Uber’s very bad February just got worse. Google’s (er, Alphabet’s) self-driving car company, Waymo, filed a lawsuit against Uber on Thursday, claiming Uber stole its design for a laser-scanning detection system from Waymo. The heart of the claim focuses on Otto, a self-driving trucking company founded by former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski and acquired by Uber for $680 million in August …
LuLaRoe, a multilevel marketer of brightly colored women’s fashions whose popularity has surged in recent years — especially among millennials who sell the wares at home gatherings or in online forums — is facing a federal lawsuit accusing it of collecting sales taxes from customers in states that don’t levy one on clothing. The company also is facing criticism over the quality of its …
The city is delaying borrowing $300 million to support a massive rebuild of the city’s parks, libraries and community centers as a lawsuit over the new sugar-sweetened beverage tax snakes through the courts system. Mike Dunn, a spokesman for Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration, told Billy Penn Tuesday that in addition to delaying the borrowing of that $300 million, the city …
The American Civil Liberties Union in Wisconsin is alleging in a lawsuit that Milwaukee police are operating a stop-and-frisk program mostly targeting black and Latino residents who are often detained without cause. The lawsuit being filed in federal court Wednesday is on behalf of six black and Latino plaintiffs who say they’ve been stopped once or multiple times without a …
The Milwaukee Police Department will need to defend its controversial use of stop-and-frisk policies in light of a class-action lawsuit lodged by the American Civil Liberties Union, according to a report. The nonprofit is representing Charles Collins, 67, and numerous others in the Wisconsin city, with a class-action case accusing the police force led by Chief Edward Flynn of racially profiling …
Just days before a state competition, a transgender Euless Trinity High School wrestler has been put into the middle of a lawsuit …
More than 29 million Americans live with diabetes, and for some six million of them, insulin is a life or death medication. Between 2002 and 2013, the price of insulin more than tripled, to more than $700 per patient. A federal lawsuit accuses the three insulin manufacturers of conspiring to raise their prices.
In 2015, Texas became the only state in the country to pass a law protecting a landlord’s ability to refuse to accept housing vouchers. A new federal lawsuit filed last week alleges that law is unconstitutional and violates the Fair Housing Act.
A federal judge has cleared the way for a lead and copper mining company’s lawsuit against Union Pacific over lead pollution to move forward. This lawsuit related to contamination in Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Basin is one of several pending between Tucson, Arizona-based Asarco and Omaha, Nebraska-based Union Pacific. A judge decided last week to reject Union Pacific’s motion for summary judgment in …
Rep. William Lacy Clay plans to file a federal lawsuit here Tuesday alleging that the constitutional rights of former St. Louis student David Pulphus were violated when the Architect of the Capitol ordered the removal of Pulphus’s painting from a congressional display. “Seven months after being displayed as part of a public exhibit, a …