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The Supreme Court has ruled to allow a lawsuit against gunmaker Remington Arms to move forward. The court order lets a survivor and relatives of nine victims of the Sandy Hook massacre to pursue their claims. The lawsuit claims that...Read More →

Several Mcdonald’s workers and labor groups have filed a class-action lawsuit against the fast-food chain over claims of widespread sexual harassment in its restaurants. The lawsuit argues that Mcdonald’s has failed to address a systematic problem of harassment. “McDonald’s, one...Read More →

Jessie Vernon has filed a lawsuit against the Muncie Police Department, claiming police officers used excessive force during his arrest. The lawsuit stems from an incident that occurred on June 9, 2018 near Gharkey and Jackson Streets in Muncie, Indiana....Read More →

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against a Sprint authorized retailer in Sacramento, claiming the company didn’t do enough to protect a teen female employee from sexual assault by a manager. According to the lawsuit, after...Read More →

State Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump must pay $2 million to a charity to settle a lawsuit that claimed he and his family illegally managed his charitable foundation. Former New York Attorney General Barbara...Read More →

Melissa Kilpatrick, a former recovery court counselor, has filed a sexual disrimination lawsuit against Rutherford County Mayor Bill Ketron for promoting a less-qualified applicant instead of her. According to the lawsuit, Ketron selected Steve Irwin as the Probation and Recovery...Read More →

Kimberly Barnes has filed a lawsuit against Urban Air Adventure Park after her 10-year-old son fell from a zipline and suffered serious injuries. Barnes let her son go to Urban Air Adventure Park in Lakeland, Florida on Sept. 1 to...Read More →

Several hair and makeup artists have filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota Board of Cosmetologist Examiners to get rid of a state law that forbids them from styling hair and applying makeup at weddings and other special events. Last December,...Read More →

Breann Lasley has filed a lawsuit against the Utah emergency dispatch company, Priority Dispatch Corp. after they failed to send police to her home during an invasion. On Sept. 23, 2015, Breann and her sister Kayli Lasley were attacked and...Read More →

Shannon Phillips, a former regional director at Starbucks, has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the company, alleging she was fired just for being white. Phillips says that the company started discriminating against her after a highly publicized arrest of...Read More →

Jennifer Flores has filed a lawsuit against the New York Police Department, claiming police refused to give her sanitary products while in custody for 13 hours. The lawsuit stems back to an incident that occurred in October 2016. Flores saw...Read More →

St. Louis County Police Sergeant, Keith Wildhaber, who claimed the department discriminated against him for being gay, was awarded $19 million in a lawsuit. Wildhaber filed the lawsuit against the St. Louis County Police Department in 2017 after he was...Read More →

Benjamin Marshall, who was slugged and slammed to the ground by a police officer on a Brooklyn subway platform, plans to file a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department. According to the lawsuit, Marshall, who is 15 years...Read More →

Maia Emmons-Boring has filed a lawsuit against a Colorado fertility doctor, claiming that he used his own sperm to impregnate her mother almost 40 years ago. Emmons-Boring said that she realized the father she’d grown up with wasn’t her biological...Read More →

Seventeen current and former Flint employees have filed a lawsuit against the Flint Police Department, alleging four counts of race discrimination, racial discrimination failure to hire, retaliation and sexual harassment. The plaintiffs claim that they were either demoted, discriminated against...Read More →

A flight attendant for Southwest Airlines has filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming she saw two pilots hide a camera in the bathroom on a 2017 flight. According to the lawsuit, Renee Steinaker saw an iPad streaming video from...Read More →

President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has plans to file a lawsuit against CNN, accusing the news source of biased reporting. “Never in the history of this country has a President been the subject of such a sustained barrage of unfair,...Read More →

Daniel Pantaleo, who was fired in August for causing the death of Eric Gardner, has filed a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department in hopes of getting his job back. Police Commissioner James O’Neill fired Pantaleo for using...Read More →

Rose McGowan has filed a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and two of his former lawyers, claiming that they attempted to silence her and ruin her career before she accused him of rape. According to the lawsuit, Weinstein and his former...Read More →

The father of a 13-year-old girl has filed a lawsuit against an Aurora psychiatric facility after his daughter was sexually assaulted by an 18-year-old man in the bathroom at the Aurora Public Library. The lawsuit claims that both 18-year-old Cody...Read More →

