LOS ANGELES — Federal courts in and around Los Angeles are driving a recent surge in consumer protection litigation nationally, with the cases in the Central District of California accounting for 9.3% ...

CHARLESTON – Two environmental organizations have sued West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey, accusing him of using the state’s consumer protection law to investigate their climate advocacy, ...

MIAMI – A Florida man, who claims he was wrongfully identified as a suspected shooter at two Miami-area high schools in 2022, is now suing the Miami-Dade County School Board and the two school ...

AUSTIN — The State of Texas was part of a multistate coalition that secured a settlement with Albertsons that, once final, would require the grocery chain to pay more than $773 million nationally to ...

CINCINNATI — A federal appeals court has upheld a $25.2 million judgment against U.S. Sen. Jim Justice, ruling he must personally cover unpaid collateral and overdue bond premiums owed by coal ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee will not let non-attorneys own shares of law firms, closing – for now – the question of whether doing so would help residents obtain legal services or whether it would ...

CHICAGO — A group of potentially thousands of truck drivers can move ahead with a class action lawsuit accusing railroad operator Union Pacific of scanning their fingerprints, allegedly in violation ...

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — An appeals court trimmed, but left largely intact, a judge’s $29.5 million verdict against a South Carolina nursing home accused of repeatedly mistreating a woman who died ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A Bay Area tech CEO, whose companies have long worked under sometimes secretive high level government software and surveillance contracts, can't revive his $25 million defamation ...

PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS — A Massachusetts jury rejected claims Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder caused a woman’s fatal cancer, although the panel did decide the product should have had a warning ...

Walmart’s president and CEO says the retailer stands by its “Every Day Low Price promise.” In a September 25 memo to employees and customers, John Furner says the retail giant will not use personal ...

SACRAMENTO — California has become the latest state to enact a state law restricting private equity and other non-lawyer investors from owning or running law firms. Lawsuit abuse reform advocates, ...