Tag: Lawsuits

Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South

Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand...

Defamation suit against Fox News by head of dismantled disinformation board tossed by federal judge

FILE - Homeland Security logo is seen during a joint news conference in Washington, Feb. 25, 2015. A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit...

Maryland announces civil lawsuit in case involving demands of sex for rent

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Maryland's attorney general filed a civil lawsuit on Friday against an Eastern Shore landlord and his company, alleging a pattern...

Few residents opt out of $600 million class action settlement in East Palestine, Ohio, derailment

Few people ultimately opted out of the $600 million class action settlement Norfolk Southern offered to people affected by last year's disastrous East...

Computer scientist who claimed to invent bitcoin referred to prosecutors for perjury

LONDON -- An Australian computer scientist found to have falsely claimed to be the mysterious creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency will be referred...

The Beastie Boys sue Chili's parent company over alleged misuse song in ad

FILE - The Beastie Boys, from left, Adam Yauch, Mike Diamond, and Adam Horovitz arrive at an interview panel during the SXSW Music...