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In the wake of the train crash in East Palestine, Ohio that sent plumes of acrid smoke and toxic chemicals into the environment, residents have joined in filing at least four class-action lawsuits against Norfolk Southern railway for toxic exposure...

More plaintiffs came forward in October in a sexual misconduct lawsuit filed last summer against the former University of San Francisco Dons baseball coaches Nino Giarratano and Troy Nakamura, USF, and the NCAA. The original complaint cites that the coaches...

The pesticide industry, like Big Oil and Big Tobacco before it, has for decades used deception to sell the message that its products are safe and necessary to expand world food production. But global studies prove otherwise. Pesticides, the blanket...

In the wake of hundreds of layoffs in November and thousands of lawsuits over its vaping products, Juul Labs has secured an equity investment, dodging bankruptcy as it reaches settlements in more than 5,000 cases. About 10,000 plaintiffs, including e-cigarette...

A Senate bill meant to protect U.S. Marine veterans from being exploited will severely limit their access to competent attorneys in lawsuits against the government, critics say. The Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 was enacted to permit Marines and...

The father of a preterm baby who died in neonatal intensive care within a month of birth has joined hundreds of other parents who claim manufacturers knew, but didn’t warn customers, about the deadly risk associated with some baby formulas....

Mediation continues, and plaintiffs on October 11 asked the court to hold 3M solely and independently liable for injuries caused by defective earplugs manufactured by its subsidiary, Aearo Technologies. 3M is trying to force resolution of the lawsuits into bankruptcy...

In back-to-back hearings on July 27, the federal judge overseeing more than 230,000 consolidated lawsuits against 3M Company and its subsidiary questioned whether 3M was using bankruptcy to halt the suits; while later that day in bankruptcy court, 3M's subsidiary...

On June 13, the U.S. Supreme Court took no action to uphold or reject a $25 million appeals court damages award linking a popular weedkiller to cancer. The decades that Edwin Hardeman and his wife spent nurturing 56 acres of...

When Kevin D. Hardwick joined the fire service, his mission was to serve his community. Forty-six years later, the Glendale, Ohio fire chief is reaching beyond smoke and deadly blazes to force companies responsible for manufacturing ‘forever chemicals’ to pay...