All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 7 2016 // Bully’s Sports Bar & Grill has agreed to pay $375,000 in back wages to settle part of a class-action lawsuit with 15 cooks who accused the oldest sports bar chain in northern Nevada of denying them overtime pay...
Oct 7 2016 // A Spanish language teacher who was fired from Lane Community College in Eugene, Ore. has filed a lawsuit against the college alleging ethnic discrimination and retaliation.The Register-Guard reported Maria Gutierrez, of...
Oct 6 2016 // A woman’s age-discrimination lawsuit against Google can include others who might have been denied a job with the company because they were deemed too old.A federal judge in San Jose, California, on Wednesday gave...
Oct 6 2016 // Clothed in the power of the law, the federal government is again suing a Mississippi strip club, saying black strippers should be treated equally when they take it all off.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Oct 6 2016 // Twelve football players and coaches who survived a North Carolina bus crash that killed four people last month are suing the church that owned the bus.Sandy River Baptist Church in Chester County failed to maintain the bus...
Oct 5 2016 // Malheur County farmers are suing their local irrigation district in Oregon, claiming it failed to deliver water when needed in 2014 and 2015. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that Delos and Barbara Lee, who farm alfalfa...
Oct 5 2016 // A federal judge has tossed out a $40 million civil rights lawsuit that alleged police used excessive force against protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, after the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown.U.S. District Judge...
Oct 4 2016 // A former employee of a Portland, Ore. nursing home has filed a lawsuit against the facility for $575,000, alleging she was fired in 2014 for reporting that a patient had been wounded because of neglectful care.The...
Oct 3 2016 // Legal and regulatory squabbles in New York, California and other states involving Berkshire Hathaway and its Applied Underwriter affiliates over particular workers’ compensation products should not have any negative...
Oct 3 2016 // Former NFL and University of Texas running back Cedric Benson has been sued by a woman who claims she and a dog she was walking were attacked by Benson’s two Rottweilers in July. Lynn Comegys claims she was walking...
Oct 3 2016 // A woman widowed when her husband was killed at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001 sued the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia just two days after Congress enacted legislation allowing Americans to sue foreign governments for allegedly...
Oct 3 2016 // The Rapides Parish Police Jury has hired a law firm to try to recover money they say was stolen from the District Attorney’s Office by an employee.The police jury, which is the governing authority for the parish,...
Sep 30 2016 // The man under fire for his management of the new jail in New Orleans has filed a lawsuit against the general contractors who built the facility.Sheriff Marlin Gusman’s suit seeks approximately $3 million for missed...
Sep 30 2016 // CNO Financial Group Inc. on Thursday said that two of its subsidiaries were terminating agreements with reinsurer Beechwood Re, after regulators in two states said that many assets managed by Beechwood were not compliant...
Sep 30 2016 // A U.S. law allowing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia over the Sept. 11 attacks met a stony silence from Riyadh on Thursday but some Saudis bristled, saying the kingdom should curb business and security ties in response.The...
Sep 29 2016 // The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit accusing a fast-growing Silicon Valley software company of systematically discriminating against Asian job applicants.Palantir Technologies was co-founded by prominent tech...
Sep 29 2016 // A federal judge has ruled that an insurance company is obligated to defend the ex-wife of serial political candidate Richard Korn in a defamation lawsuit he filed against her.Liberty Mutual argued that a homeowner’s...
Sep 29 2016 // The Water Works and Sewer Board in Gadsden, Ala., has filed a lawsuit against more than 30 carpet and textile companies over pollution in the city’s water supply.Media outlets report that the lawsuit, filed Sept. 22,...
Sep 28 2016 // Congress turned aside a last-ditch lobbying effort by the White House and Saudi Arabia Wednesday and overrode President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that would allow the kingdom to be sued for involvement in the...
Sep 28 2016 // Federal authorities are suing a Pennsylvania hospital, alleging religious discrimination in the firing of six employees who refused to get flu shots.The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Erie, Penn., by the Equal...