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 »
A new lawsuit is accusing American Airlines of “blatant and egregious racial discrimination” after eight African Americans were removed from a flight last January for seemingly no legitimate reason. The lawsuit, which was filed late last month in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, names... Read More »
TikTok is facing another lawsuit, this time from the Utah Division of Consumer Protection, that alleges that the popular video-sharing app "created a virtual strip club" that made it possible for young users to be sexually exploited. The complaint argues that adults on the app were allowed to send virtual... Read More »
The U.S. Congress reauthorized the Trafficking Victims Protection and Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) in 2022. It “reauthorizes, updates, and expands” federal programs and efforts to address domestic trafficking” to better serve victims. Even the new Act, however, cannot offer immediate help or give the women in a civil lawsuit (Does 1-10)... Read More »
A joint effort lawsuit has been filed against the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) and the Adult and Prison Education Resources workgroup (APER) over allegations that correctional facilities in the state are violating federal and state laws because they are not providing special education and related services to students with... Read More »
Regional supermarket chain Stew Leonard's is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after a customer died from a food allergy because she ate a cookie that was improperly labeled. The new lawsuit was filed in Superior Court in Waterbury, Connecticut, by the family of the customer, Órla Baxendale, and accuses the... Read More »
Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing a seventh sexual assault lawsuit. This newest accusation comes from a woman who says she was victimized by Combs three decades ago when she was a college student in New York City. The plaintiff, April Lampros, filed her lawsuit in Manhattan Court earlier... Read More »
A California school district has agreed to pay a former teacher $360,000 after the teacher refused to use a student’s preferred pronouns because of her religious beliefs. In her lawsuit, the teacher also took issue with student gender identity policies that kept her from communicating with parents about a student’s... Read More »
Canadian seafood giant Cooke Inc. of St. John, New Brunswick, along with American company Omega Protein, Alpha VesselCo Holdings LLC, and others are facing a $2 billion lawsuit over claims that the company violated the American Fisheries Act (AFA) of 1998 and the Jones Act of 1920. Under these laws,... Read More »
The family of a deceased 14-year-old has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines after their child died during an in-flight emergency in 2022. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Greenidge was flying home to New York City with his family from a summer vacation in Honduras when he suddenly lost consciousness and went into... Read More »
Tesla is facing yet another lawsuit over its autonomous driving technology after a Colorado man was killed in a fiery crash when his Tesla veered off the road and drove into a tree. The crash happened in 2022 when 33-year-old Hans Von Ohain was behind the wheel of his Tesla... Read More »
The family of a high school baseball player has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against their son’s school after the teen was fatally struck in the head during batting practice. The lawsuit was filed by the teen’s parents, David and Yamira Medina, in Georgia’s Hall County Superior Court against Gainesville... Read More »
