Lawsuit

A British judge has rejected an attempt by tabloid newspaper The Sun to quash a libel suit brought by actor Johnny Depp over an article claiming he abused his ex-wife.

New court documents from Meghan Markle’s ongoing lawsuit against the Mail on Sunday reveal the Duchess of Sussex felt “unprotected” by the Royal Family.

A young basketball standout from Chicago’s Far South Side is now bed-ridden with multiple leg and pelvic fractures after her family said she was recklessly run over by a Chicago Police Department vehicle. According to the family’s lawsuit against the city, Astarte Washington, 15, was walking to her home in the Roseland neighborhood with her brother on May 31 when…

Lawyers for British tabloid The Sun have urged a judge to throw out Johnny Depp’s libel claim against the paper.

Lawyers for the helicopter pilot being sued by Kobe Bryant’s widow asked that her lawsuit be moved out of Los Angeles, claiming the defense can’t get a fair trial in the Lakers’ backyard.

A Champaign County judge ruled Monday he will allow a former University of Illinois police officer accused of raping four women to proceed in his case without a lawyer. The News-Gazette in Champaign reports Jerald Sandage told Judge Roger Webber he understood he had a right to an attorney and that one would be appointed if he couldn’t afford one....

Six women have filed civil lawsuits against USA Swimming, its local associations in California and three now-banned coaches claiming the national governing body failed to protect them from abuse by those coaches

Attorneys for the parents of a disabled teen in Ohio say they have settled a lawsuit over his forced baptism at a church picnic in 2016.

Two men are bringing lawsuit for being wrongfully convicted of a 2003 murder that put them in prison for more than 16 years. NBC 5’s Christian Farr reports.

Two NFL players said they were sexually harassed and assaulted by a female passenger on a United Airlines flight and accused two flight attendants of failing to properly respond to their complaints, according to NBC News.

Multiple unemployed Illinois residents and business owners have filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Illinois and Gov. J.B. Pritzker claiming they’ve suffered “adverse economic consequences” caused by the governor’s stay-at-home order. Those who filed the lawsuit also demand compensation, saying their “livelihoods and income were taken for a public purpose, namely to battle a public health emergency,”...

Students at more than 25 universities are filing lawsuits demanding tuition refunds from their schools after finding that the online classes they’re being offered don’t match up to the classroom experience

Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths, the nation’s nursing homes are pushing to get states to grant them emergency protection from lawsuits alleging inadequate care

The Duchess of Sussex has lost an early round in a London court where a judge dismissed parts of her lawsuit against the publisher of a British newspaper that put out excerpts of a letter to her estranged father

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has officially filed an appeal aimed at overturning a ruling by a southern Illinois judge, who issued a temporary restraining order to a state lawmaker regarding Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s modified stay-at-home order taking effect on May 1. The appeal requests the decision by Clay County Circuit Court Judge Michael McHaney be reversed and vacated...

While the state is working on its appeal to the lawsuit challenging Gov. Pritzker’s stay-at-home order, there’s word at least one other lawsuit may be filed soon. NBC 5 Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker says the state’s stay-at-home order is “still very much in effect,” despite a court ruling that granted a temporary restraining order for a southern Illinois lawmaker. “This ruling only applies to one person, because it was only ever about one person,” Pritzker said Tuesday. He noted, however, that the risk from the court’s decision, which exempts...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has filed a notice of appeal aimed at overturning a ruling by a southern Illinois judge, who issued a temporary restraining order to a state lawmaker regarding the modified stay-at-home order restrictions taking effect on May 1. Pritzker, through Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, plans to request the decision be reversed and vacated to “dissolve the temporary…

A judge has ruled against Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, issuing a restraining order to a lawmaker suing over the extension of the state’s stay-at-home order, potentially putting the statewide plan in jeopardy. Clay County Circuit Court Judge Michael McHaney ruled against Pritzker’s order, granting a restraining order to state Rep. Darren Bailey, who filed the lawsuit against the governor....

A judge has ruled against Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, issuing a restraining order to a lawmaker suing over the extension of the state’s stay-at-home order, potentially putting the statewide plan in jeopardy. Susan Carlson reports.