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New York City and McGraw Media — the production company run by Jordan McGraw, son of TV personality Dr. Phil McGraw — settled a lawsuit on March 27, 2026 over a reality show filmed inside the New York Police Department. The show, titled Behind the Badge, had been stalled in court since January after the…
A four-and-a-half-year privacy lawsuit against Google ended on March 26, 2026 — not with a payout to users, but with a federal judge approving a settlement that gives Google account holders a new opt-in privacy control. The bigger story: the same judge awarded plaintiff attorneys just $21.9 million of the $128 million in fees they…
Every October, Palestinian farmers in the West Bank start their olive harvest — a season that for centuries marked a time of family, income, and connection to the land. Today it marks something else too. October 2025 recorded the highest monthly number of Israeli settler attacks since OCHA began documenting such incidents in 2006, with…
Hertz ran two major stock buyback programs in 2021 and 2022. A stockholder sued, arguing those buybacks quietly turned a private equity fund called CK Amarillo into Hertz’s majority owner — without paying ordinary shareholders anything for that transfer of control. The case settled. No cash changes hands, but CK Amarillo now has a legal…
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has agreed to pay £4.6 million to settle a clinical negligence claim on behalf of a boy who suffered a severe hypoglycaemic brain injury shortly after birth at Bradford Royal Infirmary. The settlement was approved by HHJ Mark Gargan, sitting as a Judge of the High Court, on Monday,…
Investors in bankrupt electric vehicle company Arrival SA received final approval on March 25, 2026 for their nearly $13.3 million settlement — ending a lawsuit that accused the once-hyped British EV startup of selling investors a fictitious vision of AI-powered microfactories and double-digit profit margins before its business collapsed, its stock cratered, and the company…
In July 2019, the Federal Trade Commission imposed a $5 billion civil penalty on Facebook — the largest privacy penalty ever levied against any company in the world at the time. Facebook agreed to pay the record-breaking sum and submit to sweeping new restrictions and a modified corporate structure to settle FTC charges that it…
The 2017 Equifax data breach exposed the personal information of approximately 147 million Americans — and the resulting $700 million settlement with the FTC, CFPB, and 50 state attorneys general remains one of the largest consumer data breach settlements in U.S. history. All claim filing deadlines have now passed — the extended claims period ended…
Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) warned ABC News and CBS News on Friday that their multi-million dollar settlements with President Donald Trump will face congressional investigation if Democrats retake control of Congress in the 2026 midterms. Schiff made the remarks on Friday’s episode of “The Town” podcast, telling media companies they need to understand there will…