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Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis’ ex-nanny sues former couple for wrongful termination

The former couple have previously referred to claims made by an unnamed ex-nanny as “false and scurrilous”

The Independent UK

Smartmatic's Libel Lawsuit Against Fox News Can Go Forward

From today's decision by the New York intermediate appellate court in Smartmatic USA Corp. v. Fox Corp.: The causes of action for defamation were based on significant allegations that defendant Giuliani (and defendant Powell, against whom the action has been dismissed) made defamatory statements about plaintiffs' involvement in the 2020…

Reason

An Alabama Man Was Taken to Jail. Two Weeks Later, He Was Dead From Hypothermia.

Tony Mitchell's death was a "direct and proximate result" of jail officers' "deliberate indifference or malice, and of their ongoing denial of Tony's constitutional rights under a scheme that continued to operate after his death," his family's suit states.

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Court to reconsider Connecticut's transgender athlete policy

A federal appeals court has reinstated a challenge to Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in girls high school sports, two months after a three-judge panel upheld the rules

The Independent UK

Prosecutor ousted by DeSantis filing appeal to get job back

The elected state prosecutor suspended by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is filing an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the governor in a renewed bid to get his job back

The Independent UK

The Tampa prosecutor ousted by Gov. DeSantis files a federal appeal

TAMPA, Fla. — After Andrew Warren lost a federal lawsuit to try to get reinstated as Hillsborough County’s state attorney last month, he said his legal battle against Gov. Ron DeSantis was “not over.”

Tribune News Service

Activists suing govt over Pegasus spyware

Activists in Thailand are suing the government for using spyware technology to monitor dissidents, the first such case in the country that they hope will help raise awareness and better protect citizens who are subject to increasing surveillance.

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Top US smoothie company accused of deception after toxic PFAS discovered

Lawsuit alleges Bolthouse Farms deceived customers by claiming Green Goddess smoothie is made with ‘100% fruit juice’

The Guardian - US

Lawsuits pile up two years after Texas’ devastating winter storm

Thousands are accusing power companies, distribution companies, electric grid operators and others of failing to prepare properly for the February 2021 storm, creating a catastrophe.

The Texas Tribune

North Carolina AG won't defend abortion pill restrictions

North Carolina's attorney general won’t defend state restrictions on dispensing abortion pills that are being challenged in a federal lawsuit

The Independent UK

Tennessee closes in on trans youth care ban; lawsuit pledged

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have pushed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors through the Senate

The Independent UK

Arkansas malpractice bill restricts trans youth medical care

Arkansas lawmakers are trying to effectively reinstate a ban on gender-affirming care for minors with a proposal that makes it easier to file malpractice lawsuits against doctors who provide the treatments

The Independent UK

Louisiana lawsuit alleges police killed fleeing Black man

Family members of a Black man who was killed as he tried to flee police in Louisiana have filed a $10 million lawsuit against the officer who shot him

The Independent UK

A less biased way to determine trademark infringement? Asking the brain directly

Does the toothpaste Colddate infringe upon the trademark of Colgate? Some might think this is a no-brainer. But in a 2007 lawsuit between the two brands, Colgate-Palmolive lost on the grounds that the two brands were “similar” but not “substantially indistinguishable.”

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Maersk Sues Evergreen over Suez Canal Blockage in Danish Court

Shipping group Maersk said on Monday it had filed a lawsuit against the owner and operator of container ship Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal for six days in 2021, claiming compensation for delays caused by the incident. The Danish company did not disclose the size of the claim…

ABC News

Northern Land Council, Environment Centre NT challenge cotton-growing land clearing permit on NT cattle station

An environmental group and the Top End's Aboriginal land council are bringing separate lawsuits over a clearing permit they say could damage important habitats and jeopardise sacred Indigenous sites.

AAP

Regulator's Crown case 'slower than carving up Europe'

AUSTRAC's money laundering lawsuit against Crown has been criticised as taking longer than the divvying up of Europe after Napoleon Bonaparte's downfall.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lawsuit seeks white woman’s arrest in Emmett Till’s 1955 kidnapping, lynching

Researchers last year found an unserved search warrant on an accuser connected to the Chicago teen’s torture and death. Till’s cousin wants the warrant served on Carolyn Bryant.

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Black farmers call for justice from the USDA

Decades after a major lawsuit against the USDA, Black farmers still face inequality. They say not all settlements from the case made it into their hands, which has exacerbated debt and other problems.

Tribune News Service

San Diego County sheriff rejects stricter rules for housing transgender people in jails

SAN DIEGO — San Diego County Sheriff Kelly Martinez won’t implement a recommendation to tighten rules for booking transgender people into county jails that coincide with their gender.

Tribune News Service

San Diego Catholic diocese ponders bankruptcy with sex-abuse lawsuits pending

SAN DIEGO — The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego is warning it may have to file bankruptcy in the future because of the potential fallout from hundreds of pending lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by clergy over the last 75 years.

The Guardian - US

Emmett Till relative’s lawsuit seeks to serve white woman’s arrest warrant

Cousin of murdered Black teenager tries to compel sheriff to enforce 1955 warrant against Carolyn Bryant Donham, now 89

Sports Illustrated

Brett Favre’s Lawyers File for Dismissal of Welfare Funds Lawsuit—Again

The former quarterback also asked for a dismissal last November.

The Independent UK

Lawsuit over man fatally shot by Indianapolis police settled

A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a man fatally shot while being chased by a police officer in Indianapolis has been settled for $390,000

The Independent UK

Favre seeks dismissal from Mississippi welfare funds lawsuit

Brett Favre’s lawyers are again asking a Mississippi judge to dismiss the retired NFL quarterback from a lawsuit that demands repayment of millions of dollars of welfare money

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