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Injured Worker Upheld in Refusing Suitable Return Job Because He Opposed Vaccination

Sep 12 2023 // It was reasonable for an injured employee who is returning to work to refuse a job that accommodated his disability because he had personal and religious objections to getting a COVID-19 vaccine.The Virginia Workers’...

Mother Sues Peloton for Death of Son Killed When Bike Fell on Him During Workout

Sep 12 2023 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against Peloton over the death of her son, who was killed when his exercise bike fell on his neck during a workout in his New York City apartment.Ryan Furtado, 32, was doing a workout in his...

California School District Paying $2.25M to Settle Suit Involving Teacher Who Had Student’s Baby

Sep 12 2023 // A Southern California school district will pay $2.25 million to settle the latest lawsuit involving a teacher who became pregnant by one of at least two students she was accused of sexually abusing.The settlement brings to...

Class Action Claims Mobile Home Park Managers Conspired to Fix and Inflate Lot Rental Prices

Sep 8 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – A lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses nine mobile home community management companies and a mobile home market data provider of conspiring to fix and inflate lot rental prices at more than 150...

Litigation Funding Firms Seek to Intervene in Disciplinary Proceedings Against McClenny Moseley & Associates

Sep 8 2023 // Two litigation funding firms are seeking to intervene in disciplinary proceedings against McClenny Moseley & Associates after a federal judge in Louisiana ruled that the law firm has no right to any attorney fees for...

Kroger to Pay Up to $1.4 Billion to Resolve Opioid Lawsuits

Sep 8 2023 // Kroger on Friday said it would pay as much as $1.4 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits by U.S. states, local governments and Native American tribes claiming the supermarket chain’s pharmacies helped fuel the...

NC Bars’ Lawsuit Seeking Damages from State Over COVID Closures Can Continue

Sep 8 2023 // RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — Portions of a lawsuit filed by several North Carolina bars and their operators seeking financial damages from the state over COVID-19 restrictions that shuttered doors and curtailed business can...

Hooters of Louisiana to Settle $650K Race and Retaliation Lawsuit

Sep 7 2023 // Hooters of Louisiana, LLC and associated companies (“Hooters”) have agreed to pay former African American employees $650,000 to settle a race and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment...

Owner of Collapsed Iowa Apartment Building Files Lawsuit Blaming Engineering Company for Negligence

Sep 6 2023 // DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – The owner of an Iowa apartment building that collapsed in May, killing three people, has filed a lawsuit that blames an engineering company for not warning the building was structurally unsound and...

Things to Know About Lawsuits and Tourism a Month After Fire Leveled a Hawaii Community

Sep 6 2023 // Nearly a month after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century killed at least 115 people, authorities on Maui are working their way through a list of the missing that has grown almost as quickly as names have...

Google Tentatively Settles States’ Play Store Antitrust Suit

Sep 6 2023 // Alphabet Inc. tentatively settled claims that Google Play abuses its control over Android mobile applications, potentially resolving complaints over the company’s policies filed by consumers and attorneys general of...

Nick Carter of Backstreet Boys Facing Civil Suits in Las Vegas Alleging Sexual Assault Decades Ago

Sep 5 2023 // Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter has won a favorable ruling in one of two civil lawsuits filed against him in Nevada, one by a woman who alleges he raped her on his tour bus in Washington state in 2001 and another by a...

China’s Huawei Files Lawsuit in Portugal Over Ban on Supplying 5G Equipment

Sep 5 2023 // Chinese technology giant Huawei has filed a lawsuit with a Lisbon court against a resolution by Portugal’s cybersecurity council CSSC that effectively bars operators from using its equipment in high-speed 5G mobile...

Michigan Natural Foods Company to Pay $182K Over Sex Discrimination Suit

Sep 1 2023 // Eden Foods, Inc, a natural foods company based in Clinton, Michigan, will pay more than $182,500 to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to obtain relief for...

Kansas Police Chief Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Seizure of Reporter’s Cellphone During Newspaper Raid

Sep 1 2023 // One of the reporters who works at the small Kansas newspaper that was raided by authorities earlier this month filed a federal lawsuit against the police chief Wednesday.Deb Gruver believes Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody...

Google Hit With Copyright Lawsuit by Danish Online Job-Search Rival

Sep 1 2023 // Alphabet’s Google was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday by Danish online job-search rival Jobindex, a year after the latter complained to EU antitrust regulators that the U.S. tech giant unfairly favored its own...

University of Minnesota Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Negligence in Data Breach Incident

Aug 31 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A lawsuit filed on behalf of a former student and former employee at the University of Minnesota accuses the university of not doing enough to protect personal information from a recent data...

Australia Settles Lawsuit Over Climate-Related Systemic Risks to Sovereign Bonds

Aug 31 2023 // The Australian government has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit which alleged it had failed to disclose climate change-related risks to investors in the country’s sovereign bonds, court filings showed.The terms...

NFL-Style Lawsuit and Brain-Injury Concerns Hang Over Rugby World Cup

Aug 31 2023 // Alix Popham traveled the world as a rugby player. He played 33 times for Wales and competed at two Rugby World Cups, and even got to meet Nelson Mandela before a match in South Africa.Or so he’s told. He can’t...

Kansas College Reaches Settlement in Suit Alleging Discrimination Against Black Athletes

Aug 30 2023 // HIGHLAND, Kan. (AP) – A Kansas community college that was accused of trying to reduce the number of Black student-athletes has agreed to a settlement, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday.The department said in a...