Legal

A Georgia financial adviser, 39-year-old Christopher Burns, has been ordered to pay $12 million to more than 90 victims in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina.

Insurance company Geico was forced to pay out $5.2 million to a woman who caught a sexually transmitted disease in a policyholder's vehicle.

An Australian court ordered Google to pay a former lawmaker $515,000 over its failure to remove defamatory YouTube videos that drove him out of politics.

A woman who was shot in a New York City subway shooting in April is suing the manufacturer of the gun the suspect allegedly used in the crime.

Twitter shareholders allege Musk is playing fast and loose with his $44B takeover plan. A group of shareholders has sued Musk in a California federal court.

Google's legal troubles with the federal government started with a Justice Department investigation and developed into a multi-state effort campaign over Google's ad practices.

Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr in early April 2022 had pledged to address the issue and drop cases, but legal representatives for the victims claim that no charges have been dropped in that time.

Two more defendants have pleaded guilty for their role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to manipulate the Amazon Marketplace e-commerce platform.

The owner of an oil pipeline that spewed thousands of barrels of crude oil onto Southern California beaches in 2015 has agreed to pay $230 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by fishermen and property owners, court documents show.

A federal judge has found that Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk's 2018 tweets that funding was secured to take the automaker private were reckless.

Cromwell — who credits himself on Twitter as an “Ethical vegan, Social change activist” — and a few protestors temporarily shut down a Manhattan franchise.

Disney CEO Bob Chapek was not shy about sharing his thoughts on Florida's Parental Rights in Education bill but has yet to say anything regarding the leaked SCOTUS draft opinion.

The Amazon warehouse in Staten Island held the first successful organizing effort in the company's history.

Netflix investors have filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the streaming behemoth of making false or misleading statements about its business, operations and prospects after it reported a loss of 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022.

Intuit will suspend TurboTax's "free, free, free" ad campaign and provide restitution to nearly 4.4 million consumers who used the Free Edition for tax years 2016 through 2018.

Moderna faces multiple lawsuits over its COVID-19 vaccine which could leave taxpayers paying the tab.

A Canadian pizza delivery driver has filed a lawsuit against 16 of his friends who won a $1 million lottery, claiming the group owes him a share of the prize.

To date, at least 230 cases have been filed against Hertz through an expansive lawsuit in Delaware bankruptcy court seeking over $750 million in damages.

Musk and Tesla accused the regulator of "weaponizing" the agreement to harass them with "unrelenting investigation" and "chill" Musk's exercise of First Amendment rights.

A former eBay Inc. executive pleaded guilty Monday to his role in a harassment campaign targeting a Massachusetts couple who published a newsletter executives viewed as critical of the company.