A woman identified as Jane Doe has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, alleging that an ICE agent threatened her with deportation and death and sexually assaulted her for several...Read More →

The Elgin Area School District U-46 board has settled a lawsuit with the family of a boy who was beaten so badly by a classmate that he was left unconscious. The lawsuit stems back to an incident that occurred in...Read More →

Disney requested that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge block a pay discrimination lawsuit that was filed by a group of female employees, from recieving class-action status. The lawsuit, which was filed in April on belalf of two women, claimed...Read More →

The city of Portland has agreed to settle a lawsuit for $10,000 that was filed by a woman who claimed police assaulted her during a protest in October 2016. According to the lawsuit, Patricia Barger was just watching the demonstration...Read More →

Three of the country’s biggest drug distributors and one drug manufacturer have agreed to a $260 million settlement for their part in the opioid epidemic. McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health Inc. and AmerisourceBergen Corp. will pay a combined $215 million while...Read More →

The family members of Allan Feliz, who was shot and killed as he drove away from police trying to arrest him, plan to file a lawsuit against the Bronx Police Department. The incident occurred Thursday in the Bronx. Feliz, who...Read More →

Maria Alves, who was fired from Boston University after asking for additional medical leave for postpartum depression, has won $182,000 in a lawsuit. Alves had severe emotional difficulties after the birth of her son three years ago. She had to...Read More →

Natalie Simms has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Antonio after she was subjected to a public vaginal cavity search during which her tampon was pulled out. The incident occurred on Aug. 8, 2016 as Simms sat on...Read More →

A new lawsuit claims that two Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigators showed “inhumane indifference” to the safety of murdered Crystal Lake boy AJ Freund. According to the lawsuit, Carlos Acosta, a child protection specialist for DCFS, and...Read More →

Manal Abdelmalek, a professor of medicine at Duke, has filed a lawsuit against the university, accusing them of gender and ethnic discrimination. According to the lawsuit, Abdelmalek, who immigrated to the United States as a child from Egypt, had been...Read More →

Several news outlets, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch have filed a lawsuit against the Virginia Department of Corrections to make executions viewable to the public from start to finish. Although several steps in execution by lethal injection have always been private...Read More →

U.S. District Judge, Deborah Chasanow, decided to dismiss a psychotherapist’s lawsuit that tried to challenge Maryland’s ban on treating minors with conversion therapy. Judge Chasanow said that stopping conversion therapy on minors doesn’t stop psychotherapists from expressing their personal views...Read More →

Spencer Erickson has filed a lawsuit against several Lakewood police officers, claiming they ordered a K-9 attack that nearly killed him. The lawsuit stems from an incident that occurred on Sept. 21, 2018. Police officers went to Erickson’s home to...Read More →

A group of parents have filed a lawsuit against several hospitals in Illinois after they were subjected to Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigations into allegations of medical neglect after declining Vitamin K shots for their newborn babies....Read More →

The mother of Birendra Thakuri, who appeared to be in the middle of a mental breakdown when he was fatally shot by a police officer, has filed a lawsuit against the city of Westminster and officer Steven Bare. The lawsuit...Read More →

Ulku Rowe has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Google, alleging that the company hired her at a lower level than she deserved and paid her less than male peers. Rowe was hired at Google in the Cloud platform division as...Read More →

Danny Terry, who has been convicted of dealing drugs, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Muncie Police Department, claiming that a police officer severely injured him while he was serving as an informant. In September 2017, Terry was arrested...Read More →

The ACLU of Florida, Southern Legal Counsel and pro bono attorney Andy Pozzuto have filed a lawsuit against the city of Ocala to call into question the city’s policies for banning homeless people from sleeping in public areas. The lawsuit...Read More →

Paula Speer has filed filed a lawsuit against Neutron Holdings, Ninebot and Segway after she suffered a traumatic brain injury and other injuries when she was thrown off a Lime scooter on June 14. Speer said that she doesn’t have...Read More →

The family of Lucinda Rondon-Stanley, who was struck and killed by a minivan last week in Deerfield, have filed a lawsuit against the driver and his company. According to the lawsuit, Rondon-Stanley picked up a cake Friday at Deerfields Bakery...Read More →

