The End of the ‘Rust’ Criminal Case Against Alec Baldwin May Unlock a Civil Lawsuit December 31, 2024 By Morgan Lee The conclusion of a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer clears the way for...
Polish E-Commerce Allegro’s Unit Sues Alphabet for $568M December 26, 2024 By Mateusz Rabiega A subsidiary of Polish e-commerce platform Allegro filed a lawsuit on Monday against Google owner Alphabet, Google Ireland and Google...
Group Says New Jersey Toxic Dumping Caused $1B in Harm, Calls Settlement Inadequate December 23, 2024 By Wayne Parry Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion...
US Consumer Watchdog Sues Big Banks Over ‘Widespread’ Fraud on Zelle Payment App December 20, 2024 By Ismail Shakil, Manya Saini, Niket Nishant and Pete Schroeder The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said on Friday it filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and...
Aerospace Firm AAR Settles US Bribery Charges for $55M December 20, 2024 By Kanishka Singh and Douglas Gillison Global aerospace company AAR Corp. has agreed to pay more than $55 million to resolve allegations of bribing Nepalese and...
American Airlines Settles Race Discrimination Suit by Black Men Removed From Flight December 19, 2024 By Daniel Wiessner American Airlines has agreed to settle a race discrimination lawsuit by three Black men who were temporarily removed from a...
Congo Sues Apple Alleging ‘Pillaged’ Minerals in Products December 17, 2024 By William Clowes The Democratic Republic of Congo filed lawsuits against Apple Inc. in France and Belgium. In them, it accuses the company...
ABC to Give $15M to Trump’s Presidential Library to Settle Defamation Suit December 17, 2024 By Michael R. Sisak ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor...
International, Domestic Insurers Push into Catastrophe-Hit US Property Markets December 16, 2024 By Carolyn Cohn and Noor Zainab Hussain International and domestic insurers are pushing into the U.S. market for hard-to-protect homes, charging high premiums and enjoying strong profits...
Public Nuisance Claims Denied by Ohio Supreme Court in Opioid Case December 16, 2024 The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the state’s product liability law prohibits counties from bringing public nuisance claims against national...