The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that four pipeline companies accused of harassment and retaliation against employees have agreed to a $1.75 million settlement to end a 2019 lawsuit. The companies operate in Texas and New Mexico and have built and maintained oil and gas pipelines throughout the... Read More »
Medtronic Inc, an insulin pump manufacturer, is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after a consumer died as a result of using their pump. The lawsuit was brought by a plaintiff in Nevada on behalf of herself and her deceased husband. The lawsuit is one of several wrongful death claims against... Read More »
After a report unveiled a computer glitch that impacted millions of credit scores, credit reporting agency Equifax is at the center of a class-action lawsuit. Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that the credit bureau was responsible for the technical glitch that caused millions of individuals to receive... Read More »
The justice department has announced that it secured a $293,000 judgment against the City of Springfield, Illinois. The judgment followed a jury trial in which the city stood accused of discriminating against people with disabilities. The two-day jury trial was the culmination of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. against... Read More »
The family of Gabby Petito has filed a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Moab Police Department. The family alleges that officers and the police department failed to properly assess the situation when they pulled over the 22-year-old and her fiance, Brian Laundrie. In failing to properly investigate the... Read More »
Eastern Iowa’s Linn-Mar Community School District is at the center of a hot-button lawsuit that challenges the district’s transgender and gender identity policy through the district's newly-adopted Gender Support Plan. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court by a conservative parent group called Parents Defending Education. This parent group... Read More »
The Department of Justice has announced federal charges against four officers involved in the death of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor. On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the former and current police officers will be made to answer for their actions that led to Taylor's death. Taylor was in... Read More »
In the span of under 48 hours in jury deliberations, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay a total of $49.3 million over the lies he told regarding the nation's deadliest school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. Jones was ordered by an Austin,... Read More »
A New Jersey family is suing two funeral homes for $50 million after the funeral home they used buried the wrong body. The family of 93-year-old Kyung Ja Kim is suing Central Funeral Home of New Jersey and Blackley Funeral Home and Cremation Services Inc., both of which are run... Read More »
Philadelphia's popular children's theme park, Sesame Place, is at the center of a controversial lawsuit that has grabbed national headlines. The lawsuit was brought forward by a Baltimore family that was visiting the park on June 18th. Leslie Mac was behind the camera recording her four-year-old daughter and her daughter’s... Read More »
Two women who were brutally attacked with boiling water by a Taco Bell manager and another employee are suing the popular fast food chain for over $1 million in damages. The lawsuit was filed on July 13th and names Brittany Davis and her niece C.T as plaintiffs. C.T.’s identity has... Read More »
The family of a 14-year-old girl is suing the Los Angeles Police Department after a stray bullet struck and killed the teen. The incident took place just two days before Christmas 2021 after police were responding to a 911 call about a belligerent man in a store. Valentina Orellana-Peralta was... Read More »
As cryptocurrency continues to make a name for itself in social, financial, and economic industries, opportunists are finding new ways to reap illicit gains from novel assets. In a first-of-its-kind case in the crypto markets, the Department of Justice announced that it would be bringing charges against three men in... Read More »
The Department of Justice has announced the arrest of a man who ran a $10 million tech support fraud scheme. Vinoth Ponmaran, a 34-year-old Indian national, was arrested and accused of targeting at least 7,500 victims in a multimillion-dollar tech support fraud scheme. Many of Ponmaran’s victims were vulnerable individuals... Read More »
In an effort to curb fraudulent reviews that have tanked consumer confidence in the products they buy online, Amazon has announced it is suing the administrators of over 10,000 Facebook groups. Thousands of Amazon-related Facebook groups exist for the purpose of soliciting fake product reviews from real shoppers. Through these... Read More »
