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The City of Chicago is on the brink of finalizing a $5.8 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit filed by 12 Black employees against the city’s water department, alleging pervasive racism and a toxic work environment. The tentative agreement, reached on May 6, comes just before a scheduled trial in federal court. According to CBS…
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A Pennsylvania jury ordered ExxonMobil (XOM.N) to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed toxic chemicals in the company’s gasoline and solvents caused his cancer, according to attorneys for the plaintiff. Attorneys said the 10-2 verdict came on Thursday after a trial in a state court in Philadelphia, where former mechanic Paul Gill…
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Former personal attorney to Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, is set to take the stand on Monday, May 13, in Trump’s criminal trial concerning hush money payments. The trial, taking place in New York, is poised to potentially alter Trump’s fate, with Cohen’s testimony likely serving as a critical piece of evidence for prosecutors. Cohen, who…
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A U.S. judge in Missouri, Stephen Bough, approved $208 million in consumer antitrust settlements with Re/Max and two other leading real estate brokerages. He cast aside objections claiming the deals could bar others from pursuing their own claims that the defendants inflated home sales commissions. U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough in Kansas City stated that…
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Diddy, the renowned rapper and entrepreneur, is pushing back against one of the multiple sexual assault lawsuits he’s facing, calling it a “false and hideous claim” and seeking its dismissal. The lawsuit, filed by a woman known as Jane Doe, alleges that Diddy and two other men raped her at a recording studio in the…
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Sibongile Mani, a student at Walter Sisulu University (WSU) in South Africa, found herself in an extraordinary predicament when an astonishing sum of nearly $1,000,000 was mistakenly deposited into her bank account. Accustomed to relying on modest benefits to support her studies, Mani typically received around $100 monthly for essential expenses. However, one morning, Mani…
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A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X Corp against an Israeli data-scraping company, accusing it of illegally copying and selling content from the social media platform, as well as providing tools for others to do the same. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on Thursday that X, formerly…
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In a historic ruling, the Louisiana Supreme Court has granted approval for the creation of the City of St. George, a decision that concludes a prolonged and contentious dispute spanning over a decade. According to the Washington Times, the landmark ruling signifies the imminent separation of a segment of Baton Rouge’s southeast region, ushering in…
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On Friday, Texas’ highest court limited women’s ability to obtain monetary damages from medical providers whose alleged negligence led them to have unwanted pregnancies, ruling that state law does not treat the birth of a healthy child as an injury for which a parent must be compensated. The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a mother…
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In a shocking turn of events, a Houston neighborhood was rattled when a 20-year-old trans woman, Karon Fisher, was arrested after a brutal daylight murder caught on camera. According to reports from ABC13, the victim, 64-year-old Steven Anderson, was walking in his Houston neighborhood when Fisher, speeding down the street, collided with him without warning.…
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