Litigation/Liability Trends
BlackBerry Files Suit Over Against iPhone Keyboard Maker
BlackBerry Ltd., the smartphone maker that withdrew plans to sell itself and go private last year, sued Ryan Seacrest's Typo Products LLC alleging it copied designs for a keyboard case. The company ...Appeals Court to Fast-Track BP’s Bid to Halt Gulf Oil Spill Payments
BP Plc's bid to block economic-loss payments tied to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill unless the claims can be directly linked to the disaster won fast-track consideration by an appeals court. The ...
Study Shows Fracking May Harm Babies
The energy industry has long insisted that hydraulic fracking—the practice of fracturing rock to extract gas and oil deep beneath the earth's surface—is safe for people who live nearby. New ...
Facebook Sued For Scanning Users’ Private Messages
Facebook Inc. was sued over allegations it systematically intercepts its users private messages on the social network and profits by sharing the data with advertisers and marketers. When users ...
NYC Sues FedEx for Illegally Shipping Cigarettes to Homes
New York City has sued FedEx Corp, accusing it of illegally delivering millions of contraband cigarettes to people's homes and seeking $52 million in fines and unpaid taxes. The lawsuit, filed in ...
Judge Dismisses Katrina Flooding Lawsuits Against Feds
Dozens of lawsuits seeking damages from the federal government for Hurricane Katrina-related levee failures and flooding in the New Orleans area are over. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. has ...
Bank of America $39M Gender Bias Deal Approved
A federal judge on Friday approved Bank of America Corp's $39 million settlement of a gender discrimination lawsuit by female brokers over objections that the accord would enshrine bias on Wall ...
EEOC Charges Drop in 2013
For fiscal year 2013, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received less than 94,000 new private sector charges of employment discrimination, marking the lowest level since 2009. The ...