Washington state’s child welfare agency, the Department of Children, Youth and Families, will pay $80 million to settle claims that it failed to protect two children who were left in the care of their biological parents despite repeated warnings about their safety.The two children at the center of the case,... Read More »
America’s Next Top Model creator and former host Tyra Banks has filed a lawsuit against Netflix over its recent docuseries Reality Check, alleging the streaming giant and the project’s filmmakers manipulated her interview footage to create a false and damaging portrayal of her role on the reality show.Banks says she... Read More »
A federal judge has issued a final ruling addressing attorney’s fees, one of the last unresolved issues in the legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.In a decision issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman ruled that Baldoni must pay certain legal fees incurred by Lively after his $400... Read More »
The family of Donald Maier, a Wisconsin inmate who died from dehydration and malnutrition while held in solitary confinement at Waupun Correctional Institution, has reached a $3.75 million settlement with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.Maier’s mother filed the wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit in April 2025 in federal court.... Read More »
Rapper Lil Wayne has secured a legal victory after a California judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing the rapper of assaulting a security guard and ordered the plaintiff and his attorney to pay more than $29,000 in sanctions.According to court documents, plaintiff Christian Carlos and his lawyer have been held jointly... Read More »
The U.S. Justice Department has cleared Paramount Skydance Corporation’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, concluding that the roughly $110 billion media merger is unlikely to harm competition or American consumers.The Antitrust Division announced the decision Friday after an eight-month investigation and did not require Paramount to sell assets, accept... Read More »
Seattle has agreed to pay $2.6 million to resolve a lawsuit brought by four female police officers who accused Seattle Police Department leaders of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and retaliation.The lawsuit, filed in 2024, named former Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz, former Assistant Chief Dan Nelson, and current Lt. John... Read More »
A federal judge has blocked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from continuing a state lawsuit against Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue, finding the organization was likely to prove the case was filed in retaliation for its work on behalf of Paxton’s U.S. Senate opponent.U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns issued a preliminary... Read More »
A Massachusetts jury has convicted Alvin Campbell on 21 sex crime counts after prosecutors said he posed as a rideshare driver to target women outside bars and other locations in the Boston area.The charges involved assaults committed between 2017 and 2019. Jurors found the 45-year-old guilty on 21 of 22... Read More »
A Florida man who says he was wrongly arrested after facial recognition software tied him to a child-luring investigation has sued the City of Jacksonville Beach, two law enforcement officers, and two Florida sheriffs in federal court.In a lawsuit filed June 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle... Read More »
