Lawsuits

Australia is suing U.S. conglomerate 3M for more than 2 billion Australian dollars ($1.4 billion) over so-called “forever chemical” contamination from firefighting foam at defense bases — the government’s largest-ever claim for compensation, relating to contamination with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, at 28 bases. The Commonwealth filed the case in the Federal…

Alliance Cloud Services LLC is facing a federal class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, alleging that the company’s AI and high-performance computing data center at 415 E. Prairie Ronde St. in Dowagiac generates constant, excessive noise 24 hours a day, seven days a week — destroying…

Brandon Ingram served his country in the U.S. Navy, came home to St. Louis, and threw himself into a job at Frito-Lay he thought would secure his family’s future. Then a routine button press on October 2, 2016, changed everything. What followed — denied medical care, disputed workers’ compensation, surveillance of his wife and children,…