September 25, 2025
Sunbeam Products Inc. and its parent Newell Brands Inc. were hit with a lawsuit in Georgia federal court on Wednesday brought by a woman who alleges she was able to remove the lid from a Sunbeam pressure cooker while it was still under pressure, causing her to be seriously burned.
September 25, 2025
A seafood wholesaler violated federal law by refusing to hire women for warehouse jobs based on the assumption that they couldn't lift heavy stock, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a Georgia federal court.
September 24, 2025
A police department in a Georgia city failed to pay a veteran officer for the time he spent conducting field training, then transferred him to a front desk security guard role after he complained about the missing wages, according to a suit in federal court.
September 23, 2025
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission hit a Russian national with a civil suit Monday, accusing him of hijacking hundreds of individual consumer brokerage accounts to run a $31 million pump-and-dump scheme with low-volume stocks and options.
September 19, 2025
Lyft Inc. was sued in Georgia federal court by an unnamed Georgian who alleged that she and other Lyft passengers have become victims of sexual assault and rape because of the company's failure to "adopt and implement reasonable driver monitoring procedures designed to protect the safety of its passengers."
September 12, 2025
A man who successfully brought an excessive force claim against former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill for strapping him in a chair for so long his wrists became scarred has now filed a Georgia federal suit against a jail medical provider, its director and two people he called "Hill's designated enforcers."
September 10, 2025
Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor who exited the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump after his romantic relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was revealed, has accused AT&T of unlawfully releasing "breathtaking" amounts of his personal cellphone data to defendants in the case.
September 02, 2025
A metro Atlanta school district accused of denying full educational opportunities to a student with autism has asked a Georgia federal court to overturn a state administrative law judge's ruling ordering the district to reimburse the student's mother nearly $56,000 for private educational costs.
August 28, 2025
A Georgia attorney has filed suit against her former employer, John Foy and Associates PC, over "threatening emails" she said she received after she was fired and a final paycheck that she reportedly never got.
August 25, 2025
A group of Atlanta-area hotel owners and operators, including Ritz-Carlton Buckhead, were sued in Georgia federal court by a woman who alleged that they did nothing to prevent her from being trafficked for sex as a minor even at their properties though the signs were blatant.