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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 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.

Students are suing Northeastern University to the tune of $50 million after the school closed campus amid the coronavirus pandemic. A class-action lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court, alleges the school enriched itself and breached its contract with students still paying tuition during the shutdown, according to the Boston Herald. The lead plaintiff, Manny Chong, argues online courses…

Students are suing Northeastern University for $50 million, alleging the school has unjustly enriched itself and breached their contract amid coronavirus-induced campus closures, the Boston Herald reports

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

A group of Boston University students who have been off-campus since early March due to the coronavirus have filed a lawsuit against the school alleging that they were not properly reimbursed for certain fees they already paid for the spring semester. Julia Dutra, a film and television major from New Jersey, is named as the lead plaintiff in the class-action…

Students lost two month of the in-person college experience, plaintiffs allege in a lawsuit against Boston University.

Two University of Vermont students have filed a class-action lawsuit against the school seeking reimbursement of tuition and other fees, saying they have lost the benefit of in-person instruction and other activities when the campus closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. The students from New York and the United Kingdom filed the complaint in federal court in Burlington on Wednesday….

A pair of fans in New York sued Major League Baseball, Commissioner Rob Manfred and the 30 teams, asking for their money back for tickets and for certification of class-action status.

GOJO, the maker of Purell hand sanitizer, is facing two class-action lawsuits accusing it of “misleading claims” that it can prevent “99.9% of illness-causing germs,” NBC News reports.

A U.S. naval officer who is facing involuntary discharge because of a policy restricting transgender people from military service has filed a lawsuit that aims to force defense officials to allow her to continue serving. The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday, is the first legal challenge to the policy since rules went into effect in April 2019 stripping transgender troops of…

A Kansas man who spent 23 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit was granted more than $1.5 million in compensation under the state’s mistaken-conviction statute.

The families of three female high school runners filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block transgender athletes in Connecticut from participating in girls sports. Selina Soule, of Glastonbury High School, Alanna Smith, of Danbury High School, and Chelsea Mitchell, of Canton High School, are represented by the conservative nonprofit organization Alliance Defending Freedom. The organization argues that allowing athletes…

One of the largest unions in Boston has filed a lawsuit against Mayor Marty Walsh’s administration alleging repeated violations to the union’s collective bargaining agreement. The lawsuit filed by Boston Fire Fighters Local 718 names the city and Fire Commissioner Joseph Finn and cites three instances where a firefighter’s status was changed from injured leave to sick leave or...

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.

A blind student sued her Massachusetts college, claiming the school violated her rights by separating her from her service dog and failing to accommodate her needs. Isabella Scott, who is legally blind, said her teachers insisted that having her service dog in lab classes at Curry College, in Milton, was a violation of federal health and safety standards. Scott filed…

Opening statements began Tuesday in a medical malpractice trial involving a Boston hospital and the family of a Connecticut teen who was placed into state custody after a dispute over her diagnosis. The family of Justina Pelletier has filed a lawsuit against Boston Children’s Hospital, saying Pelletier, then 14, was placed in Massachusetts state custody and “held against her will”…

The family of Justina Pelletier is suing for malpractice following their claims that she was held by Boston Children’s Hospital against her will.