A 29-year-old man who was knocked unconscious when a Chicago police officer body slammed him onto a street curb sued the city and the officer on Thursday, saying the officer should have known the maneuver was dangerous because he is trained in martial arts. The officer detained Bernard Kersh at a South Side bus stop on Thanksgiving for drinking alcohol…

A former special education student alleges a teacher sexually abused him on more than 30 occasions, the Daily Herald reports.

A Chicago couple who purchased a luxury home spotlighted on the hit HGTV show “Windy City Rehab” has filed suit against the stars of the show, alleging a series of problems with the $1.36 million property.

A Chicago couple who is suing the stars of the HGTV show “Windy City Rehab” over their purchase of a luxury home featured on the show wants to add the network’s parent company to their lawsuit, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The City of Chicago is suing a Rockford-based coffee company for trademark infringement, claiming the company’s logo is an imitation of the Chicago Fire Department’s symbol.

The City of Chicago is suing a Rockford-based coffee company for trademark infringement, claiming the company’s logo is an imitation of the Chicago Fire Department’s symbol. Fire Department Coffee and the Fire Department both feature logos that consist of the letters D, F and C intertwined in a stylized monogram, which is likely to confuse consumers into thinking the...

Three flight attendants are suing Chicago-based Boeing, claiming they were sickened by toxic air that seeped into the cabin due to a design flaw on some of the company’s airplanes.

Twelve former students of a man convicted of sexually abusing them when he was their teacher at a San Francisco Bay Area school will receive a combined $10.9 million to settle a lawsuit against the school, an attorney said.

New York Attorney General Letitia James and District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine are co-leading a lawsuit filed Thursday to stop the Trump Administration from eliminating food assistance for nearly 700,000 Americans, James’ office said.   The lawsuit, which was joined by 13 attorney generals — including those for New Jersey and Connecticut — as well as New York…

A lawsuit filed by prosecutors in the Virgin Islands says multimillionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein used two private islands in the U.S. territory to engage in a nearly two-decade conspiracy to traffic and abuse girls. At one point, the suit filed Wednesday alleges, Epstein and associates organized a search party to catch a 15-year-old victim trying to swim away,...

A Queens woman who works for JetBlue says she was sexually assaulted by a flight attendant after a night out with a few other coworkers — and alleges the airline failed to take action even after its investigation substantiated her allegations, according to a lawsuit filed last week. The employee, only identified in the lawsuit as Jane Doe, is suing…

A Harvard University law professor announced Monday that he is suing The New York Times for what he calls “clickbait defamation” over a story the newspaper published related to donations from financier Jeffrey Epstein. Lawrence Lessig filed the lawsuit in response to a story the Times published on Sept. 14 about his thoughts on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology receiving…

A Chicago couple who purchased a luxury home spotlighted on the hit HGTV show “Windy City Rehab” has filed suit against the stars of the show, alleging a series of problems with the $1.36 million property.

A Chicago couple who purchased a luxury home spotlighted on the hit HGTV show “Windy City Rehab” has filed suit against the stars of the show, alleging a series of problems with the $1.36 million property.

IKEA has agreed to pay $46 million to the parents of a 2-year-old boy who died of injuries suffered when a 70-pound (32-kilogram) recalled dresser tipped over onto him, the family’s lawyers said Monday.

Six teachers from Hinsdale South High School who were diagnosed with cancer announced they filed a lawsuit against Sterigenics, alleging emissions from the company’s plant caused their cancer. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

An 18-year-old Colorado woman’s breast-enhancement surgery in August went wrong, putting her in a coma in which she has remained since, her parents allege in a lawsuit. Emmalyn Nguyen’s parents allege negligence in a lawsuit filed in Arapahoe County Court against the doctor and nurse who allegedly administered anesthesia to the young woman before her Aug. 1 surgery. The...

The parents of the 18-month-old girl who fell to her death on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship said enduring the pain of her loss and taking legal action has “been too much for all of us” after filing a lawsuit against the cruise line on Wednesday....

Kim and Alan Wiegand spoke with NBC’s Kerry Sanders in an interview that aired on...

Elon Musk has owned up to insulting a British spelunker in a rash tweet, but wouldn’t concede on the witness stand that he called the man a pedophile. The Tesla CEO returns to the witness stand Wednesday after spending several hours at his defamation trial trying to dance around the meaning of the “pedo guy” tweet he aimed at...

A second victim came forward publicly on Monday with allegations she was sexually assaulted after going into a bar five years ago in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. NBC 5’s Lisa Chavarria reports.