National rental home provider Invitation Homes has agreed to pay nearly $20 million to settle a lawsuit brought forward on behalf of the city of San Diego in California. The settlement was reached earlier this month and the U.S. The District Court for the Southern District of California is expected... Read More »
The parents of a teen driver who was involved in a car crash that turned deadly last year have been sentenced following guilty pleas on charges in connection with their son’s actions. Sean Smith, 40, and Deo Ramnarine, 43, are the parents of a 17-year-old boy who was behind the... Read More »
The Chino Valley Unified School District has filed a lawsuit against the state of California over a new law that would make it illegal for schools to notify the parents of a child who identifies as a gender, name, or pronoun that is different from what is listed on their... Read More »
Princeton University is facing a lawsuit that accuses the university of engaging in Title IX violations, among other wrongdoings. The lawsuit was filed on June 20 by an anonymous male student, “John Doe.” The lawsuit names the trustees of the university as defendants and accuses them of breach of contract,... Read More »
Shoe customizer Dominic Ciambrone, popularly known online and by his customers as The Shoe Surgeon, is facing a $60 million lawsuit from global footwear giant Nike. The lawsuit alleges that Ciambrone is using Nike's trademarks, selling counterfeit products, and has usurped the Nike brand through his work of creating custom... Read More »
Cities across the nation are evaluating the ordinances that impact the unhoused in their communities. Their efforts have been greenlit in part by a recent Supreme Court ruling that threatens to have a major impact on how cities manage the growing homelessness crisis, especially in hotbed areas like Los Angeles,... Read More »
In a one-of-a-kind lawsuit, a Parkland school shooting survivor has reached a civil settlement with the school shooter, granting the victim the rights to the shooter’s name, among other extraordinary awards. Anthony Borges was gunned down by his classmate, school shooter Nikolas Cruz, on Valentine's Day 2018 in Parkland, Florida’s... Read More »
A vacation to mark the start of summer turned into a nightmare after a couple was shocked and electrocuted while in a hot tub at a Mexico resort. Now, Lizzette Zambrano of El Paso County, Texas, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the resort and vacation rental companies Casago,... Read More »
A new lawsuit accuses the iconic 55-year-old Swamp Fox roller coaster at Family Kingdom Amusement Park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina of causing a man to become paralyzed from the neck down. The lawsuit, which was filed last week in the Horry County Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Court by the man's... Read More »
A Pittsburgh-based company that provides at-home rape kits for sexual abuse survivors is at the center of a new lawsuit filed by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. The lawsuit accuses the company of providing a false alternative to care and justice for survivors of sexual abuse. Attorney General Michelle... Read More »
A controversial new Louisiana law has prompted several civil liberties groups to join forces with plans to file a lawsuit challenging the law’s constitutionality. House Bill 71 was signed into law Wednesday by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry and will now require all public school classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities,... Read More »
The Dallas-based company Frontier Communications is facing at least six class action lawsuits after it was hit with a cyber data breach attack in April. The widespread attack resulted in the personally identifiable information (PII) of over 750,000 customers being stolen by the criminal ransomware group RansomHub. Nearly 90,000 of... Read More »
A proposed class action lawsuit is accusing Apple of underpaying over 12,000 female workers. The lawsuit was filed in state court in San Francisco by two women who worked at the company for over a decade. The women say that female workers in engineering, marketing, and AppleCare divisions were systematically... Read More »
Evanston, Illinois, made national news after it proposed a first-of-its-kind reparations program in 2021. This Chicago suburb is making news yet again after a new lawsuit says that the program is discriminatory to non-Black residents. The lawsuit was filed on May 23 by the conservative activist group Judicial Watch on... Read More »
Several families of victims of the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, have filed a lawsuit against FedEx and UPS for those companies’ alleged contribution to the tragic massacre. The lawsuit accuses the companies of acting as "illegal gun runners" to a juvenile because their services contributed to... Read More »
