All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 23 2023 // WACO, Texas (AP) – A U.S. District Judge has dismissed former Baylor football coach Art Briles and former athletic direcor Ian McCaw from a federal Title IX lawsuit, ruling no reasonable jury could find them negligent in...
Oct 23 2023 // ATLANTA (AP) — A medical sterilization company has agreed to settle nearly 80 lawsuits alleging people were exposed to a cancer-causing chemical, ethylene oxide, emitted from its plant outside of Atlanta.Details of...
Oct 20 2023 // Fortress Investment Group LLC is pitching an investment opportunity within an increasingly popular yet controversial corner of finance — funding other companies’ legal battles.The private equity firm is raising its...
Oct 20 2023 // Oct 18 (Reuters) – Music publishers Universal Music, ABKCO and Concord Publishing sued artificial intelligence company Anthropic in Tennessee federal court this week, accusing it of misusing an...
Oct 20 2023 // Eleven days after 57-year-old Anthony Talotta arrived at a Pittsburgh jail, he died from what his family says was a treatable and preventable infection from a foot wound. Talotta, who had autism and developmental...
Oct 19 2023 // bankruptcybakruptNew York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday sued cryptocurrency firms Genesis Global, its parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG) and Gemini for allegedly “defrauding” investors of...
Oct 19 2023 // Johnson & Johnson said it is weighing a third attempt to use bankruptcy for an $8.9 billion settlement of tens of thousands of lawsuits that allege tainted talc in the company’s baby powder caused cancer.Erik...
Oct 17 2023 // A lawyer for Donald Trump told a London judge Monday that the ex- president plans to prove that a discredited report by a former British spy that contained “shocking and scandalous claims” that he was...
Oct 16 2023 // Lilly USA, LLC, a pharmaceutical corporation based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and its parent company, Eli Lilly and Company, will pay $2.4 million and provide other equitable relief to settle a nationwide class age...
Oct 16 2023 // Minors and parents suing Meta Inc.’s Facebook and other technology giants for the kids’ social media platform addictions won an important ruling advancing their collection of lawsuits in a California court.A...
Oct 16 2023 // Debt-laden Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday and said it would close underperforming stores, as the drugstore chain comes under pressure from lawsuits alleging that it helped fuel the U.S. opioid...
Oct 16 2023 // The Mississippi sheriff who leads the department where former deputies pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for the torture of two Black men has asked a federal court to dismiss a civil lawsuit...
Oct 16 2023 // It was reasonable for an injured employee who is returning to work to refuse a job that accommodated his disability because he had personal and religious objections to getting a COVID-19 vaccine.The Virginia Workers’...
Oct 16 2023 // A federal judge rejected a request by McClenny Moseley & Associates to claim an interest in legal fees and expenses from a hurricane damage lawsuit, saying the law firm obtained its clients illegally by using a...
Oct 13 2023 // U.S. prosecutors say an Israeli private investigator used hackers to steal emails from climate activists who were campaigning against American energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp.In a sentencing memo filed on Thursday, U.S....
Oct 12 2023 // An unsolved $17 million heist of Swiss gold and cash near Canada’s busiest airport has led Brink’s Co. to sue Air Canada for allegedly letting a thief slip away with the loot.Miami-based Brink’s accused...
Oct 12 2023 // A jury has awarded more than $228 million in damages to several plaintiffs who sued a Las Vegas-based bottled water company after its product was linked to liver illnesses, a newspaper reported.The Las Vegas Review-Journal...
Oct 12 2023 // A teenager and her parents have filed a $30 million lawsuit against a northern Virginia school system, saying the district failed to adequately investigate and tried to cover up her sexual assault by a male student in a...
Oct 11 2023 // CHICAGO (AP) – The mother of a 19-year-old Chicago woman who was found dead in 2017 in a freezer at a suburban hotel where she had attended a party has reached a settlement in her lawsuit against the hotel and others.A...
Oct 11 2023 // In a move that has come to be expected following most cyberattacks, two victims of the recent 23andMe data breach have filed a class action lawsuit.The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...