Lawsuits

Papa John’s International faces several significant lawsuits ranging from founder John Schnatter’s breach of contract case against ad firm Laundry Service to class action employment claims. Most notably, a September 2025 appeals court ruling cleared the way for Schnatter’s case to proceed to jury trial after five years of litigation over leaked conference call recordings….

“Vanderpump Villa” personality Marciano Brunette filed a defamation lawsuit on December 5, 2024, against “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Demi Engemann and producer Jeff Jenkins Productions. Brunette alleges Engemann falsely labeled him a “sexual predator” and accused him of sexual assault on Hulu’s Season 3 of “Mormon Wives” to create a dramatic storyline. The…

Former NBA champion Matt Barnes announced plans to file defamation lawsuits against gossip blogger Tasha K (Latasha Kebe) and an unidentified woman who allegedly extorted him for $61,000 using AI-generated deepfake content. Barnes claims the woman used artificial intelligence to create fake audio, videos, and text messages depicting him as unfaithful to his fiancée Anansa…

Country music icon Garth Brooks faces devastating sexual assault allegations from his former hairstylist “Jane Roe,” who claims he raped her in a Los Angeles hotel room in May 2019, held her upside down by her feet during the assault, and subjected her to repeated sexual harassment. In November 2025, Jane Roe filed an appeal…

Abbott Laboratories faces three major legal battles as of December 2025: 774 pending lawsuits in federal court alleging its Similac baby formula causes necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in premature infants, a shareholder derivative lawsuit over the 2022 infant formula contamination crisis, and a November 2025 Fair Labor Standards Act collective action over unpaid overtime. The NEC…

Joi Dickerson-Neal filed a sexual assault lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs in November 2023 alleging he drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1991, videotaped the assault without her consent, and distributed the footage as “revenge porn.” The case remains pending as of December 2025, filed under New York’s Adult Survivors Act—a groundbreaking law that opened…

BREAKING (December 2, 2025): Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a major consumer fraud lawsuit against Temu on December 2, 2025, accusing the Chinese shopping app of operating as “malware and spyware” that secretly harvests sensitive user data without consent. Arizona joins Arkansas, Kentucky, and Nebraska in suing Temu over privacy violations. The lawsuit also…

Jason Derulo made controversial remarks in a newly released interview filmed September 16, declaring he learned to “never work with women” from the sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him. The singer’s comments come as aspiring artist Emaza Gibson refiled her harassment claims in New York in September 2025 after the case was dismissed twice in…