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A Texas man was awarded $5.5 million late last month as part of his lawsuit against a restaurant, claiming the establishment overserved him alcohol, which contributed to the injuries he sustained during an altercation with a fellow patron later that night, Houston Chronicle reports. Daniel Rawls filed a lawsuit in May, accusing La Fogata Mexican Grill, owner Lourdes […]
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space company, filed a federal lawsuit Friday over NASA awarding a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to Elon Musk’s rival company SpaceX. Bezos founded the company to pursue commercial space flight, and after a trip from Texas last month, offered NASA $2 billion to change its mind about the contract. The filing mentioned “NASA’s unlawful […]
Rihanna’s Fenty brand has been sued by a musical artist who alleges that she received death threats because the company played the wrong version of her song during Savage X Fenty’s 2020 fall show. The musical artist—who filed the suit anonymously—said that Fenty played the wrong version of her song, titled “Doom,” that includes a […]
A Maryland widow is suing a funeral home for allegedly staging her husband’s cremation. According to the Baltimore Sun, 52-year-old Demetra Street filed the federal lawsuit last week in the US District Court for the District of Maryland. The woman claims Wylie Funeral Homes conducted a “sham” service for her husband, Ivan T. Street, back in January, just […]
In a statement put out on Monday, Mike Richards, who is rumored to be the front-runner to replace Alex Trebek as the permanent host of Jeopardy!, addressed past discrimination lawsuits that came up from his time as a producer on The Price is Right. For context, two lawsuits from more than a decade ago, which were brought up after it was reported […]
ABC News has learned that an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit on Monday against Prince Andrew, accusing the Duke of York of sexually abusing her on several occasions when she was under the age of 18. Virginia Roberts Giuffre is accusing Andrew of sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and seeks unspecified […]
Mexico filed a lawsuit against a number of U.S.-based gun manufacturers on Wednesday, accusing them of “actively facilitating the unlawful trafficking of their guns to drug cartels,” NBC News reports. The suit alleges that over 500,000 firearms are smuggled from the United States into Mexico every year, with more than 340,000 belonging to U.S. companies such […]
Autumn Knepper and Adam Marsh, a couple living in Vancouver, Washington, say that they’re being sued for $112,000 over a pair of one-star reviews they left a local roofing company. The saga started when the couple’s roof began leaking a few months ago. According to KGW, their landlord had Executive Roof Services (ERS) do an inspection, with the […]
Four of the biggest drug companies in the world have agreed to pay $26 billion to settle an opioid crisis lawsuit. According to NBC News, a group of state attorneys general confirmed the landmark deal Wednesday, after years of negotiations with Johnson & Johnson and drug distributors AmerisourceBergen Corp., Cardinal Health Inc., and McKesson Corp. The companies are accused of […]
It’s another W for Cardi B. Back in 2019, blogger Latasha K countersued the Invasion of Privacy rapper over alleged threats, emotional distress, and assault. But according to legal documents obtained by TMZ, a judge has dismissed Latasha’s complaint, determining the plaintiff failed to provide evidence for any of her claims. “Instead, [Latasha] has only made allegations that others who […]
