Oct 12 Judge rules Trump must sit for deposition in defamation lawsuit By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press A judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump will have to sit for a deposition next week in a defamation lawsuit filed by a writer who says he raped her in the mid-1990s. Continue reading
Oct 10 New lawsuit from small business group seeks to block Biden student debt relief plan By Jill Colvin, Associated Press The suit, filed Monday by the Job Creators Network Foundation, argues the Biden administration violated federal procedures by failing to seek public input on the program. Continue reading
Oct 04 Judge dismisses charges against 7 people in Flint water crisis By Ed White, Associated Press A judge has dismissed charges against seven people in the Flint water scandal, including two former state health officials blamed for deaths from Legionnaires' disease. Continue reading
Oct 03 Donald Trump files $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN By Associated Press Former President Donald Trump has gone to court against CNN, a familiar target when he was president. He's seeking $475 million in damages, saying the network's reports are trying to short-circuit any future political campaign. Continue reading
Sep 22 Alex Jones testifies in Connecticut trial over his Sandy Hook hoax lies By Dave Collins, Pat Eaton-Robb, Associated Press Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones took the stand Thursday at his defamation trial in Connecticut as he tried to limit the damages he must pay for promoting the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax. Continue reading
Sep 09 Judge tosses Donald Trump's Russia probe lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, FBI By Eric Tucker, Associated Press U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks said in a sharply worded ruling on Thursday that Trump's lawsuit, filed in March, contained "glaring structural deficiencies" and that many of the "characterizations of events are implausible."… Continue reading
Aug 24 Cosmetics giant Sephora settles customer data privacy lawsuit By Don Thompson, Associated Press Sephora Inc. has settled a lawsuit claiming the company sold customer information without proper notice in violation of the California's landmark consumer privacy law. Continue reading
Jul 25 Lawsuit against U.S. poultry producers alleges unfair, abusive worker practices By Michael Balsamo, Associated Press The Justice Department alleges the companies have been engaged in a multiyear conspiracy to exchange information about the wages and benefits of poultry plant workers to suppress competition for those workers. Continue reading
Jul 12 Twitter sues to force Elon Musk to complete his $44 billion acquisition By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press Musk and Twitter have been bracing for a legal fight since the billionaire said Friday he was backing off of his April agreement to buy the company. Continue reading
Apr 29 Donald Trump, fighting daily contempt fines, says he doesn't have requested records By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press Donald Trump's lawyers have provided a New York judge with an affidavit in which the former president claims he didn't turn over subpoenaed documents to the state attorney general's office because he doesn't have them. Continue reading