Tag: lawsuit

Parish Sues to Protect Religious Liberty and to Preempt Penalties for Its Gender Identity Policies

A clash of rights has provoked St. Joseph’s Catholic Church of St. Johns, Michigan, to pick a legal fight with the state. In a complaint filed with the United States District Court of Western Michigan on Dec. 5, the parish asserts that in light of the redefining of the phrase “biological sex” in the state’s…


2 Women Sue Twitter for Allegedly Targeting Female Employees in Musk-Led Layoffs

A new class action lawsuit has been filed against Twitter alleging that the company targeted women during widespread layoffs initiated by Elon Musk. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Dec. 7 by attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan on behalf of two former Twitter employees who were laid off by…


38 Women Accuse James Toback of Sexual Misconduct in Lawsuit

NEW YORK— More than three dozen women have filed a lawsuit in New York against writer and director James Toback, accusing him of sexual abuse. The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan on Monday, comes after New York state last month instituted a one-year window for people to file lawsuits over sexual assault…


Hertz to Pay $168 Million in Settlements Over False Robbery Claims, Which Led to Jailing of Customers

Hertz, the rental car company, has agreed to pay $168 million to settle multiple claims in the United States over false car robbery charges against some of its customers, which led to imprisonment in many cases. Customers of the rental car company alleged that they were pulled over, arrested, thrown in prison, and falsely charged…


Alabama Mom Sues Porn Giant for Running Sex Videos of Her 12-Year-Old Son

An Alabama mother has filed a federal lawsuit against the world’s largest distributor of pornography, claiming it knowingly sold porn videos featuring her 12-year-old son. According to the federal lawsuit, the porn videos, some of which are violent in nature, were made by the woman’s live-in boyfriend without her knowledge and then sold to MindGeek,…


Google Struck $360-Million Activision Deal to Block Rival App Store, Lawsuit Says

OAKLAND, Calif.—Alphabet Inc’s Google has struck at least 24 deals with big app developers to stop them from competing with its Play Store, including an agreement to pay Activision Blizzard Inc. about $360 million over three years, according to a court filing on Thursday. Google also agreed in 2020 to pay Tencent Holdings Ltd’s Riot…


Former Employees Suing Nike Over COVID Vaccine Mandate

Amid reports that international travel will soon require a vaccine passport, former senior Nike employees accused the shoe company of unlawfully requiring them to submit to the COVID-19 vaccine without the proper authority. “Having an injection inside one’s body has no bearing on the task performed by the plaintiffs and since the COVID 19 vaccines…


Lawsuit Claims Massachusetts and Google Installed COVID-19 ‘Spyware’ on 1 Million Devices

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly working with Google to install “spyware” onto the Android devices of a million state residents without their knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plaintiffs Robert Wright and Johnny Kula were among 1 million Massachusetts residents who had the state’s “COVID Exposure Settings: US-MA”…


Gabby Petito Family Settles $3 Million Suit in Killing by Fiance

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—The families of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie have reached a $3 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed after authorities concluded he strangled her during a cross-country trip in August 2021. The settlement was signed Thursday by Sarasota County Circuit Judge Hunter W. Carroll. A lawyer for Petito’s parents said whatever…


Jury Tells Filmmaker Haggis to Pay $10 Million Total in Rape Suit

NEW YORK—Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis was ordered Monday to pay an additional $2.5 million in damages in a rape lawsuit, bringing the total to $10 million for a woman who said he sexually assaulted her nearly a decade ago. While accuser Haleigh Breest’s lawyers called the verdict just, Haggis insisted that he had been falsely…