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An Auglaize County Probate judge approved the settlement for the wrongful death and survival claims against Todd Klosterman’s Klosterman Vested Interests LLC. In the settlement, $682,500 was awarded to the estate of Christopher Brown. The settlement is final — but OSHA fines remain contested, and the Auglaize County prosecutor’s office is still reviewing whether to…
In October 2025, DocketWise — a cloud-based immigration case management platform for law firms — discovered that unauthorized actors had accessed credentials for one of its third-party partner repositories. The breach involved the cloning of repositories used in a data migration pipeline, exposing unstructured data belonging to DocketWise’s law firm clients and their customers. Notifications…
A federal judge on Friday halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves higher education institutions aren’t considering race in admissions. The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV in Boston granting the preliminary injunction follows a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general. The…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 4, 2026, titled “Urgent National Action to Save College Sports.” The order directs the NCAA to create rules mandating that college athletes can play for no more than a five-year period and limits how often they can transfer between schools. Schools that do not comply risk…
YouTube agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a four-year-old lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump after the platform suspended his account following the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack. The settlement, filed in the U.S. District Court in Northern California, ends a legal battle between the company and Trump. Most of the money does not…
FedEx agreed to pay $9,500,000 to settle a class action lawsuit brought by hourly workers at eight of its Connecticut facilities who were not paid for the time they spent going through mandatory security screenings and walking to and from time clocks before and after their shifts. A federal judge in Connecticut gave the deal…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk on January 14, 2025, accusing the world’s richest person of violating federal securities law by waiting 11 days too long to disclose he had quietly accumulated more than 5% of Twitter’s stock in 2022. The SEC says that delay let Musk buy an additional $500 million…
The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission (FCSC) — the small but consequential quasi-judicial agency within the U.S. Department of Justice — requests $2,512,000, 11 permanent positions, and 8 full-time equivalents for Fiscal Year 2027. That represents an $8,000 increase over the FY 2026 enacted level of $2,504,000, driven entirely by base technical adjustments. No new programs…
Blake Lively sued Justin Baldoni in December 2024 over alleged sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us and a coordinated online smear campaign she says his team launched against her in retaliation. On April 2, 2026, a federal judge dismissed 10 of her 13 claims — including sexual harassment — on legal…