All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 23 2025 // Hershey defeated a lawsuit claiming it misled consumers who were disappointed the Halloween-themed Reese’s peanut butter candies they bought lacked the decorative details shown on the labels.U.S. District Judge...
Sep 22 2025 // Sunnybrook Union, a labor union representing teachers and educational support staff in the Sunnybrook School District in Lansing, Illinois, will pay $110,000 and provide other relief to settle a race discrimination case...
Sep 22 2025 // Starbucks workers in three states took legal action against the coffee giant Wednesday, saying it violated the law when it changed its dress code but refused to reimburse employees who had to buy new clothes.The employees,...
Sep 22 2025 // A federal judge on Friday threw out U.S. President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times over its content, calling it a “decidedly improper and impermissible” effort to...
Sep 22 2025 // A former Riverside megachurch pastor has been accused of sexually abusing and trafficking children for years at a shelter he ran in Bucharest, according to lawsuits filed by two Romanian men in U.S. District Court in...
Sep 22 2025 // A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Detroit police in the wrongful arrest of a pregnant woman who was charged in a carjacking partly because of facial recognition technology.Porcha Woodruff, who was eight months...
Sep 19 2025 // Many commercial auto insurers are in a holding pattern, waiting to see how some states’ litigation reforms are enacted and enforced. However, there seems to be some positive signs for buyers.Insurance Journal’s...
Sep 19 2025 // A copyright infringement lawsuit former Congressman George Santos filed against talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and ABC was properly dismissed by a lower court judge, an appeals court said Monday.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of...
Sep 18 2025 // The U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday said it would allow companies seeking to go public to require that investors resolve claims of fraud or other false statements through arbitration rather than court litigation,...
Sep 17 2025 // One of the nation’s first doctors accused of illegally providing care to transgender youth under GOP-led bans was found to have not violated the law, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office says, nearly a...
Sep 17 2025 // An auto parts manufacturer with a facility in Plymouth, Michigan, violated federal law when it refused to allow an older, female worker with a disability to re-enter its apprenticeship program, the U.S. Equal Employment...
Sep 17 2025 // Tesla Inc. reached a confidential deal to resolve a lawsuit by the family of a teenager who was killed in a 2019 California crash involving a Model 3 on Autopilot.The settlement disclosed in court filings marks the latest...
Sep 16 2025 // Interventional Pain Management Associates (IPMA), a Mountain Home, Arkansas pain management clinic, and Baxter Regional Medical Center, a nonprofit hospital, will pay $350,000 and furnish other relief to settle a...
Sep 16 2025 // U.S. President Donald Trump sued the New York Times, four of its reporters, and publisher Penguin Random House for at least $15 billion on Monday, claiming defamation and libel, and citing reputational damage, a Florida...
Sep 15 2025 // A judge has rejected an attempt by the state of Georgia and a local development agency to force people who unsuccessfully sued to block an electric vehicle plant to pay the government’s legal fees.State government...
Sep 15 2025 // The owner of Rolling Stone, Billboard and Variety sued Google on Friday, alleging the technology giant’s AI summaries use its journalism without consent and reduce traffic to its websites.The lawsuit by Penske Media...
Sep 15 2025 // AMP Ltd. has agreed to pay A$120 million ($80 million) to settle a class action alleging the financial group charged excessive fees on some pension accounts for more than a decade.The in-principle agreement relates to fees...
Sep 15 2025 // American Multi-Cinema (AMC), a nationwide movie theatre chain, violated federal law when it forced an employee with a disability to leave his job, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a...
Sep 12 2025 // California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in support urging the court to affirm an employee’s right to sue Liberty University for sex-based...
Sep 12 2025 // Uber Technologies Inc. was sued by the US Justice Department over claims that the ride-sharing giant discriminates against people with physical disabilities in violation of federal law.The department’s civil rights...