Shannon Caknipe, a former Jackson County 911 dispatcher, has filed a lawsuit against the county, claiming they did nothing to stop the sexual harassment she faced at work. Caknipe began working as a dispatcher for Jackson County in 2008 and...Read More →

Alison Turkos has filed a lawsuit against Lyft, claiming she was kidnapped at gunpoint and raped by her Lyft driver two years ago in New York City. According to the lawsuit, Turkos first felt something was wrong when her driver...Read More →

Several pets stores in Maryland have filed a lawsuit to block a state law that will prevent them from selling commercially bred dogs and cats. Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, signed the legislation into law in April 2018. The first...Read More →

The parents of a first-grade girl have filed a lawsuit against Hoover City Schools in Alabama, alleging they didn’t do anything to stop their daughter from being sexually assaulted by her classmates. According to the lawsuit, a group of first-grade...Read More →

Four women have filed a lawsuit against Michael Klusmeyer, a former Glenview Dialysis Center manager, alleging he filmed them while they undressed and used the bathroom at the facility. According to the lawsuit, Klusmeyer put a motion-activated camera in the...Read More →

Sarah Andrews has filed a $3 million lawsuit against Disneyworld, claiming she suffered a serious head injury while getting off the Space Mountain ride. The lawsuit stems back to an incident that occurred in December 2017. Andrews was riding Space...Read More →

Corrionne Lawrence, a former Cuyahoga County inmate, has filed a lawsuit against Cuyahoga County and several corrections officers, alleging that officers beat him, threatened to hang him and make it look like a suicide. According to the lawsuit, the beatings...Read More →

The Goddard Public School District in Kansas plans to file a lawsuit against the e-cigarette and vaping industry in hopes of stopping the health crisis caused by e-cigarettes and vaping among children and teenagers. The lawsuit is expected to be...Read More →

A family has filed a lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis and its police department, claiming that police permanently wounded their two service dogs and then tried to hide it. The lawsuit stems back to an incident that occurred on...Read More →

Britney Taylor has filed a lawsuit against New England Patriots player Antonio Brown, claiming he raped her on three separate occasions. Taylor, who used to be Brown’s trainer, said Brown exposed his penis to her and then forcibly grabbed and...Read More →

Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax has filed a defamation lawsuit against CBS News, claiming that the network published false statements by two women who said he sexually assaulted them. The lawsuit stems from accusations from two separate women. One of the...Read More →

Cheryl Weimar, an inmate at the Lowell Correctional Institution, has filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections, claiming she was beaten nearly to death by prison guards. The incident occurred on August 21. Weimar was asked to clean...Read More →

Two former students have filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, alleging they didn’t do anything to stop a former professor from assaulting, bullying and raping them. According to the lawsuit, Gary Gang Xu specifically targeted female...Read More →

The mother of a female sixth-grade student has filed a lawsuit against Newport Independent Schools in Kentucky, alleging that they didn’t protect her daughter from her teacher’s sexual advances. According to the lawsuit, Stephen Loder, who resigned from Newport Independent...Read More →

Several Chick-fil-A supporters have filed a lawsuit against the city of San Antonio for banning the fast food chain from opening up shop in a local airport. In March, six members of the San Antonio City Council denied the inclusion...Read More →

Manuel Torres has filed a lawsuit against a lawsuit against the Lee County Sheriff’s office, claiming he was fired because he refused to train a new female hire because his religious beliefs do not let him work alone with females....Read More →

A woman has filed a lawsuit against Chicago banker Thomas Kane, accusing him of drugging her drink and sexually assaulting her while she was on a trip to Italy. According to the lawsuit, Kane met Sahra Ilsa days before the...Read More →

Three environmental groups have filed a lawsuit in an effort to stop a government program that kills predators, including coyotes, mountain lions and bears, in ways the groups claim are cruel and ineffective. The lawsuit challenges a U.S. Department of...Read More →

The mother and maternal grandparents of Connor Kerner, who is accused of a double murder, are facing a lawsuit. The mother of one of the murder victims, 19-year-old Molley Lanham, filed the lawsuit, claiming that Kerner’s grandparents, Christine and Gerald...Read More →

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against a Minnesota payroll company on behalf of Shannon Enstad, who alleges she was fired because she had to use crutches after a knee surgery. In February 2018, Enstad tore...Read More →

