All across America, thousands of localities have sued pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors for their roles in the deaths of nearly half a million people from opioid overdoses. A federal jury in Cleveland found Walgreen’s, CVS, and Walmart liable for contributing to the drug epidemic in two Ohio counties. Walgreens recently... Read More »
The 9th Circuit federal appeals court struck down a California law that banned individuals under the age of 21 from purchasing centerfire semi-automatic guns. The 2-1 split decision stated the law was unconstitutional and called it a “severe burden” on Second Amendment rights of "self-defense in the home." Individuals over... Read More »
Intuit, the company which makes TurboTax, has agreed to a $141 million settlement with all 50 states. The settlement stems from allegations that the popular self-filing tax software steered customers away from its free edition software and pushed them toward its paid services instead. Along with paying back millions of... Read More »
The Justice Department sued casino mogul Stephen Wynn on Tuesday, alleging he made requests from China’s government to then-president Trump, and that he must now register as a foreign agent. The suit claims that in 2017, Wynn shared a request from the Chinese government to deport a Chinese citizen who... Read More »
Health advocates have spent decades speaking out about the dangers of cigarettes. Smoking tobacco has been definitively linked to heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, and cancer, among other debilitating and dangerous conditions. The tobacco lobby, on the other hand, has downplayed the dangers of cigarettes and continuously fought for the... Read More »
A $230 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought forward by fishermen and property owners in Southern California against a Houston-based oil pipeline. The Plains All American Pipeline was the subject of a lawsuit after thousands of barrels of crude oil spilled onto the beaches of Southern California... Read More »
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a preliminary injunction against a Texas social media law, allowing it to go into effect. The Court’s split 2-1 panel vote will allow private parties to sue tech platforms over allegations of censorship and put sizeable constraints on the country’s largest social media... Read More »
The plaintiff is the aptly-named “Where Do We Go Berkeley?” (WDWG), a homeless advocacy organization. It filed suit against the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) when the Department tried to clear two encampments near freeways that were home to about 30 homeless individuals, many of them physically or mentally disabled. ... Read More »
On August 30, 2021, the California Supreme Court issued a bombshell opinion in a case titled McHugh v. Protective Life Insurance Company. The Court found that recent amendments to the California Insurance Code establishing notice requirements prior to policy lapse applied to all policies then in force, not just new... Read More »
The city of Portland, Oregon, has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that was brought forward last year by a group of individuals including some homeless residents of the city. The lawsuit was brought in May 2021 and accused the city of illegally throwing away people's personal belongings following citywide... Read More »
The state of Arkansas is suing several drug manufacturers and pharmaceutical benefits managers over accusations that the companies are violating the state's deceptive trade practice laws. The accusations detail that the plaintiffs inflated the price of insulin for diabetics by conspiring in a manner that best benefited them instead of... Read More »
A 20-year-old Latinx military college student, identified as ‘John Doe’ in legal documents, tested positive for HIV and was deemed ‘unfit’ and then kicked out of the Vermont Army National Guard and Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) last week. In this challenge to US military policies, this lawsuit signals a... Read More »
Often described as a “luxury food item beloved in French cuisine,” foie gras is made from the fattened liver of a duck or goose. Unfortunately, in order to obtain the 50 to 65 percent of fat that produces the “rich and buttery flavor,” the maltreated fowl must be force-fed. A tube is... Read More »
In what is believed to be the largest settlement of its kind, a New Jersey man has agreed to a $10 million settlement with Camden County following a police encounter that left him paralyzed. In 2014, Xavier Ingram was left paralyzed in his arms and legs after a police encounter... Read More »
In these post-COVID times when people have started traveling again, it is common to hear news reports about angry passengers who start fights on board. The reasons vary. Some don’t want to wear masks; others are upset about long waits or cancellations, or they object to new rules about limits... Read More »
