UPDATED: April 1, 2019 Recently, it has surfaced that the well-known Sackler family, who are also the founders of Purdue Pharma, are currently under investigation for their company’s role with the current opioid epidemic in America. Purdue and the Sacklers are now facing more than 1,600 lawsuits against them. However, it has been reported on Monday that […]

UPDATED: 2019/03/15 12:00PM The United State Securities and Exchange Commission (aka the SEC) is suing Volkswagen and alleging that they defrauded their investors during their diesel emissions scandal. Volkswagen’s former chief executive, Martin Winterkorn, is also named in the lawsuit. If you’re unfamiliar with the scandal, from April 2014 to May 2015, the German auto

UPDATED: 2019/03/15 12:00PM In a big win for the parents of the children who were killed at Sandy Hook and a loss for the firearms industry, the Connecticut Supreme Court cleared the way for a lawsuit against the companies who manufactured and sold the semiautomatic rifle that was used by the gunman at the tragic

UPDATED: 2019/03/14 6:00PM Manhattan law firm Willkie, Farr & Gallagher has put Gordon Caplan on a leave of absence. Caplan is accused of paying $75,000 to have a proctor correct the answers on his daughter’s ACT exam after she took it as part of a multi-million dollar scheme involving celebrities and wealthy people cheating to

UPDATED 2019/03/04 2:00PM Denise Shull, 59, is suing Showtime’s Billions for copyright infringement and she is providing emails to prove it. She says that the cable television show infringed on her life as “the world’s only female hedge fund performance coach” and her book on finance “Market Mind Games: A Radical Psychology of Investing, Trading

UPDATED 2019/03/01 3:00PM A woman who attended the legendary fiasco known as Fyre Festival is suing Netflix for stealing her footage of the event. Clarissa Cardenas claims that in 2017, she shot footage of her horrendous experience in the Bahamas, and that Netflix used the video in its documentary about Fyre Festival without licensing it

UPDATED: 2019/02/28 3:00PM A theatre in Buffalo, New York is being forced to shut down its production of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The Kavinoky Theatre at D’Youville College says that it is over a licensing dispute that is closing productions of the play at theaters across the country in favor of the current

UPDATED 2019/02/25 A former Trump staffer who worked on his 2016 presidential campaign says that Trump kissed her without her consent at a gathering of supporters before a Florida rally. Alva Johnson is alleging in her lawsuit that the now-president grabbed her hand and leaned in to kiss her on the lips outside of a

UPDATED: 2019/02/20 5:00PM Attorneys for Nick Sandmann, a Kentucky high school student who found himself at the center of a huge viral video controversy last month, are suing The Washington Post and seeking $250 million in damages. Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High School was in DC for a March for Life rally, donning

UPDATED: 2019/02/19 2:00PM President Trump declared on Friday, February 15th, that he would spend billions of dollar more on his border wall than Congress had granted him, using his emergency powers to do so. Now, 16 states have challenged President Trump on Monday, February 18th in court over his plan to fund his multi-billion dollar