All the headlines from our Lawsuits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 7 2024 // Karen Read is seeking to delay a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of her Boston police officer boyfriend until her criminal trial in connection with his death is done.The lawsuit filed last month blames the death...
Oct 7 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether it should be more difficult for workers from “majority backgrounds,” such as white or heterosexual people, to prove workplace discrimination claims.The...
Oct 7 2024 // As litigation and regulation increase around per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), insurance underwriting is tightening across lines. Insurance professionals who specialize in PFAS say insurers are mandating coverage...
Oct 4 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued TikTok on Thursday for sharing and selling minors’ personal information, violating a new state law that seeks to protect children who are active on social media, accusations...
Oct 4 2024 // The family of a man who was left permanently disabled after he was shot in the head during a road rage encounter in New Jersey, allegedly by an off-duty New York City police officer, has filed a lawsuit against the city...
Oct 3 2024 // Settlement checks related to Norfolk Southern’s disastrous 2023 derailment could be delayed up to two years now because an appeal of a federal judge’s decision last week to approve the $600 million deal has...
Oct 2 2024 // The road construction firm that employed six workers who were killed and another who was seriously injured in the collapse of Baltimore’s Key Bridge, along with its workers’ compensation carrier, have filed...
Oct 2 2024 // Stellantis’ 771 million euro ($854 million) London lawsuit against two safety equipment makers began on Tuesday, with the European carmaker arguing long-running cartels led to it being overcharged for roughly a...
Oct 2 2024 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas sued YouTube and parent company Alphabet on Monday, saying the video-sharing platform is made deliberately addictive and fueling a mental health crisis among youth in the state.Attorney...
Oct 2 2024 // A Black man alleges in a lawsuit that an Iowa trucking company fired him as a driver because he wouldn’t cut off his dreadlocks, the latest in a series of incidents across the country over an issue activists have...
Oct 2 2024 // The litigation-financing industry could see new demand from an increase in health care lawsuits, according to Christopher Bogart, chief executive officer of litigation funder Burford Capital Ltd.“There is such...
Oct 1 2024 // Minden Seafood, LLC, a seafood restaurant in Minden, Louisiana, violated federal law when it failed to stop a male worker from repeatedly sexually harassing a female employee and refused to rehire her after she quit, the...
Oct 1 2024 // Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk on Monday won the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing them of defrauding shareholders by overstating the effectiveness and safety of the automaker’s self-driving technology in order to boost...
Oct 1 2024 // The Pioneer tanker, sanctioned by the United States over its links to Russia-sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG), has passed through the Suez Canal with an LNG cargo, LSEG data showed on Monday.The source of the LNG and...
Sep 30 2024 // BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An appeals court has sent back part of a lawsuit brought by a protester of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, who alleged excessive force by law enforcement officers.Eric Poemoceah, of Oklahoma, filed...
Sep 30 2024 // A group of Baltimore longshoremen have sued the owner and manager of the ship that caused the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, arguing the companies should compensate them for wages lost while the port was closed in the...
Sep 27 2024 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An inmate who was beaten by an Arkansas police officer in the back of a patrol car filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the former officer and his police chief, accusing them of violating his...
Sep 27 2024 // A judge in South Dakota has thrown out a lawsuit brought by dozens of neighbors in a Rapid City-area subdivision whose homes were built above an old, underground mine linked to sinkholes in the neighborhood.Circuit Court...
Sep 27 2024 // Pero Family Farms Food Company, LLC, will pay $40,000 in compensatory damages and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit, the federal agency announced today.The...
Sep 27 2024 // The Pac-12 is suing the Mountain West over what it calls an unlawful and unenforceable “poaching penalty” that would cost the rebuilding conference more than $40 million for adding Boise State, Fresno State,...