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A grieving mother is seeking justice and answers as she files a lawsuit against American Airlines after her 14-year-old son tragically passed away during a flight. The incident occurred in 2022 when Kevin Greenidge and his family were returning to New York from a vacation in Honduras. According to the lawsuit, Kevin lost consciousness shortly…
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Renowned television personality “Judge” Judy Sheindlin has initiated legal action against the parent company of the National Enquirer and InTouch Weekly for defamation. Sheindlin alleges that the publications disseminated false information suggesting she was involved in efforts to secure a retrial for the Menendez brothers, who were convicted of murdering their parents. The lawsuit, filed…
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Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr, along with a super PAC supporting him, filed a lawsuit on Monday against Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META.O), alleging interference in the election after the tech giant blocked a political advertisement. Kennedy and the American Values 2024 super PAC, which funded the advertisement—a 30-minute video about Kennedy’s…
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In Monday’s trial at New York state criminal court in Manhattan, jurors heard Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer, testify that the Republican presidential candidate expressed fury over porn star Stormy Daniels shopping a story in 2016 about an alleged sexual encounter with him. Cohen stated that Trump considered it catastrophic for his campaign, expressing…
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Aerospace and defense giant RTX’s (RTX.N) Pratt & Whitney unit is now the last defendant in a potentially high-stakes lawsuit over an alleged conspiracy to restrict hiring and recruitment after a global engineering services firm inked a settlement with the plaintiffs. Attorneys leading the proposed class action case disclosed the settlement with Belcan Engineering Group…
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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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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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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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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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