All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 27 2024 // Karen Read, whose recent high-profile trial for the death of a Boston police officer she was dating ended in a mistrial, is now facing a wrongful death suit brought by the late officer’s family that alleges she...
Aug 27 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina racetrack, shuttered briefly for defying state gathering limits during the pandemic, can sue the top health regulator on allegations that Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration...
Aug 27 2024 // Anna Netrebko’s lawsuit against the Metropolitan Opera was narrowed to gender discrimination claims by a federal judge, who agreed to dismiss the star soprano’s allegations of defamation, breach of contract and...
Aug 26 2024 // An appeals court in Washington, D.C. revived the district’s lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc on Thursday, saying it plausibly claimed the online retailer’s pricing policies illegally stifle competition.The...
Aug 26 2024 // Citigroup alleges that a former managing director suing the bank was fired for performance reasons, rather than for what she said were attempts by the bank to give regulators false information.On Thursday, the bank...
Aug 26 2024 // A Pennsylvania school district violated a teacher’s constitutional rights by falsely suggesting he took part in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, a federal jury has concluded.After an 11-day trial, jurors found...
Aug 23 2024 // An expelled Yale University student who was acquitted of sex assault charges in 2018 is now suing 15 women’s advocacy groups and an attorney for defamation after being called a “rapist” in a court brief...
Aug 23 2024 // Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court by three authors who say it misused their books and hundreds of thousands of others to train its AI-powered...
Aug 22 2024 // NEW YORK (AP) — Disney is no longer asking a Florida court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit on the grounds that the victim’s family had signed up for its streaming service Disney+.The company filed a notice in...
Aug 22 2024 // The family of a man fatally shot by a Connecticut police officer as he tried to flee in a stolen car while being attacked by a police dog has filed a wrongful death lawsuit and called Wednesday for a federal civil rights...
Aug 21 2024 // A federal judge temporarily cleared the way Monday for a transgender girl to play soccer for her high school team while she and another student challenge a New Hampshire ban.The families of Parker Tirrell, 15, and Iris...
Aug 21 2024 // A U.S. appeals court said Google must face a revived lawsuit by Google Chrome users who said the company collected their personal information without permission, after they chose not to synchronize their browsers with...
Aug 19 2024 // An employee of a rural Kansas school district repeatedly shoved a teenager with Down syndrome into a utility closet, hit the boy and once photographed him locked in a cage used to store athletic equipment, a lawsuit...
Aug 19 2024 // Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee announced Friday that the state has filed a lawsuit against 13 companies that provided design, construction and inspection services related to the troubled Washington Bridge.The bridge was...
Aug 16 2024 // Florida authorities have arrested a well-known southwest Florida insurance agent, charging him with larceny and embezzlement of premiums.Reid McDaniel, 33, who was named the honorary mayor of North Fort Myers last year but...
Aug 16 2024 // EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State has been sued over the Adolf Hitler question that appeared on Spartan Stadium screens before a game last season, with the quiz’s creator saying the university didn’t...
Aug 16 2024 // What’s in a name? Thousands of dollars, a lost job, denied insurance coverage and the possibility of a suspended law license for a Mississippi workers’ compensation attorney, apparently.It all has to do with...
Aug 16 2024 // All-Star Dearica Hamby sued the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and her former team in federal court Monday regarding her treatment from the Las Vegas Aces while pregnant.Hamby’s lawsuit alleged...
Aug 15 2024 // Five law firms should receive $267 million in legal fees for obtaining a $1 billion settlement for shareholders of Dell Technologies DELL.N, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, rejecting arguments that the...
Aug 14 2024 // General Motors GM.N has been sued by the state of Texas, which accused the automaker of installing technology on more than 14 million vehicles to collect data about drivers, which it then sold to insurers and other...