A Minnesota woman who was hospitalized with sepsis after eating a Chipotle burrito bowl has sued the restaurant chain, claiming contaminated jalapeño peppers caused her illness during a multistate salmonella outbreak linked to 345 cases.Kristen Behne filed the lawsuit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.... Read More »
More than three decades after Tupac Shakur was gunned down in one of hip-hop's most notorious unsolved crimes, the man accused of orchestrating the killing is finally set to face a jury. Duane "Keffe D" Davis will see his long-delayed murder trial begin Monday morning with jury selection in a... Read More »
The woman accused of stalking Lindsey Buckingham for years and claiming the Fleetwood Mac guitarist is her biological father was declared incompetent to stand trial on Thursday, following a court-ordered mental health evaluation conducted while she remained in custody.Los Angeles County Mental Health Court Judge Robert S. Harrison delivered the... Read More »
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has agreed to pay $10.5 million to a motorist who suffered permanent brain injuries when a steel truck part crashed through his windshield on the George Washington Bridge.Joseph Rosario was driving west toward New Jersey on the bridge’s upper level on... Read More »
OpenAI and Statsig have agreed to pay $1.2 million to the federal government and reserve up to $2 million for potential back pay to resolve Justice Department investigations into alleged discrimination against U.S. workers during recruitment for permanent positions.Federal investigators said the companies placed an added burden on U.S. workers... Read More »
Taylor Fresh Foods has sued the former president of its Tennessee subsidiary, his wife, a purported contractor and the contractor’s principal, accusing them of diverting more than $32 million through false invoices, unauthorized payroll and personal expense reimbursements.The lawsuit, filed June 5 in federal court in Nashville, names Brian Thure,... Read More »
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is asking a state court to order the return of a 15-year-old U.S. citizen from Mexico after child welfare workers allegedly drove him to a Texas border crossing and directed him to enter the country alone.Filed July 28 in the First Judicial District Court... Read More »
California labor officials have secured a $2.75 million settlement for 24 former Anaheim Marriott employees after finding that the hotel failed to offer available jobs to qualified workers in seniority order following pandemic-related layoffs.In June 2022, the Labor Commissioner opened an investigation after Unite Here Local 11 submitted reports on... Read More »
A federal judge in Maryland has dismissed a proposed class action accusing major nuclear power companies of using shared compensation data to suppress worker pay, finding that the workers did not plausibly allege an agreement to fix wages and brought their claims outside the federal antitrust deadline.The lawsuit sought to... Read More »
A Michigan woman has filed a proposed nationwide class action against Taco Bell and several Taylor Farms companies, alleging that contaminated lettuce served by the fast food chain caused Cyclospora infections during a multi-state outbreak.The complaint, filed Monday by Dawn Koss in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District... Read More »
Ariana Madix, the former "Vanderpump Rules" personality who now hosts "Love Island USA," has failed in her attempt to shut down a revenge porn and invasion of privacy lawsuit brought against her by ex-castmate Raquel Leviss. A California appellate court ruled against Madix on Wednesday, declining to reverse a lower... Read More »
Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected two proposed constitutional amendments Tuesday that would have raised the approval threshold for citizen-led amendments and required lawmakers to phase out the state’s individual income tax.Amendment 4 failed by about 80 percent to 20 percent, while Amendment 5 received about 16 percent support in the August... Read More »
A federal judge has dismissed Alex Murdaugh’s lawsuit seeking $600,000 from former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill, ruling that her interference with his murder trial did not cause the legal expenses he sought to recover.U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel found Wednesday that Murdaugh lacked standing to pursue the... Read More »
A federal judge has reluctantly dismissed the final prosecution arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after the Justice Department obtained the removal of eight Oath Keepers’ convictions and asked to abandon the charges.U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta granted the government’s request on August 4 and... Read More »
New Mexico sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday, asking a federal judge to intervene after the agency refused to provide unredacted records sought for the state’s renewed criminal investigation into alleged sexual abuse at Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch.The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the... Read More »
