Residents in a southeast Oklahoma town have filed a lawsuit to close an old mining pit where fly ash from a nearby coal-powered plant is dumped. The Tulsa World reported in Wednesday’s editions that seven Bokoshe residents and others sued …
An anonymous actress claims in a million-dollar U.S. lawsuit that her offers for roles dropped sharply after the popular Internet Movie Database published damaging personal information: her age. The actress, identified as a Texas resident of Asian descent, claims she …
A Louisiana woman is suing Facebook over allegations that the social networking site collects and stores users’ Internet browsing history without their permission. Former Louisiana Attorney General Richard Ieyoub filed the federal class-action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Janet Seamon, …
The father of a 20-year-old South Carolina woman crushed under a truck as she slept in a tent at the All Good Music Festival is suing the event producers, hosts, traffic directors and security providers for negligence. Nicole Miller died …
A Nevada jury is ordering pharmaceutical companies to pay $162.5 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak in 2008. The damages awarded Monday in Clark County District Court are on top of …
In the age of iTunes and an-app-for-everything, Joel Tenenbaum’s battle with the music industry over illegal downloading seems as relevant as an eight-track cassette. But it turns out the fight could produce something surprisingly enduring: a change in copyright law. …
A California judge says a boy suing the Boy Scouts of America for troop leader sexual abuse can seek punitive damages. The Santa Barbara News-Press says a judge made the ruling Wednesday, nearly four years after a 13-year-old Boy Scout …
A New Milford police lieutenant who was fired two months before he was eligible to retire has filed a federal lawsuit seeking $10 million in punitive damages. Former Lt. James Duda’s attorney says he was fired without due process in …
A former student at Webster University is suing the suburban St. Louis university, claiming he was dismissed from a master’s degree program because he supposedly lacked empathy. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says the suit claims up to $1 million in …
A West Virginia jury has awarded $7 million in damages to the family of a worker killed in a 2007 explosion at an American Electric Power plant in Ohio. A Marshall County jury found AEP and subsidiary Ohio Power Co. …