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Chicago Mother Sues City After Murder Charges Were Dropped Against Her and Her Son

Jun 28 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – A Chicago mother who was accused of telling her teen son to shoot a man at a fast food restaurant is suing the city and arresting officers, a day after murder charges against her and her son were...

Industrial Gas Maker Messer to Pay $1.9M to Settle WV Pollution Violation Suit

Jun 28 2023 // A producer of industrial gas in West Virginia has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle allegations that it violated the Clean Water Act by dumping copper, aluminum, residual chlorine, iron and phenolics into the Ohio River...

Disney Beats Investor Lawsuit Over Feud with DeSantis

Jun 28 2023 // The Walt Disney Co. board did not act negligently when it criticized a sexual identity bill signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Delaware judge ruled on Tuesday, in a case the judge said was improperly directed by a...

Oil-Field Lawsuit Offers Rare Insight Into Harassment Complaints

Jun 28 2023 // A lawsuit set for trial in July against the world’s largest provider of drilling services will offer rare public testimony about the plight of women working in America’s oil fields.Jessica Cheatham, who worked...

TotalEnergies Faces Second Lawsuit Over Oil Projects in Uganda and Tanzania

Jun 28 2023 // Five activist groups have sued French oil major TotalEnergies for a second time over its projects in Uganda and Tanzania in a Paris civil court, they said on Tuesday, after an earlier fast-track attempt was dismissed in...

High Court: Police in California Aren’t Immune From Certain Misconduct Suits

Jun 26 2023 // Police in California are not immune from civil lawsuits for misconduct that happens while they investigate crimes, the state Supreme Court ruled, overruling a precedent made by lower courts that had helped protect law...

Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Accusing Google of Stealing Millions of Song Lyrics

Jun 26 2023 // The US Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit by music website Genius Media Group Inc. accusing Alphabet Inc.’s Google of stealing millions of song lyrics.The justices left in place a ruling that tossed out the...

Texas Power Grid Operator Can’t be Sued Over 2021 Winter Storm, High Court Rules

Jun 26 2023 // The Supreme Court of Texas narrowly decided Friday that sovereign immunity, which largely shields government agencies from civil lawsuits, also protects the operator of the Texas electric grid.The 5-4 opinion will likely...

Yale Student Can Be Sued for Defamation for Reporting Rape, Court Says

Jun 26 2023 // In a decision scrutinizing how colleges investigate sexual assault allegations, Connecticut’s highest court ruled Friday that a former Yale student is not immune from a defamation lawsuit by a fellow student who was...

Lawyers Who Blamed ChatGPT for Bogus Case Law Fined $5,000

Jun 26 2023 // A federal judge on Thursday imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm in an unprecedented instance in which ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an aviation injury claim.Judge P....

Home Depot Paying $72.5M to Settle California Wage Class Action

Jun 23 2023 // Home Depot HD.N has agreed to pay $72.5 million to end a long-running class-action lawsuit alleging the largest U.S. home improvement retailer underpaid workers in California.The preliminary settlement was filed late...

JPMorgan Agrees to Pay $290 Million to Settle Epstein Suit

Jun 23 2023 // JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay $290 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it knowingly benefited from former client Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking, according to a court filing late Thursday.Lawyers for...

Atlanta City Clerk Sued for Denying ‘Stop Cop City’ Petition Lets Effort Move Forward

Jun 23 2023 // Facing a lawsuit from opponents of Atlanta’s proposed police and firefighter training center, the city clerk on Wednesday approved a petition that seeks to force a voter referendum on halting the complex.The approval...

Teenage Volleyball Player Who Lost Legs in St. Louis Accident Sues Drivers, City

Jun 23 2023 // ST. LOUIS (AP) – A teenage volleyball player from Tennessee is suing the Missouri city of St. Louis and two drivers who struck her in February, causing her to lose both legs.The lawsuit on behalf of Janae Edmondson...

Titanic Sub Victims’ Families Could Still Sue Despite Liability Waivers

Jun 23 2023 // Liability waivers signed by passengers on a submersible lost at sea during a dive to the Titanic wreck may not shield the vessel’s owner from potential lawsuits by the victims’ families, legal experts said.The...

MLB Sued by 17 Ex-Scouts Over Age Discrimination

Jun 23 2023 // Seventeen former Major League Baseball scouts who say they were discriminated against because of their age sued the league, its teams and Commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday.The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court...

Massachusetts Judge Rejects Auto Insurance Class Actions Over Diminished Value

Jun 23 2023 // A judge in Massachusetts has denied class certifications for claimants seeking payments from two insurers for the lost resale value of their motor vehicles that were damaged in accidents and then repaired.Suffolk County...

Oregon Climate Change Lawsuit Seeks $50B, Citing 2021 Heat Wave

Jun 22 2023 // An Oregon county on Thursday sued Exxon XOM.N, Chevron CVX.N, other major oil and coal companies, and industry groups, seeking over $50 billion to counter the harms caused by extreme weather fueled by climate...

Lawsuit: Insufficient Testing of Titanic Sub Put Passengers in ‘Potential Extreme Danger’

Jun 22 2023 // The company whose submersible vanished in the North Atlantic on a tourist dive to the wreck of the Titanic was repeatedly warned that there might be “catastrophic” safety problems with the venture, documents...

Colorado Supreme Court Strikes Law Allowing Child Sex Abuse Suits from Decades Past

Jun 22 2023 // Childhood sexual abuse victims in Colorado will no longer be able to file lawsuits over abuse that happened decades ago, as the state Supreme Court struck down a law Tuesday that gave victims a three-year window to sue...