A San Bernardino County school district has agreed to a $15.75 million settlement with the family of a student who died following an asthma attack while on campus. Thirteen-year-old Adilene Carrasco was a student at Mesa View Middle School in Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District when she suffered an asthma... Read More »
Wisconsin-based healthcare operator Forefront Dermatology has agreed to a $3.75 million settlement to end a class action lawsuit over a 2021 data breach. The organization operates a number of dermatology offices across the U.S. In 2021 a known ransomware group was able to exploit vulnerabilities within Forefront Dermatology’s network and... Read More »
It's a war of code and intellectual property rights in a recent lawsuit filed by GitHub programmers against GitHub, its parent company Microsoft, and a Microsoft tech partner OpenAI. In a first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit, GitHub programmers allege that the defendants violated open-source licensing because their code is being used... Read More »
Gaming graphics tech giant NVIDIA is at the center of a class action lawsuit that alleges poorly built gaming connector cables are melting, damaging both the connector cable and the gaming graphics card the cable attaches to. The lawsuit was filed by New York resident Lucas Genova last week and... Read More »
The parents of an eight-year-old boy who suffered a horrific fall after going up a popular rock climbing wall in Chicago’s Navy Pier are suing the operators of the rock climbing wall and other defendants. Erin and Gideon Brewer were visiting Chicago's Navy Pier from Grand Rapids, Michigan, on July... Read More »
In a one-of-a-kind unraveling, one of the nation's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, has filed for bankruptcy, is facing mounting lawsuits, and has customers wondering where their investments have gone and whether they’ll ever see their money again. At his peak, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF as he’s become known... Read More »
A Henderson, Tennessee, man has filed a lawsuit against the operators of a Christian Camp ten years after signing a confidential settlement with its operators, as reported by the Associated Press. Named in the lawsuit are the operators of the camp, including Kanakuk Ministries, Kanakuk CEO Joe White, Kanakuk Heritage... Read More »
Ohio’s Kent State University is at the center of a recently filed federal gender discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by the university’s only open transgender professor. According to the professor, the university violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. GPat Patterson is an assistant professor at... Read More »
The son of a man who was killed In a West Virginia helicopter crash in June is suing the company that operated the helicopter and others for wrongful death. Sixty-four-year-old Marvin Bledsoe was one of six passengers who died after the Vietnam-era Bell UH-1B “Huey” helicopter crashed roughly fifteen minutes... Read More »
Tech Giant Apple is facing a class action lawsuit because of its alleged misleading user privacy standards and the way in which they track users and their data. For years Apple has been outspoken about user privacy and the lengths they're willing to go to enable users to have control... Read More »
In a recent appellate court ruling, the rights of transgender women to participate in Miss United States of America LLC beauty pageants were challenged in what some activists have called a setback for the trans community. The U.S court of appeals for the ninth circuit has upheld a lower court’s... Read More »
Education technology company Chegg is at the center of a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit following four data breaches since 2017. These data breaches exposed sensitive information including the names and emails of tens of millions of customers and employees. Chegg has become a go-to online study source for students... Read More »
Six Flags is the subject of a class action lawsuit that alleges employees in states including Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey are owed unpaid wages from as far back as October 2016. The allegations include claims that employees were required to undergo security screenings and facility walkthroughs while off the... Read More »
After finalizing his deal with Twitter execs to purchase the company for what many have called an overvalued $44 billion, Elon Musk's first move as CEO was to clean house. Of the roughly 7,500 workers who were employed at Twitter before the takeover, nearly 3,700 have now found themselves suddenly... Read More »
An environmental group has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that endangered whales are at heightened risk of injury and death because of commercial net fishing off of the coast of California’s shores. The lawsuit was filed by the Center for... Read More »
