April 12, 2022
A U.S. judge on Tuesday questioned whether allowing Mexico to sue U.S. gun manufacturers for facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels would open the door to other countries suing them, including Russia over firearms used by Ukrainians in …
April 11, 2022
A 6-year-old boy suffered a fractured skull and brain damage when he was accidentally hit by a baseball thrown by a Los Angeles Angels player who was warming up before a 2019 game, according to a lawsuit announced that blames …
April 8, 2022
A man has filed a lawsuit against King County, Washington, and several corrections officers, alleging they fractured his spine when they knelt on his back and forcibly removed his clothing in jail. Todd Jones, 53, filed the lawsuit in King …
April 7, 2022
TriMet is facing a $10 million lawsuit from the city of Portland, Oregon, for alleged deeply flawed work on a streetcar track, leaving it with major structural defects that could cost the city millions in repairs. Oregon Public Broadcasting reported …
April 7, 2022
Grocery chain Smart & Final has agreed to pay $175,000 in penalties to resolve allegations that the grocer engaged in price gouging of certain organic and cage-free eggs at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, state authorities said. California Attorney …
April 6, 2022
For all California’s nation-leading attempts to regulate firearms, the state has not found a way to deter those happy to skirt the laws with stolen or homemade and increasingly prevalent “ghost” guns. In just two recent examples, police say the …
April 5, 2022
A Texas city has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a 3-year-old boy who died last September after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a splash pad he’d visited. The Arlington City Council approved …
April 5, 2022
The first lawsuit filed in connection with a wildfire that destroyed over 1,000 homes and other buildings in suburban Denver claims that sparks from a power line started December’s blaze. The lawsuit filed against Xcel Energy says that its power …
April 5, 2022
An Ohio appeals court has upheld a $25 million judgment for a business that successfully claimed it was libeled by Oberlin College in the aftermath of a shoplifting incident that roiled the historic liberal arts school and music conservatory’s campus …
April 5, 2022
The Supreme Court of Arkansas has reversed and remanded a decision in an appeal of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission’s denial of a claim for additional medical benefits of an appellant over a time-limit in state code. The appellant, Terry …