Mar 16 2017 // The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah organization has been sued by a man who claims the group did not do enough to stop a former mentor from sexually abusing him when he was a boy over a period lasting nearly five...
Mar 16 2017 // A central Florida man is suing a mining company that he says built homes over former phosphate mines and didn’t warn homeowners about health hazards. Lakeland homeowner John Jerue filed the lawsuit last week against...
Mar 15 2017 // The Texas Senate Business and Commerce Committee on March 9 heard testimony on a revised bill that aims to limit the number of policyholder lawsuits filed against property insurance companies following severe weather...