Tennessee officials agreed to pay $835,000 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a retired police officer who spent more than a month in jail after authorities arrested him over a Facebook meme about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.The settlement resolves claims filed by 61-year-old Larry Bushart against... Read More »
Massachusetts is facing a constitutional lawsuit over allegations that its school district system reinforces racial segregation by limiting many Black and Latino students to under-resourced schools.Lawyers for Civil Rights and Brown’s Promise filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in Suffolk County state court on behalf of nine students and four community... Read More »
The Walt Disney Company is facing a $5 million class action lawsuit alleging Disneyland and Disney California Adventure failed to properly disclose the use of facial recognition technology at park entrances and collected sensitive biometric data from visitors, including children, without consent. The lawsuit, filed May 15 in federal court... Read More »
A federal appeals court has revived part of a lawsuit against American Airlines over the death of a 14-year-old passenger during a flight from Honduras to Florida, allowing claims tied to an allegedly malfunctioning onboard defibrillator to move forward toward trial. A May 14 decision from the U.S. Court of... Read More »
A federal judge in California dismissed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI on Monday after a jury found he waited too long to pursue claims accusing the company of departing from its founding nonprofit mission. The ruling followed a three-week trial in Oakland focused on OpenAI’s corporate structure, its partnership with... Read More »
Luxury fashion label Chrome Hearts has withdrawn its copyright infringement lawsuit against Neil Young and his backing band over the use of the name Chrome Hearts, ending a legal dispute that raised questions about trademark rights, artist branding, and the increasingly crowded overlap between fashion and music merchandising. According to... Read More »
Former employees of Spirit Airlines have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the airline of violating the federal WARN Act by abruptly shutting down operations and laying off thousands of workers without advance notice. The lawsuit, filed May 12 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York,... Read More »
Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape retrial ended in a mistrial Friday after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on a rape charge involving hairstylist and aspiring actor Jessica Mann, whose allegations were part of Weinstein’s 2020 Manhattan conviction. Judge Curtis Farber declared the mistrial after the Manhattan jury twice... Read More »
The Supreme Court on Thursday kept current nationwide access to the abortion medication mifepristone in place, blocking lower court limits that would have required in-person doctor visits and halted distribution through the mail while the case moves forward. Louisiana initially filed a lawsuit seeking to roll back Food and Drug... Read More »
Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges tied to the 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge as Maryland finalized a $2.25 billion settlement with the owner and operator of the cargo ship involved in the disaster. The charges announced Tuesday accuse Singapore-based Synergy Marine Pte Ltd., its affiliated maritime... Read More »
