Civil Lawsuits

We’re back in Fairfax County, Virginia for more of our gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard Defamation Trial. More

April 28, 2022

“Just because I see a female with pink cheeks and pink eyes doesn't mean something happened,” he said in a recorded deposition played for jurors Wednesday. More

April 27, 2022

A forensic psychologist testified Tuesday that actor Amber Heard suffers from borderline personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder. More

April 26, 2022

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Actor Johnny Depp concluded a grueling four days on the witness stand Monday, telling jurors in a calm voice that he filed his libel lawsuit against his ex-wife because it was his best chance to reclaim his reputation, just hours after they heard audio clips of […] More

April 25, 2022

“The next move, if I don't walk away ... it's going to be a bloodbath, like it was on the island,” Depp says on the recording. More

April 25, 2022

The NFL is telling a judge there are multiple reasons why a lawsuit brought against it by three Black coaches who allege racist hiring practices should fail. The league said it will either ask that the claims of coach Brian Flores and two other coaches be forced into arbitration or be dismissed without a trial because they lack legal merit. More

April 21, 2022

More than two years after the Boy Scouts of America sought bankruptcy protection to stave off a flood of lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by Scout leaders and volunteers, a Delaware judge is weighing whether to confirm the BSA's reorganization plan. More

April 21, 2022

Attorneys for actor Amber Heard resumed their cross-examination of her ex-husband Johnny Depp in a Virginia courtroom on Thursday, taking aim at his alcohol and drug use as well as texts he sent to a friend about wanting to kill and defile his then-wife. More

April 21, 2022

Chanley Painter is in the courtroom daily and will join host Vinnie Politan with in person details about the testimony of Johnny Depp. More

April 21, 2022

Former star of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" NeNe Leakes sued the companies behind the show on Wednesday, alleging that they fostered and tolerated a hostile and racist work environment. More

April 20, 2022

By MATTHEW BARAKAT and BEN FINLEY Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Actor Johnny Depp scoffed at the notion during court testimony Wednesday that his constant quarrels with ex-wife Amber Heard would ever prompt him to hit her, and instead portrayed Heard as an abusive partner who threw bottles at him, faked domestic violence and […] More

April 20, 2022

A university in Ohio will pay a professor $500,000 years after disciplining him for using the wrong pronouns when addressing a student. Shawnee State University punished Nicholas Meriwether in 2018 for calling addressing a female transgender student as “sir.” More

April 19, 2022

Actor Johnny Depp took the stand Tuesday in his libel lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, whom he says falsely accused him of domestic abuse. More

April 19, 2022

A group of Tesla shareholders suing CEO Elon Musk over some 2018 tweets about taking the company private is asking a federal judge to order Musk to stop commenting on the case. More

April 18, 2022

Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard jurors are expected to see famous witnesses such as Elon Musk, James Franco, Ellen Barkin and Paul Bettany. More

April 15, 2022

A federal lawsuit challenging Idaho's ban on transgender athletes in women's sports will likely move forward after both sides agreed that the woman who sued is again enrolled at Boise State University and competing in school athletics. More

April 14, 2022

The family of Gabby Petito will get a jury trial in their suit against the parents of Brian Laundrie. More

April 14, 2022

A former personal assistant to Amber Heard said she never saw the actress suffer any physical abuse at the hands of then-husband Johnny Depp — but she said Heard once spit in her face when she asked for a higher salary. Heard descended into screaming fits of blind rage, sent incoherent text messages at 4 a.m. and was often drunk and high on illegal drugs, Kate James testified in a video deposition that was played in court Thursday during the trial for Depp's libel suit against Heard. More

April 14, 2022

Frontier Airlines has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of flight attendants who claimed the carrier discriminated against them during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. More

April 13, 2022

A longtime friend and next-door neighbor of Johnny Depp testified Wednesday that Depp's ex-wife, Amber Heard, had told him the movie star threw a phone at her and hit her inside the couple's Los Angeles penthouse. More

April 13, 2022

A trial over libel allegations by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, will likely turn into a six-week, mudslinging soap opera, Heard's lawyers warned a Virginia jury Tuesday. More

April 12, 2022

A panel of 7 jurors and 4 alternates was selected to hear the $50 million dollar defamation case that actor Johnny Depp is bringing against his ex-wife Amber Heard, who is countersuing with her own defamation claim seeking $100 million in damages. More

April 11, 2022

A jury was selected Monday to hear a long-anticipated libel lawsuit Johnny Depp filed against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, whom he accuses of falsely portraying him as a domestic abuser. More

April 11, 2022

Johnny Depp is suing Amber Heard for defamation. He claims his ex-wife damaged his reputation when she wrote about domestic abuse in a Washington Post op-ed. More

April 8, 2022

The family of Brian Laundrie filed a motion to dismiss a pending lawsuit filed by the family of his former fiancé, Gabby Petito. More

March 31, 2022

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Scripps News West Palm)— The family of a 79-year-old woman who fell to her death while attempting to cross a Florida drawbridge is suing the bridge tender and the company that manages the bridge.   According to a lawsuit filed Monday in Palm Beach County court, the family of Carol Wright […] More

March 28, 2022

Depp sued Heard for libel in Virginia after The Washington Post published her opinion piece. More

March 25, 2022

Former Google employee sued tech giant for racial discrimination saying it engages in "pattern and practice" of unfair treatment for Black workers. More

March 21, 2022

About five weeks before the shooting, an FBI tip line received a call saying Nikolas Cruz had bought guns and planned to "slip into a school and start shooting the place up.” More

March 17, 2022

Parents of Gabby Petito claim in a new Florida lawsuit that Brian Laundrie told his parents he had killed her before he returned home alone from their ill-fated western trip in a converted van. More

March 11, 2022