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Russia’s Baltika Sues Carlsberg Subsidiaries for Over $900M in Damages
Apr 1 2024 // Russia’s Baltika Breweries has sued four Carlsberg subsidiaries for damages amounting to 6.24 billion Danish crowns ($902 million), Russian court filings showed, as the two parties fight over the future of...
Canadian School Boards Sue Social Media Giants for Over C$4B in Damages
Apr 1 2024 // Four Canadian school boards have sought more than C$4 billion ($2.96 billion) in damages from social media firms such as Meta Platforms and Snap in a lawsuit, alleging that their products harmed students. The products are...
Handcuffed Colorado Man Stunned by Taser Settles Lawsuit for $1.5M
Apr 1 2024 // A man who was stunned with a Taser while handcuffed, including on his lip, has settled a federal lawsuit with a Colorado sheriff’s department for $1.5 million, his lawyers said. Kenneth Espinoza was arrested after he...
Michigan Man Sues After Losing Eye from Ghost Gun Incident
Apr 1 2024 // A 19-year-old Michigan man who lost his right eye after being shot with a firearm made from a ghost gun kit filed a lawsuit against his former best friend who accidentally shot him and the Pennsylvania company that sold...
J&J to Pay $75 Million to Settle Mississippi’s Baby Powder Suit
Mar 28 2024 // Johnson & Johnson will pay $75 million to settle a consumer protection lawsuit filed by Mississippi over the company’s talc-based baby powder, according to people familiar with the matter, resolving litigation in...
Boston Settles Wrongful Death Suit Over Police Shooting of Mentally Ill Man for $4.6M
Mar 28 2024 // The city of Boston will pay about $4.6 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the police killing of a mentally ill man in 2016. The mother of Terrence Coleman, 31, filed the federal lawsuit six years ago....
Mother of 8-Year-Old ‘Violently Sucked’ Into Houston Hotel Pool Files Wrongful Death Suit
Mar 28 2024 // The mother of an 8-year-old Texas girl who died over the weekend after being “violently sucked” into a gap in a hotel’s pool system has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the hotel seeking damages in...
Private Space-Station Maker Sued Over Claims Radio Bands Misused
Mar 28 2024 // Vast Space LLC, founded by cryptocurrency billionaire Jed McCaleb, is being sued by a former engineer who claimed he was fired for refusing to use improper radio frequencies in designs for a commercial space station the...
Disney Ends Fight With Governor DeSantis by Settling Florida Lawsuit
Mar 27 2024 // A board appointed by Ron DeSantis to oversee the municipal authority that governs Walt Disney Co. in Florida has voted to settle a state lawsuit against the company. The board of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight...
Mexico’s Lawsuit Against Arizona Gun Dealers Can Proceed, US Judge Rules
Mar 26 2024 // A U.S. judge on Monday ruled that the Mexican government could move forward with a lawsuit accusing five Arizona gun dealers of participating in the trafficking of weapons and ammunition to drug cartels across the...
5th Circuit: Chubb Must Cover SXSW in Suit Over Cancelled 2020 Festival
Mar 26 2024 // The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that Chubb must cover restitution claims paid to ticket holders of the 2020 South by Southwest film festival cancelled due to COVID-19. A three-judge panel reversed a...
Musk’s X Corp. Loses Lawsuit Against Hate Speech Watchdog
Mar 26 2024 // A U.S. judge on Monday threw out Elon Musk’s lawsuit against a nonprofit group that faulted him for allowing a rise in hate speech on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer...
Consumers Sue Apple, Taking Page From US Justice Department Lawsuit
Mar 26 2024 // Apple has been hit with a flurry of new consumer lawsuits accusing the iPhone maker of monopolizing the smartphone market, piggybacking on a sweeping antitrust case lodged by the U.S. Justice Department and 15 states last...
Lawsuit in New Mexico Alleges Abuse by Catholic Priest Decades Ago
Mar 26 2024 // A man who says he was sexually abused as a boy by a priest in New Mexico in the 1960s sued the church and diocese this week, the latest case to surface in the state as the Roman Catholic Church wrestles with the global...
Biden’s LNG-Permit Halt Challenged by 16 States in Lawsuit
Mar 22 2024 // Texas, Louisiana and more than a dozen other US states challenged the Biden administration’s suspension of new licenses to export natural gas via ocean-going tankers. A lawsuit filed against President Joe Biden and...
Apple Antitrust Suit Mirrors Strategy That Beat Microsoft, but Tech Industry Has Changed
Mar 22 2024 // The U.S. government’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple draws on the watershed 1998 case that broke Microsoft’s stranglehold on desktop software, but that may prove to be an imperfect blueprint for addressing...
Biden’s LNG-Permit Halt Challenged by 16 States in Lawsuit
Mar 22 2024 // Texas, Louisiana and more than a dozen other US states challenged the Biden administration’s suspension of new licenses to export natural gas via ocean-going tankers. A lawsuit filed against President Joe Biden and...
Indiana, West Virginia Pass New Restrictions on Third-Party Litigation Financing
Mar 21 2024 // Efforts to rein in third-party litigation financing are on their way to becoming law in Indiana and West Virginia, a scorecard that is less than what business and insurance interests had hoped for this spring. In Indiana,...
Justice Department Sues Apple in Antitrust Case Over iPhone
Mar 21 2024 // The US Justice Department and 16 attorneys general sued Apple Inc., accusing the iPhone maker of violating antitrust laws by blocking rivals from accessing hardware and software features on its popular devices. The suit,...
Ohio’s Cedar Point Amusement Park Fined $50K in Age Discrimination Suit
Mar 21 2024 // An Ohio will pay $50,000 to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. Cedar Fair, L.P., doing business as Cedar Point, and Magnum...
