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Alaska Airlines announced Thursday it had grounded a Seattle-based pilot after his female co-pilot filed a lawsuit claiming that the male captain raped and drugged her on a June 2017 work trip.

BlackBerry has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, alleging patent infringement.
According to CNN, BlackBerry claimed in their lawsuit “that the social media companies developed messaging applications that ‘co-opt BlackBerry’s innovations’ by using patented features touching on security, the user interface, and battery life.”

The promoter of the failed Fyre Festival in the Bahamas — once billed as the “cultural experience of the decade” — pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges Tuesday, agreeing to serve up to a decade in prison for lying to investors who lost over $26 million.

A new lawsuit alleges that YouTube stopped hiring white and Asian males to technical roles last year as they didn’t help the company improve employee diversity.

The lawsuit between Waymo and Uber has been dismissed as the tech companies reached a surprise settlement.

A California family is suing the coffee retailer Starbucks after a two-year-old girl allegedly drank a beverage containing a barista’s blood, the family’s attorneys announced Wednesday.

A San Francisco federal appeals court ruled Twitter is not responsible for the ISIS murder of two Americans.

A nurse who worked at a Denver hospital is filing a lawsuit against her former employer claiming that she was fired for discussing her support for President Trump.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio filed a lawsuit claiming the oil industry caused the climate change that spawned Superstorm Sandy.

A student at the University of California San Diego is suing the school after she was hit by a car during an anti-Trump protest that involved blocking traffic on a freeway.

Apple is being sued after the company admitted to slowing down older iPhone models in a statement this week.

Ashley Madison, the hookup service for cheating partners, has threatened to sue competitor CasualX over alleged similarities in their marketing.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were slapped with a lawsuit alleging that they made serious omissions on their public disclosure forms.

A New York appeals court tossed out a $4 million defamation suit against President Donald Trump from a Republican consultant alleging that the president damaged her career by calling her a “real dummy” on Twitter.

An out-of-court settlement was reached in a libel lawsuit filed by first lady Melania Trump over an article in a magazine published in her home country that claimed she worked as a paid escort during an international modeling career that pre-dated her marriage to President Donald Trump.

The federal government used $220,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit against a Democrat lawmaker, according to a report.

Director Bryan Singer is being sued for allegedly raping and forcibly performing oral sex on a 17-year-old boy in 2003.

Former CBS producer Erin Gee has made public a federal lawsuit she filed alleging sex discrimination during her 17-year tenure with the media outlet.

A lawsuit filed by two women who claim to have been raped by Uber drivers is requesting all data on assaults from the company.

A California woman filed a lawsuit against the cosmetics retailer Sephora, claiming that a lipstick sample from the store gave her oral herpes.

A South Carolina police officer fired for wearing underwear bearing the Confederate flag will receive $55,000 as part of a settlement with the city of North Charleston, a city attorney announced Friday.

If our corrupt media does not dig into what Disney and ABC News knew and when they knew about Harvey Weinstein and Mark Halperin, lawsuits might be the only way to get to the truth.

The first, of what is almost certainly going to be a flood of lawsuits, was filed Tuesday against the Weinstein Company by actress Dominique Huett, who claims she was sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein.

Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who ran the Walt Disney Company during the Harvey Weinstein years (1993-2005), have both denied any knowledge of Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct during those years. This would include any sexual harassment settlements made during that time. The Weinstein Company also denies any knowledge. These denials could be tested in a court of law should those alleging harassment and abuse choose to press the issue of corporate liability.

Google has been accused of racketeering in a new lawsuit, which claims the company “has a pattern of stealing trade secrets from people it first invites to collaborate,” according to a report.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup has delayed the trial for Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber and criticised both companies’ lawyers for “suspicious” actions.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against the state of Michigan for giving adoption agencies the right to deny adoption to same-sex couples, according to a report.

An online chatbot which was originally created to help users overturn parking tickets could be used by those affected by the Equifax data breach to help sue the company for up to $25,000.

Following their acquisition of Yahoo’s Internet services, Verizon is reportedly unable to rid itself of a number of lawsuits relating to a 2013 data breach.

The family of an inmate who died in Milwaukee County Jail reportedly named Sheriff David Clarke and Milwaukee County as defendants in a civil rights lawsuit filed Monday.

An Oklahoma federal judge ruled that a former middle school teacher convicted of raping a student must pay the victim $1 million for intentionally inflicting emotional distress.

The city of Long Beach, California, awarded a Muslim woman $85,000 Tuesday after she sued the city’s police department for forcibly removing her hijab while arresting her in May 2015.

Taylor Swift has testified in her trial accusing a radio host of groping her that “he grabbed my ass underneath my skirt” when the two posed for a photo together before her 2013 performance in Denver.

Two political groups for “transgender” people in the military have asked a court to enshrine the transgender ideology in the constitution, despite the lack of relevant laws or public support.

Inc. writer Suzanne Lucas has predicted that a lawsuit against Google will be forthcoming, after explaining why the company’s firing of employee James Damore was in her opinion illegal.

Over 60 women are reportedly considering a sexism and “pay gap” lawsuit against Google, according to the Guardian.