A New Jersey high school teacher has filed a $1 million defamation lawsuit accusing a student and her family of spreading explicit images taken from his private Instagram account and falsely linking him to allegations of sexual misconduct involving a student. Daniel Torsiello, a history teacher at Central Regional High... Read More »
A coalition of more than 20 states has sued the U.S. Department of Education over a new rule that narrows which graduate degree programs qualify for higher federal student loan limits. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Maryland, challenges a May 1 final rule issued by the Department of... Read More »
Social media companies, including Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube, have reached settlements with a Kentucky school district in one of the first cases selected to test a growing wave of lawsuits accusing major tech platforms of contributing to a youth mental health crisis through addictive social media design. The agreements... Read More »
A federal judge in Wisconsin has dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit seeking access to the state’s unredacted voter registration database, ruling that a Civil Rights Act provision dating back to the 1960s does not give the federal government authority to compel production of the records. In a decision... Read More »
A tenured Portland State University professor has filed a $7 million lawsuit against the university and its president, alleging she was falsely portrayed as aligned with terrorism after a video from an off-campus pro-Palestinian protest circulated online. The lawsuit, filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court by professor Yasmeen Hanoosh, accuses... Read More »
Live Nation has reached settlements with the families of two women killed in the 2023 mass shooting at Washington’s Beyond Wonderland music festival, resolving wrongful death claims just weeks before the case was set to go to trial.According to a notice filed in King County Superior Court, the estates of... Read More »
A California judge has ruled that the nonprofit organization Kars4Kids can no longer air its well-known advertising jingle in California after finding the company engaged in misleading advertising as part of an ongoing federal class action dispute. In a permanent injunction issued in Orange County Superior Court, the judge found... Read More »
TikTok influencer Gabbie Gonzalez has been charged in Los Angeles in an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting former Why Don’t We member Jack Avery.Gonzalez, 24, was arrested last week in Northern California before appearing in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday. Prosecutors allege she conspired to arrange the killing of Avery,... Read More »
A proposed class action filed in federal court in California accuses fast-fashion retailer Fashion Nova of violating federal telemarketing laws by allegedly sending promotional text messages to consumers before the legally permitted 8 a.m. cutoff.The lawsuit was filed in April by Alameda County resident Charleen Shavies in the Northern District... Read More »
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 »
