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LeSean McCoy, one of the NFL’s best running backs, has been sued by a woman who claims he treated her very poorly during a recent party bus jaunt.

In documents obtained by TMZ, an unidentified female alleges that the Eagles star invited 15 members of the opposite sex to get down with him on a bus from Philadelphia to New York City on [...]

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Apple has been sued over allegations that the power flex cable in the iPhone 4 was defective. According to the lawsuit, Apple decided not to disclose this defect in order to sell more units. Debra Hilton has filed a class action lawsuit in San Jose, California on behalf of iPhone 4 purchasers. The lawsuit demands over $5 million from Apple.

As evidence for the lawsuit, Hilton cites posts [...]

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Walmart filed a lawsuit last week against the United Food and Commercial Workers and group the union runs called OURWalmart, alleging the two have been staging illegal protests at the retail giant’s California stores. The suit claims the union activists were trespassing on the stores, blocking customer access and other disruptive activities.

The UFCW, whose members include workers for Walmart’s rivals, has staged a running battle with [...]

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The massive legal action brought by former players against the National Football League has been known as a concussion lawsuit.

But make no mistake, experts say. The brain degeneration known as CTE is at the heart of the civil suits by more than 5,000 former players and surviving family members that are now pending in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.

Bob Fitzsimmons, a Wheeling, W.Va., lawyer who helped [...]

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R&B star Usher has been slapped with a lawsuit by a former nanny who is suing the singer for wrongful termination.

Cecilia Duncan claims that the Yeah! hitmaker hired her as a part-time nanny in December, 2010, but that she regularly worked much longer hours to care for the star’s two sons, Usher Raymond V, five, and Naviyd Ely, four, often [...]

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The Grand Prairie school district has been sued over its at-large system of electing trustees in the latest lawsuit seeking single-member districts to afford Hispanics more say in local elections.

The school district is the fourth area entity in recent years sued by residents represented by the law firm of Bickel & Brewer. The firm has previously sued for single-member election districts in Farmers Branch, Irving and [...]

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The Minnesota Court of Appeals has sent a lawsuit against the city of St. Paul over street assessments back to Ramsey County District Court, reigniting a case that had been tossed out by the lower court late last year.

Two Lowertown churches, the First Baptist Church of St. Paul and St. Mary’s Church, sued the city of St. Paul last year, arguing that it was unfair [...]

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When an entertainment company spends years winking to its audience about the staged nature of its reality programming, what happens when someone attempts to convince a judge it’s too real?

Last month, Andrew Green sued World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., over alleged injuries he suffered at the hands of wrestler Paul D. Wight, Jr., aka the “Big Show.” Green was employed by the WWE as a road producer for digital production and was [...]

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The National Hockey League has been hit by a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of late enforcer Derek Boogaard.

The family says the NHL is responsible for the brain damage that Boogaard sustained during six seasons as an enforcer in the league and for his addiction to prescription painkillers.

NHL deputy commissioner [...]

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A senior sales representative for Merck & Co has sued the drugmaker for more than $100 million, alleging it discriminates against female employees in terms of pay and advancement, particularly pregnant employees and women with children.

The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, alleges the No. 2 U.S. drugmaker engages in “systematic, companywide discriminatory treatment of its female employees on the basis of their gender and their taking federal and state-protected pregnancy leave.”

Merck officials could not be reached [...]

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