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#1 ‘Wave’ of Lawsuits Over FTX Expected, but Investors Will Face Legal Hurdles
Nov 18 2022 // A lawsuit by FTX account holders in the United States is likely the first of many that will be brought over billions of dollars in losses on the cryptocurrency exchange, though the cases will face obstacles including...
#2 Uvalde Shooting Victims Seek $27B, Class Action in Lawsuit
Dec 5 2022 // Victims of the Uvalde school shooting that left 21 people dead have filed a lawsuit against local and state police, the city and other school and law enforcement officials seeking $27 billion due to delays in confronting...
#3 Twitter Asks Judge to Toss Out Proposed Sex Bias Class Action
Jan 30 2023 // Twitter Inc. has asked a federal judge to toss out a proposed class action claiming the company targeted female employees during its recent mass layoffs, saying the plaintiffs failed to identify any actual...
#4 U.S. Court Rejects J&J Bankruptcy Strategy for Thousands of Talc Lawsuits
Jan 31 2023 // A U.S. appeals court on Monday shot down Johnson & Johnson’s attempt to offload tens of thousands of lawsuits over its talc products into bankruptcy court. The ruling marked the first major repudiation of an...
#5 Gannett Sues Google, Alleges Online Ad Monopoly
Jun 20 2023 // Gannett Co Inc, the largest U.S. newspaper chain, on Tuesday sued Google, accusing the social media company of violating federal antitrust law by trying to monopolize the market for online advertising. The publisher of USA...
#6 Another Woman Files Sex Abuse Suit Against Cosby, NBC Under New York Extension
Jan 3 2023 // A woman who alleges Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 sued the comedian-actor, NBCUniversal and other companies Friday in New York, where five other women filed a similar lawsuit earlier this...
#7 Juul Settlement to End Youth-Vaping Lawsuits Gets Initial Approval
Jan 23 2023 // Juul Labs Inc. won preliminary approval of a settlement aimed at resolving thousands of lawsuits targeting the e-cigarette maker as a major cause of a US youth-vaping epidemic. U.S. District Judge William Orrick said on...
#8 Special Report: Corporate Chiefs Dodge Lawsuits Over Sexual Abuse, Deadly Products
Nov 8 2022 // Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction landed him in prison. Allegations of serial sexual abuse cost him his career and his movie studio. His company went bankrupt and later settled legal claims by...
#9 Couple’s Lawsuit Claims Black and White Bias in Home Appraisals
Aug 22 2022 // How much does it pay to hide the photos of your family at your home, or anything else that shows your race? If you’re Black and trying to find out how much your house is worth, one family suggests it could be...
#10 U.S. Targets Google’s Online Ad Business Monopoly in Latest Big Tech Lawsuit
Jan 25 2023 // The U.S. Justice Department accused Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday of abusing its dominance in digital advertising, threatening to dismantle a key business at the heart of one of Silicon Valley’s most...
#11 JetBlue’s $3.8 Billion Spirit Deal Challenged in DOJ Antitrust Suit
Mar 7 2023 // The US Justice Department challenged JetBlue Airways Corp.’s $3.8 billion acquisition of Spirit Airlines Inc. Tuesday, filing an antitrust lawsuit seeking to block the deal. In a complaint filed in federal court in...
#12 Google Play Fee Suit by Consumers Grows to 21 Million Users
Nov 29 2022 // Google now faces more than 21 million customers, instead of just a handful, in a lawsuit alleging its app store collects exorbitant fees. A federal judge exponentially increased the Alphabet Inc. unit’s damages...
#13 Google Argues it Doesn’t Block Rivals in Bid to Kill U.S. Government Antitrust Lawsuit
Jan 12 2023 // Google parent Alphabet on Wednesday argued that a court should toss out a government antitrust lawsuit against it, saying that agreements it made with Apple and others to make Google the default search engine do not bar...
#14 Zuckerberg, Meta Are Sued for Failing to Address Sex Trafficking, Child Exploitation
Mar 22 2023 // A new lawsuit accuses Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms Inc. executives and directors of failing to do enough to stop sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. The complaint made...
#15 Walmart Faces Second Lawsuit This Week Over Treatment of Workers
Mar 31 2023 // Walmart Inc. was sued on Thursday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency’s second lawsuit this week accusing the largest U.S. retailer of discrimination against workers with...
#16 Facebook Hit With $1 Million Fine Tied to User-Privacy Lawsuit
Feb 10 2023 // Facebook and its outside law firm were ordered to pay almost $1 million in sanctions for deceitfully denying that it shared users’ private information with third parties without permission. The fine is “loose...
#17 Nine More States Join Federal Lawsuit Against Google Over Ad Tech
Apr 18 2023 // Nine states, including Michigan and Nebraska, have joined a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google which alleges the search and advertising company broke antitrust law in running its digital...
#18 Republican National Committee Sues Google Over Email Spam Filters
Oct 24 2022 // The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Friday for allegedly sending its emails to users’ spam folders. The U.S. political committee accuses the tech giant of...
#19 Jurors to Decide Damages Amount in Sandy Hook Defamation Suit
Oct 3 2022 // After watching days of testimony that included the parents of slain children breaking down on the witness stand, a Connecticut jury soon will have the difficult task of coming up with a dollar amount that conspiracy...
#20 Silicon Valley Bank Parent SVB Financial Group Faces First Securities Class Action
Mar 14 2023 // Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on Monday was hit with what appears to be the first federal securities class-action lawsuit against it, carrying allegations that the bank made false or misleading statements pertaining to the...
