The Baton Rouge Police Department is facing a flurry of lawsuits accusing the department and select police officers of misconduct and abuse. The allegations come after reports of a police warehouse dubbed the “Brave Cave'' was used as a faux police precinct where individuals who were apprehended by police officers... Read More »
A data breach that targeted an Ohio-based insurance company has prompted multiple lawsuits including a class action lawsuit filed by victims who lost sensitive personal information following the data breach. One class action suit is seeking more than $9.9 million in damages. CareSource, the administrator of one of the nation’s... Read More »
Leading global aerospace company Boeing is at the center of several lawsuits that claim the company knew about the presence of toxic chemicals in its production plants but did little to protect workers. At least two Boeing employees say these toxins resulted in their children being born with birth defects. ... Read More »
Drivers of popular muscle cars, trucks, and SUVs equipped with a Hemi V8 engine are paying close attention to an ongoing lawsuit in which the plaintiffs are seeking class action certification. Known as the ‘Hemi tick,’ impacted vehicles make a loud ticking noise once the engine is turned over. As... Read More »
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and a former human resource officer, Amrit Mula, have reached a settlement in a whistleblower lawsuit filed last year. The lawsuit sparked several probes from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Lilly and Mula had been actively working on finalizing... Read More »
A Nebraska woman who underwent a double mastectomy when she was just 16 years old is suing the medical facility, doctors, and nurses who helped perform the operation. Luka Hein, Now 21, was born female but underwent a double mastectomy during her transition into a transgender male. Luka Hein, Now... Read More »
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against electric car maker Tesla. The lawsuit accuses Tesla of violating workplace discrimination laws after Black staffers in Fremont, California, production facilities were subjected to stereotyping and a... Read More »
A Georgia man has filed a lawsuit claiming facial recognition technology led to his wrongful arrest after he was accused of theft in a state he’s never visited. 29-year-old Randal Quran Reid, who prefers going by Quran, was pulled over on the side of a busy Georgia interstate as he... Read More »
The family of 19-year-old Miya Marcano is suing the Orange County, Florida, Sheriff's Office and two of its members, claiming civil rights violations in the way they handled the investigation into Marcano’s death. The family filed their lawsuit in the Orange County Ninth Judicial Circuit Court two years after Marcano’s... Read More »
The family of a woman who died in a Belk restroom while at work has filed a lawsuit against the department store a year after the woman's death. On September 22, 2022, 63-year-old Bessie Durham was found dead inside the Columbia, S.C., department store’s public restroom. An investigation revealed that... Read More »
On August 31, 17-year-old Black student Darryl George was reprimanded with an in-school suspension for wearing his natural hair in twisted braids. Today, his family is suing the state over what they say was a violation of their son’s civil rights. The federal civil rights lawsuit was filed over the... Read More »
A string of newly filed lawsuits accuses the state of Alabama of failing to educate foster children who have special needs. Instead, students with special needs were segregated from their peers and were subjected to an inadequate educational experience by being placed in specialized treatment facilities. The lawsuits are the... Read More »
The United Auto Workers union (UAW) announced on Friday that it would be expanding strike demonstrations after Detroit’s “Big Three” failed to reach a deal with union leaders. The announcement came Friday morning from UAW President Shawn Fain, after automakers GM, Ford, and Stellantis failed to reach an agreement over... Read More »
A federal court jury in Oxford, Mississippi, has rejected a $20 million civil lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who was fatally shot by police officers while they were serving a search warrant. In the early morning of July 24, 2017, Southaven officers Zachary Durden and Samuel Maze... Read More »
The family of a North Carolina man is suing Google and others after he drove his vehicle off of a collapsed bridge while following his Google Maps directions. The family is accusing Google of negligence, saying it was warned about the bridge’s collapse but did not update its navigation system... Read More »
