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US Supreme Court to Hear Facebook Bid to Escape Securities Fraud Suit

Nov 8 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to consider a bid by Meta’s Facebook to scuttle a federal securities fraud lawsuit brought by shareholders who accused the social media platform of misleading them about the...

CNN Must Face Project Veritas’ Defamation Lawsuit, Appeals Court Rules

Nov 8 2024 // A U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday revived a defamation lawsuit accusing CNN of defaming Project Veritas in its explanation of why the conservative group, which is often accused of using deceptive tactics, was...

Danone Wins Dismissal of Evian Microplastics Lawsuit

Nov 7 2024 // The maker of Evian spring water, Danone, won the dismissal of a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing it of defrauding consumers with labels that claim the water is “natural” even though it contains microplastics that...

Company Vows to Sue Over Damages After New Mexico Police Destroy Cannabis Crops

Nov 7 2024 // State police have destroyed tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana plants at greenhouses in northwestern New Mexico, marking what regulators say is the largest seizure and destruction of cannabis in New Mexico since new...

Fairgoers Join Lawsuit Against State Fair of Texas and Dallas Over Firearms Ban

Nov 6 2024 // Three fairgoers have joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in suing the State Fair of Texas and the city of Dallas over the fair’s policy banning all firearms from its properties.Monday’s filing is the...

Judge Delays Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Karen Read Until After Criminal Trial

Nov 5 2024 // A judge ruled Thursday that Karen Read won’t have to give a deposition in her wrongful death lawsuit until after her criminal trial in January.The brief from Judge William M. White Jr. on Thursday effectively delays...

Facebook, Nvidia Ask Supreme Court to Spare Them From Securities Fraud Suits

Nov 4 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider bids by two tech giants – Meta’s Facebook and Nvidia – to fend off federal securities fraud lawsuits in separate cases that could make it harder for private litigants to...

Meta Loses Bid to Appeal UK Class Action Over User Data

Nov 4 2024 // Meta Platforms Inc. failed in a bid to challenge a class action suit in the UK that alleged Facebook abused its dominant position and exploited its users personal data.The UK’s Court of Appeal refused to permit Meta...

Update: TikTok Sued by Families in France After Children’s Suicides

Nov 4 2024 // TikTok was sued by a group of seven French families who blame the social network app for harming the mental health of their children, driving two of them to suicide.The families, grouped in the association Algos Victima,...

PepsiCo Beats New York State’s ‘Predatory’ Lawsuit Over Plastics Pollution

Nov 4 2024 // PepsiCo won the dismissal of New York’s lawsuit accusing the beverage and snack-food company of polluting the environment with single-use plastic packaging, as the judge criticized the state’s attorney general,...

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Minnesota Trooper in Fatal Shooting of Black Man

Nov 1 2024 // A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit against a white Minnesota state trooper who shot and killed a Black man during a traffic stop last year, ruling that the trooper’s actions did not violate the...

Retrial Begins in Civil Suit Against Contractor Accused in Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal

Nov 1 2024 // A military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago is again on trial in a federal courtroom after a long-awaited civil case earlier this year ended...

Los Angeles County Sues PepsiCo and Coca-Cola Over Plastic Pollution

Nov 1 2024 // Los Angeles County has sued beverage makers PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, accusing them of polluting the most populous U.S. county with plastic bottles and misleading the public about the environmental impact and recyclability of...

Trick or Treat? Lawsuit Alleges Some Hershey Candy Wrappers Contain PFAS

Oct 31 2024 // Just two days before Halloween, The Hershey Co. was hit with a class action lawsuit alleging that the packaging of some of its candies contains unsafe levels of chemicals known as fluorine and/or per- and polyfluoroalkyl...

TPG’s Exactech Goes Bankrupt After Lawsuits Over Recalled Implant Devices

Oct 31 2024 // Exactech Inc., a maker of joint-replacement implants owned by TPG Capital, has filed bankruptcy after being accused in more than a thousand lawsuits of making defective hip and knee implants that hurt patients.The...

JPMorgan Sues Customers Over Check Fraud Linked to Glitch That Went Viral

Oct 30 2024 // JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank, has begun suing customers for check fraud, saying they improperly withdrew funds by taking illegal advantage of a temporary technical glitch that went viral on TikTok.The glitch in...

McDonald’s Sued by Consumers in Proposed Class Action Over E.Coli Outbreak

Oct 30 2024 // McDonald’s was sued on Tuesday by consumers in a proposed class action stemming from the E.coli outbreak linked to onions in the fast-food chain’s Quarter Pounders.Amanda McCray of Chicago and William Michael...

Michigan Culver’s Restaurants Sued for Discriminating Against Transgender Employee

Oct 29 2024 // Five related entities operating Culver’s restaurants in Michigan violated federal law when they fired a transgender employee and three of his colleagues after they complained about harassment, the U.S. Equal...

AI Chatbot Pushed Florida Teen to Suicide, Lawsuit Against Its Creator Alleges

Oct 29 2024 // In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest friend.For months, Sewell had become increasingly isolated from his...

Where’s the Meat? Lawsuit Claims Subway Sandwich Skimps on Filling

Oct 29 2024 // A new lawsuit accuses Subway of “grossly misleading” customers by advertising sandwiches that contain at least three times more meat than it delivers.According to a proposed class action filed on Monday in...