Fourteen people have filed a lawsuit against Lyft, claiming the ride-hailing company fails to protect passengers against sexual assault and sexual harrassment. According to the lawsuit, Lyft knew that drivers were sexually assaulting female passengers as early as 2015, but...Read More →

Jamey Lamont Wilkins, an inmate at the Nash County Jail, has filed a lawsuit against the jail. He claims the conditions at the jail violate his constitutional rights. Wilkins says that conditions at the Nash County Jail are “beyond deplorable.”...Read More →

Rachel Hollis, who is deaf, has plans to file a lawsuit against Burger King after she was allegedly denied service at the drive-thru window. In August, Hollis said that she pulled up to the drive-thru window of a Burger King...Read More →

Chelsey Glasson, who used to work for Google, says she plans to file a lawsuit against the company for allegedly discriminating against her while she was pregnant. Glasson wrote a memo earlier this month explaining why she was leaving Google...Read More →

Thomas McCullough has filed a lawsuit against Juul Labs, alleging that the e-cigarette giant got his teenage son hooked on e-cigarettes. According to the lawsuit, Juul Labs could have developed a product with lower levels of nicotine that was not...Read More →

Judge Thad Balkman ruled Monday that Johnson & Johnson must pay $572 million for its role in creating an opioid crisis in Oklahoma. According to state attorneys, approximately 6,000 people died from opioid overdoses in Oklahoma since 2000. Johnson &...Read More →

Elaina Sorrentino has filed a lawsuit against N.Y. Be Well Medical, alleging that she was sexually abused by a physical therapist who worked there. According to the lawsuit, Sorrentino went into N.Y. Be Well Medical for a back injury three...Read More →

The city of Dunedin, Florida has decided to drop their lawsuit against a woman who owed more than $100,000 in code enforcement fines at a house she didn’t own anymore. Kristi Allen was fined $103,559 for overgrown vegetation and a...Read More →

The ACLU of Maine has filed a lawsuit to challenge Yarmouth, Maine’s ban on town employees running for office. The lawsuit argues that the change violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Zachary Heiden, legal director for the ACLU...Read More →

Tiffany Griffin and Chad Greaves have filed a lawsuit against Bryn Mawr Hospital, accusing them misplacing the remains of their miscarried baby. When Griffin was just 18 weeks pregnant, she found out that her baby wasn’t going to make it....Read More →

Elizabeth Clark was awarded $3.2 million against her Army officer ex-husband and his girlfriend in a revenge-porn lawsuit. Clark alleged that her ex-husband Adam Clark posted a topless photo of her Facebook and to the Kik dating and hookup app...Read More →

The family of an Evanston Township High School student who claims she was sexually assaulted by two security guards have filed a lawsuit against the school. According to the lawsuit, the security guards made inappropriate cell phone calls and text...Read More →

Five people who were in the middle of a police brawl at Marcy Houses housing in Brooklyn plan to file a lawsuit against the city and NYPD. The lawsuit stems from an incident that occurred around 11 p.m. on Saturday...Read More →

Dante Trice and Angela Washington have filed a lawsuit against the Pearland Independent School District in Texas after faculty members allegedly coloring in their son J.T.’s fade haircut with a black Sharpie marker. According to the lawsuit, the 13-year-old boy...Read More →

Three women have filed lawsuits against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, claiming that he raped them or subjected them to other forced sex acts. The women explained in separate lawsuits how Epstein entered their lives and changed them forever. They claimed he...Read More →

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and other civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for allegedly providing inadequate medical and mental health care at migrant detention facilities. According to the lawsuit, ICE...Read More →

Three former servers have filed a lawsuit against The Chimes, alleging that managers and owners of the restaurant pressured them to work without pay for multiple hours every week. The lawsuit filed by Karly Kyzar, Sarah Little and Elizabeth Pruitt...Read More →

California, Oregon, Maine and Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to challenge a new law that could deny green cards to immigrants receiving public assistance. The new rules, which are set to take effect in October, are expected...Read More →

Uber seems to be in the news constantly, either due to new initiatives, corporate scandals, or political developments. Presently, a California initiative is working its way through the legislature that would make “gig-economy” workers, like Uber drivers, protected under existing...Read More →

