June 12, 2023
A Salt Lake City man who says his job offer to become an Alaska State Trooper was rescinded after he disclosed he was HIV positive filed a lawsuit in state court Thursday to get his position on the statewide police …
June 9, 2023
New Mexico’s attorney general and its Environment Department filed suit against the manufacturers of so-called “forever chemicals,” commonly referred to as PFAS, seeking monetary damages to defray the costs of environmental monitoring and cleanups that they say are inevitable. Attorney …
June 8, 2023
Tesla may face a class-action lawsuit after 240 Black factory workers in California described rampant racism and discrimination at the electric automaker’s San Francisco Bay Area plant, including frequent use of racial slurs and references to the manufacturing site as …
June 8, 2023
Washington state is set to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit over alleged severe neglect at an adult family home – in addition to more than $300,000 in penalties levied by a judge for wrongful withholding of evidence, officials …
June 5, 2023
A lawsuit filed by a Washington oyster farmer accusing a former county deputy of falsifying an arrest report and urging a person to lie during a domestic-violence investigation has been settled for $250, 000. Gerardo Rodarte, the owner of Samish …
June 5, 2023
The family of a man who drowned in Tempe Town Lake in Arizona a year ago filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, noting that its police department doesn’t have a policy requiring officers to go into the water …
May 31, 2023
Officials in Tacoma, Washington, will pay $3.1 million to the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop in 2019. The City Council announced the settlement with the relatives of 24-year- old Bennie …
May 23, 2023
The former director of the New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies is suing state officials, saying his race and gender played a role in his firing. Eric Blinman filed a lawsuit in federal court late last week against Gov. Michelle …
May 22, 2023
TULSA, Okla. (AP) – A Native American former student is suing an Oklahoma school district for the removal of an eagle feather from her graduation cap prior to her high school graduation ceremony. The lawsuit filed Monday in Tulsa County …
May 18, 2023
Nevada and pharmacy chain CVS have reached a nearly $152 million settlement to be paid over the next decade to end a lawsuit over opioid claims, state Attorney General Aaron Ford announced. “CVS negotiated in good faith,” Ford said at …