On Thursday, a federal judge in Seattle issued a nationwide temporary restraining order blocking the enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, calling the directive “blatantly unconstitutional.” U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, halted the executive order just three days... Read More »
Justin Baldoni, actor and co-founder of Wayfarer Studios, filed suit against actress Blake Lively, his co-star in the film ‘It Ends With Us,’ along with her celebrity husband Ryan Reynolds and publicist Leslie Sloane for $400 million. This new filing by Mr. Baldoni in the Federal District Court for the... Read More »
President Donald Trump faces a wave of lawsuits challenging his executive order to curtail birthright citizenship. Democratic-led states, civil rights organizations, and advocacy groups filed multiple lawsuits on Tuesday, asserting the policy violates the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment. Trump’s executive order, signed on Monday, directs U.S. agencies to deny citizenship... Read More »
Kroger, one of the largest grocery stores in the U.S., is settling a lawsuit with Kentucky for $110 million, which the state says it will use to combat the highest death rate due to overdoses in the country. The state’s lawsuit against The Kroger Co. focused on the in-store pharmacies... Read More »
Sam Altman, the founder of the wildly popular AI generator software ChatGPT is denying the allegation that he sexually assaulted his younger sister, Ann Altman. Ann filed a disturbingly detailed lawsuit against her brother on the 6th of January in a US District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri.... Read More »
Just hours after Donald Trump was sworn into office as the 47th president of the United States, he signed forty-six presidential actions, from building a border wall and reinstating his previous “Remain in Mexico” policy to retaking the Panama Canal and renaming the Gulf of Mexico, just to name a... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against Walgreens, accusing the pharmacy giant of exacerbating the nation’s opioid crisis by filling millions of allegedly unlawful prescriptions. Filed Friday, the complaint alleges that Walgreens has, since August 2012, dispensed prescriptions lacking legitimate medical purposes, including opioids prescribed in... Read More »
Johns Hopkins University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have agreed to pay a combined $35.2 million to settle claims that they gave preferential treatment to wealthy student applicants, in violation of U.S. antitrust laws. The settlements, disclosed in a court filing on Friday, bring the total amount recovered... Read More »
Stephanie Cosme, 32, was working for Sumaria Systems, a contractor working for the US Navy, in California on Sept. 7, 2023, when she was killed by an airplane propeller. Her family, after waiting for eight months to read the official report, filed suit against Sumaria Systems and its director Derek... Read More »
Disney faces new legal troubles surrounding its hit animated franchise Moana. Animator Buck Woodall filed a lawsuit on Friday in California federal court, claiming Disney plagiarized his screenplay for an animated film titled Bucky. The suit alleges that both Moana and its sequel drew heavily from Woodall’s work, which he... Read More »
