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Colorado City Settling Misconduct Claim for $125K

A Colorado city has agreed to pay $125,000 to a man who says a city police officer tackled him after helping another man break into his home two years ago. The Gazette reported Wednesday that 72-year-old William Michael Clark filed …

5 Montana Hospitals Settle Lawsuit over Employee Insurance

Five Montana hospitals are settling a lawsuit that claimed they made a deal with an insurer to inflate employee health coverage prices in return for $26 million. The hospitals, which deny wrongdoing, agreed to pay $6.9 million to employees to …

Colorado Fertility Doc Used Own Sperm to Impregnate Woman, Lawsuit Charges

A family alleges in a lawsuit that a Colorado fertility doctor used his own sperm instead of that of an anonymous donor to impregnate a woman without her consent. KUSA-TV reported that the lawsuit filed this week contends Dr. Paul …

Trial Opens in Suit Over ‘Frankenstein’ Use of Remains by Arizona Center

A retired FBI agent described a horrific raid of now-closed body donation facility, recalling a table stacked with severed human legs, heads stuffed in a cooler, and torsos without heads and limbs. Mark Cwynar testified on the opening day of …

Massachusetts Sues Exxon for Misleading Investors, Consumers About Climate Change

The state of Massachusetts sued Exxon Mobil Corp on Thursday, accusing the oil giant of misleading investors and consumers for decades about the role fossil fuels play in climate change. Attorney General Maura Healey filed the lawsuit shortly after Exxon …

Woman Sues Oregon Clinic Claiming of Past Abuse by Pediatrician

A woman who says she was repeatedly sexually abused by her pediatrician has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the doctor’s former medical clinic in Oregon. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that the woman says the abuse occurred in the 1980s and …

Ex-Salon Chief Suing Wynn Resorts for Spying on Him

A former beauty salon director who went public about sexual misconduct allegations against casino mogul Steve Wynn nearly two years ago is suing Wynn Resorts and company executives, alleging they invaded his privacy and spied on him at his next …

Alaska Supreme Court Will Hear Youth’s Climate Change Lawsuit

The Alaska Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a lawsuit that claims state policy on fossil fuels is harming the constitutional right of young Alaskans to a safe climate. Sixteen Alaska youths in 2017 sued the state, claiming …

Two Women Allege Sexual Harassment, Abuse at Connecticut-Based Restaurant Chain

Two former employees of a Connecticut-based restaurant chain say in a lawsuit that they were subjected to a pattern of sexual harassment and abuse by a manager. Gianna Aconfora and Maizzy Douchette allege in the suit filed this week in …

Victims of the Las Vegas Shooting Reach Settlement

Attorneys representing substantially all plaintiffs in litigation involving the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting announced they have reached a settlement agreement to resolve pending lawsuits involving MGM Resorts. The total settlement amount is expected to be between $735 million and $800 …