A year after suing their company Purdue Pharma and others for $500 million, New York City formally accused the wealthy Sackler family of participating in a decades-long campaign to mislead the public about the dangers of OxyContin.
Read moreVictims and family members of those killed during the 2016 shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Tuesday to revive wrongful death and Anti-Terrorism Act claims against Twitter and other social media platforms.
Read morePolice departments across the country are investing in body cameras as a response to calls for increased accountability in the wake of high-profile shootings, but a study released Monday found that juries are less likely to blame officers for incidents based on footage from body cameras versus dashboard cameras.
Read moreBlaming an outdated law for shielding Grindr, a lawyer for a New Yorker whose ex impersonated him on the gay dating app pushed the Second Circuit to revive their suit Monday.
Read moreA homeowner says her house exploded and burned, hospitalizing her, because Pacific Gas and Electric let its natural gas line deteriorate and gas accumulate in the crawl space, in Santa Clara County Court.
Read moreA federal judge overseeing utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric’s conduct in the wake of a criminal conviction for a 2010 pipeline blast that leveled a neighborhood demanded answers about the utility’s safety protocols on Tuesday amid liability concerns for the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit judge suggested Thursday that the family of a 32-year-old woman shot dead on a San Francisco pier might get a second chance to hold the city liable for not helping immigration police deport her suspected killer.
Read moreA California judge on Wednesday declined to rule on whether an elderly couple can take Monsanto to court early next year over claims the Roundup weed killer caused their cancers, despite tentatively denying the San Francisco Bay Area couple’s request.
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Although she refused to overturn a jury verdict against Monsanto finding its weed killer Roundup caused
Read moreTwo sagging Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power lines made contact and ignited a blaze last year that killed four people and injured a firefighter in Northern California, fire officials said Tuesday about the latest wildfire to be blamed on power lines.
Read moreIn a massive collection of property damage lawsuits stemming from the largest single wildfire in modern California history, a Los Angeles County judge said Thursday that Southern California Edison can’t escape a state law holding utilities financially liable when their equipment is determined to be the cause of a blaze.
Read moreUtilities in California will be able to bill customers to help pay for legal settlements associated with the catastrophic wildfires in 2017, thanks to Governor Jerry Brown’s signature on a hotly contested bill Friday.
Read moreWith a deadly wildfire churning through dry foothills outside Yosemite National Park, California Gov. Jerry Brown wants sweeping changes that could help utilities responsible for starting fires dodge financial penalties.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges owe their students safety and protection from foreseeable violence in the classroom, reversing an appeals court’s finding that UCLA did not have a duty to protect a student who was attacked with a knife by a classmate in a chemistry lab.
Read moreRelatives of three people killed in the 2015 terror attack in San Bernardino, California, lobbied a federal judge Monday for another chance at a lawsuit that lays some of the blame for the attack on the county, the federal government and others.
Read moreParents claim their 3-year-old toddler fell into an open septic tank in a public park in Florida and drowned in it.
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A federal judge dismissed a second lawsuit accusing Black Lives Matter and several of the movement’s leaders of inciting violence that culminated in a gunman’s deadly attack on Louisiana police officers last year.
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A Minnesota man must face a claim that he is responsible for the near-drowning of his 4-year-old great nephew, the state’s highest court ruled, reversing a lower court’s decision that the boy should have known it was too dangerous to swim alone.
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