All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 25 2023 // Apple on Tuesday found itself the target of a 785-million-pound ($1 billion) class action lawsuit brought by more than 1,500 apps developers in the UK over its App Store fees.Apple’s services business, which includes...
Jul 25 2023 // In insurance defense attorney Dennis Kass’ world, litigation financing firms lurk behind the scenes, pushing plaintiffs to undergo as much treatment as possible so lawyers can maximize the value of claims.“In a...
Jul 24 2023 // The Muscogee (Creek) Nation has asked a federal appellate court to reinstate its lawsuit against the Poarch Creek Band of Indians and Auburn University for improperly removing graves from a sacred site in Alabama to build...
Jul 24 2023 // A demonstrator arrested outside the home of conservative legal activist Leonard Leo contends police violated his First Amendment rights.Eli Durand-McDonnell, 24, of Bar Harbor, contends in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday...
Jul 21 2023 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) _– New Orleans is being sued by the family of a teenager crushed by a massive tree limb in a historic French Quarter park.The 17-year-old is still in the intensive care unit, the family`s attorney said...
Jul 21 2023 // New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept...
Jul 21 2023 // A Connecticut man who was exonerated after serving 28 years in prison for killing a baby in 1994 has filed a lawsuit against the city of New Haven and six now-former police officers involved in his arrest.Adam Carmon, 51,...
Jul 21 2023 // FTX Trading on Thursday sued founder Sam Bankman-Fried and other former executives of the cryptocurrency exchange, seeking to recoup more than $1 billion they allegedly misappropriated before FTX went bankrupt.The...
Jul 21 2023 // A Rochester, New York technology firm has been charged with allegedly violating federal law by ending its interview with and failing to hire a qualified applicant for an engineering role because he is deaf.According to a...
Jul 19 2023 // A former Northwestern football player filed the first lawsuit against Pat Fitzgerald and members of the school`s leadership, seeking damages stemming from a hazing scandal that cost the former football coach his job.The...
Jul 19 2023 // A Georgia woman who was employed by State Farm Automobile Insurance Co. for 20 years is suing the insurer alleging she was discriminated and retaliated against because of her bladder disability.The employee, Elisa Brown,...
Jul 19 2023 // District of Columbia Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb has filed a lawsuit against more than 25 chemical companies for manufacturing, marketing, distributing, and selling products containing dangerous PFAS chemicals, which...
Jul 19 2023 // Twitter Inc. on Tuesday was hit with the second lawsuit this month to claim that it owes at least $500 million in severance pay to ex-workers, the latest in a series of cases arising from Elon Musk’s acquisition of...
Jul 19 2023 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Mississippi woman who says she was hit by a stray police bullet while lying in bed.Latasha Smith, 49, was in bed on Dec. 11 when an officer from the state-run Capitol...
Jul 19 2023 // Johnson & Johnson’s must pay $18.8 million to a California man who said he developed cancer from exposure to its baby powder, a jury decided on Tuesday, a setback for the company as it seeks to settle thousands...
Jul 18 2023 // The Salvation Army will pay $25,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to obtain relief for a former employee of the charitable organization’s Ann Arbor, Michigan...
Jul 18 2023 // Lion Elastomers, LLC, a manufacturing plant in Port Neches, Texas, agreed to pay $175,000 and provide other relief pursuant to a consent decree entered by a federal district court on July 7, resolving a disability...
Jul 18 2023 // An actor and model who had roles in the soap opera “Guiding Light” and movies including “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” says in a lawsuit that she was sexually harassed by the owner of a Rhode...
Jul 18 2023 // Tesla sued Australian company Cap-XX in Texas federal court on Friday, claiming its supercapacitors used for storing energy in electric-vehicle batteries infringe two U.S. patents owned by a Tesla subsidiary.Tesla CEO Elon...
Jul 18 2023 // Tesla Inc.’s directors will return $735 million to the company to settle claims they grossly overpaid themselves in one of the largest shareholder settlements of its kind, according to a Monday filing in a Delaware...