Tyco has agreed to pay $750 million to settle lawsuits by thousands of public water systems nationwide with contaminated drinking water supplies. On Friday, lead class counsel announced the settlement, which compensates an estimated 12,000 public water systems and follows similar agreements with DuPont, for $1.19 billion, and 3M, for…

Lawsuits are circulating in New York trial courts challenging a recent law that will change town and county elections to even-numbered years, to coincide with federal and state elective offices, beginning in January 2025. In central New York, Syracuse attorney Robert Julien filed a claim on April 9 on behalf…

A jury in Essex County, New Jersey, returned a $55 million verdict to a woman who suffered amputations of both legs when a truck hit her. Following a two-week trial before Superior Court Judge Thomas Vena, the verdict was entered April 11 against Alert Motor Freight and Jersey City Transport, two…

Live Nation has been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit after two concert goers were allegedly shot and killed by a fellow attendee during the June 2023 Beyond Wonderland festival at The Gorge in Washington state. The families of two Seattle nurses, Brandy Escamilla and Josilyn Ruiz, filed suit against…

A class action civil rights complaint filed against Bumble this week alleges the dating platform treats consumers unequally based on their gender and sexual-orientation, with specific allegations claiming it discriminates against heterosexual women. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just filed cases in state…

The Indiana Court of Appeals denied a group of plaintiffs’ attempts to include a nonbinary option on state driver’s licenses, concluding the “gender” of a permittee or licensee refers to the “biological division of being either female or male.” The appellate court reversed the trial court’s summary judgment order in favor of…