Avigail Diveroli has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines, alleging that they confined her emotional support dog in a bathroom. Diveroli, who claims she suffers from severe anxiety and requires an emotional support animal, said she called the airline twice...Read More →

The parents of an austistic boy who lived at Woods Services, a facility for the intellectually disabled, have filed a lawsuit against the facility, alleging their son was sexually assaulted by a fellow resident. The boy’s parents installed a camera...Read More →

Germany Greer, who stayed at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel this summer, filed a lawsuit against the establishment, alleging their negligence led to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that killed one person and sickened others. Greer got sick last month after photographing...Read More →

The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office in Illinois has filed a lawsuit against Juul Labs, claiming the company uses deceptive marketing techniques aimed at teens. Lake County State’s Attorney Michael G. Nerheim also said that Juul violated the Prevention of...Read More →

The family of a 91-year-old woman with dementia have filed a lawsuit against a suburban Chicago nursing home after a Snapchat video of two caregivers taunting the elderly woman came out. In December 2018, Margaret Collins’ family found out about...Read More →

The family of Kyle Plush, who died last year after getting trapped between the seats in his minivan, has filed a lawsuit against the city of Cincinnati, claiming there’s a serious problem with their 911 program. On April 10, 2018,...Read More →

Former competitive figure skater Adam Schmidt has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Olympic coach Richard Callaghan, alleging he repeatedly sexually abused him from 1999 to 2001, beginning when he was just 14 years old. This isn’t the first time Callaghan...Read More →

An Illinois mother has filed a lawsuit against the city of Country Club Hills and several police officers after nearly two dozen SWAT officers entered her home during a raid and shot her 12-year-old son in his bed. The lawsuit...Read More →

Jennifer and Joseph Cartellone have filed a lawsuit against the Institute for Reproductive Health and Christ Hospital, after the fertility clinic allegedly swapped Joseph’s sperm with the sperm of a stranger. The couple underwent fertility treatment fertility treatment in 1994...Read More →

Twenty-five property owners who rented condos through Keye Beach Rentals have filed a lawsuit against the parent company, Keye Real Estate after they sold a portion of their business to a man accused of embezzling thousands from clients. According to...Read More →

Hundreds of men have brought a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America, claiming they did nothing to stop sexual predators from abusing young boys for decades. Abused in Scouting, a group that attorneys founded to represent the victims of...Read More →

Dartmouth College agreed to pay nine women who alleged that they were sexually assaulted or harassed by their professors $14.4 million. According to the lawsuit, three Dartmouth professors who taught in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences coerced the...Read More →

Baltimore County has decided to settle a lawsuit for more than $1.1 million brought by the family of Tawon Boyd, who died days after an altercation with county police officers. The lawsuit stems from an incident that occurred on Sept....Read More →

The family of Jorge Olguin, who was killed by a security guard at a Red Bird apartment complex last year, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the building’s owners, the security guard and the security company that employs him....Read More →

Ronnie Hill, whose vehicle was struck by Ezekiel Elliott, has filed a $20 million lawsuit against the running back and the Dallas Cowboys. The car accident occurred in January 2017 when Elliott ran a red light and hit Hill’s vehicle....Read More →

Two former attorneys for the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans have filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the LSU Board of Supervisors. Katherine Muslow and Meredith Cunningham claim that they were paid unfairly for years. They said that...Read More →

Judge John Koeltl decided to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the Trump team over hacked Democratic National Committee documents, saying they, “Did not participate in any wrongdoing in obtaining the materials in the first place,” and didn’t have any legal...Read More →

A transgender woman in Oregon has filed a lawsuit against her insurance companies and employer, alleging that they discriminated against her for not paying for her facial feminization surgery. Christina Ketchman has already had sex reassignment surgery, hormone replacement therapy,...Read More →

Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a lawsuit against the state of Missouri to challenge its eight-week abortion ban. The law was signed in May and is set to take effect August 28. The law would...Read More →

The Texas Public Policy Foundation sent a notice to the Dallas city attorney office stating they plan to file a lawsuit against the city over its new paid sick leave law that will take effect on Aug. 1. The new...Read More →

U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman decided to dismiss Nick Sandmann’s $250 million lawsuit against the Washington Post on Friday. Sandmann filed the lawsuit after video of his encounter with a Native American man, Nathan Phillips, at a March for Life...Read More →