All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 9 2024 // A Texas energy company will pay a $265,000 fine to settle charges that it subjected Black and Hispanic field mechanics to harassment.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced last week that Liberty...
May 9 2024 // A tennis player was awarded $9 million in damages by a jury in federal court in Florida after accusing the U.S. Tennis Association of failing to protect her from a coach she said sexually abused her at one of its training...
May 9 2024 // A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Maine woman who accused school officials of encouraging her teen’s gender expression by providing a chest binder and using a new name and pronouns, without consulting...
May 8 2024 // CHICAGO (AP) — Child sexual abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers was pervasive and systemic for decades, according to disturbing accounts in a lawsuit filed Monday by 95 men and women housed at the youth centers...
May 8 2024 // Pfizer Inc. has agreed to settle more than 10,000 cases accusing it of hiding the cancer risks of its Zantac heartburn drug, according to people familiar with the deal, the biggest of the litigation.The agreements cover...
May 8 2024 // China-based ByteDance Ltd. made clear it won’t comply with a new US law requiring it to sell its popular TikTok video-sharing app, setting up what likely will be a prolonged court battle pitting free-speech rights...
May 8 2024 // The husband of a Connecticut visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday, alleging her employer repeatedly ignored workers’ safety concerns about...
May 8 2024 // Had emergency responders known about widespread cellphone outages during the height of last summer’s deadly Maui wildfires, they would have used other methods to warn about the disaster, county officials said in a...
May 7 2024 // Lenders to 777 Partners have accused it of fraud, claiming that the Miami-based investment firm borrowed against $350 million of assets that it didn’t own, didn’t exist or were already promised to someone...
May 6 2024 // Attorneys for more than two dozen Iowa and Iowa State athletes who were ensnared in a state gambling sting filed a civil lawsuit seeking unspecified monetary damages from the state and its public safety and criminal...
May 6 2024 // The US Securities and Exchange Commission warned Robinhood Markets Inc. that it faces an enforcement action over its crypto business — the latest sign that the regulator isn’t letting up on its years-long crackdown...
May 6 2024 // Savage River Lodge and Little Crossings will pay $150,000 and furnish equitable relief to settle federal charges that they discriminated against an employee because of her pregnancy and then fired her.The Frostburg,...
May 6 2024 // A federal appeals court panel last week rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional...
May 6 2024 // Two Texas-based natural gas companies are being sued by Oklahoma, which alleges they fraudulently reduced gas supplies to send prices soaring during Winter Storm Uri making huge profits while thousands shivered across the...
May 6 2024 // Cavco Industries, Inc.; Palm Harbor Homes, Inc.; and Palm Harbor Villages, Inc., which manufacture and sell manufactured homes in Waco, Texas, will pay $135,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S....
May 3 2024 // Artsana, a maker of child car booster seats, last year agreed to settle claims that it had misled customers about how to use its products, offering $50 to people who had bought Chicco-brand seats.The company, which did not...
May 3 2024 // Uber Technologies Inc. was sued by thousands of London’s black cab drivers in a suit seeking hundreds of million pounds accusing it of unlawfully operating in the capital city.The claim alleges Uber improperly...
May 3 2024 // After an investment research firm dropped a bombshell last month and sent shares of Globe Life Inc. plunging by 53%, the insurance company denied the allegations that officers had concealed fraud and sexual harassment...
May 2 2024 // Resilience announced new integrated capabilities that enable enterprises to continuously monitor and prioritize their mitigation and transfer of cyber risk.Following the launch of Technology Errors and Omissions (E&O)...
May 1 2024 // Johnson & Johnson said Wednesday it is moving forward with a $6.48 billion proposed settlement of tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that its baby powder and other talc products contain asbestos and cause ovarian...