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Boeing Sued by Alaska Air Passengers Over 737 Max 9 Door Blowout

Jan 16 2024 // Boeing Co. was sued by passengers on an Alaska Airlines Inc. flight that was forced to make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon, last week after a mid-air blowout of a so-called door plug on the 737 Max 9 jet.The...

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill

Jan 16 2024 // Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.Tom Goodhead, chief executive officer of Pogust...

Judge Dismisses Notre Dame Professor’s Defamation Suit Against Student Newspaper

Jan 16 2024 // SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A judge last week dismissed a University of Notre Dame’s professor’s defamation lawsuit against a student-run publication over news coverage of her abortion-rights advocacy.St. Joseph...

Judge Limits Delaware’s Sweeping Climate Change Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Companies

Jan 14 2024 // A judge has rejected several claims lodged by Delaware’s attorney general in a lawsuit alleging that the fossil fuel industry has downplayed the risks of climate change. Tuesday’s ruling significantly narrows...

Judge Says Lawsuit vs. Parkland School Deputy Can Go to Trial

Jan 12 2024 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A lawsuit filed by families of the 17 people killed and other victims of the Parkland, Florida, school massacre against a former sheriff’s deputy who failed to intervene can go forward,...

Harvard Sued by Jewish Students Over ‘Rampant’ Antisemitism

Jan 12 2024 // Harvard University was sued by Jewish students who claim the school has failed to punish campus antisemitism that soared after the Hamas attack on Israel and helped lead to the ouster of President Claudine Gay.Harvard...

California Man Gets Prison for False Sex Assault Claims in $100M Suit Against Hollywood Executives

Jan 11 2024 // A California man was sentenced to four years in prison for seeking to win a $100 million lawsuit by making false sexual assault claims against Hollywood executives.Rovier Carrington, 34, of Los Angeles was sentenced in...

Class Action Numbers Dip in 2023, but Settlements Still Costing Billions

Jan 11 2024 // Class-action and government enforcement lawsuits continued to take a toll on corporate defendants in 2023, with ten $1 billion settlements and a total cost of $51.3 billion, according to a report released Tuesday by the...

Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Over 2022 Philadelphia Fire That Killed 9 Kids, 3 Adults

Jan 10 2024 // Families of the 12 people killed in a Philadelphia row house fire that began in a Christmas tree two years ago sued a pair of city agencies Friday, claiming unsafe conditions on the property violated the victims’...

Supreme Court Allows Minnesota Lawsuit Against Fossil-Fuel Industry to Proceed

Jan 9 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Minnesota’s lawsuit against major actors in the fossil-fuel industry may proceed in state court. Without comment, the Court denied the petition of defendants ExxonMobil, the American...

OpenAI Claims New York Times Isn’t ‘Telling the Full Story’ in Suit

Jan 9 2024 // OpenAI publicly addressed a lawsuit from the New York Times in a strongly worded blog post on Monday, saying the newspaper’s complaint was “not telling the full story” about its use of Times data.The...

Prominent Black Church in New York Sued by Yale Professor for Gender Bias

Jan 9 2024 // A Yale professor has filed a federal gender discrimination lawsuit against a prominent Harlem church after it did not hire her for its senior pastor job.The suit brought by Eboni Marshall Turman accuses Abyssinian Baptist...

Lawsuit Says Compensation Delayed for Victims of Worst Wildfire in New Mexico History

Jan 8 2024 // A new lawsuit has been filed against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, alleging compensation has been delayed for victims of the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history.FEMA is responsible for doling...

Customer Sues Dunkin Donuts Over ‘Exploding’ Toilet in Florida

Jan 8 2024 // ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A customer has filed a negligence lawsuit against Dunkin`, claiming he was injured by an exploding toilet at one of the coffee chain`s locations in central Florida.Paul Kerouac is seeking more...

Microsoft, OpenAI Hit With New Lawsuit by Authors Over AI Training

Jan 8 2024 // OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft were sued on Friday in Manhattan federal court by a pair of nonfiction authors who say the companies misused their work to train the artificial-intelligence models behind the...

Oregon Judge Refuses to Dismiss 2015 Climate Lawsuit Filed by Youth

Jan 5 2024 // A judge in Oregon rejected a U.S. Department of Justice request to dismiss a 2015 lawsuit brought by young people that alleges the federal government knew the dangers posed by carbon pollution but that it has continued...

Florida Bad-Faith Suit Survives Even Though Policy Limits Paid and Sinkhole Excluded

Jan 5 2024 // Just because an insurer paid the full policy limits on a claim, and argues that the damages weren’t even covered, doesn’t mean it can escape a bad-faith lawsuit. It’s the type of court decision that has...

SpaceX Sues US Agency That Accused it of Firing Workers Critical of Elon Musk

Jan 5 2024 // Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Thursday sued a U.S. labor board to block its case accusing the company of illegally firing employees who sent a letter to company executives calling CEO Elon Musk “a distraction...

New York City Sues 17 Bus Companies for Transporting Migrants From Texas

Jan 5 2024 // New York City on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing 17 bus companies of illegally transporting more than 33,000 migrants to the city from Texas as part of a campaign by the state’s Republican governor to expel people...

Sex Abuse Lawsuit Against Former Southern Baptist Convention Leader Settled

Jan 4 2024 // The Southern Baptist Convention and others have reached a confidential settlement in a high-profile lawsuit that accused a former leader of sexual assault, ending a six-year legal drama that helped prompt a broader...