Author: Errica Jensen

Flo Rida was reportedly observed bobbing his head to his own music playing during the trial while seated at the plaintiff’s table in a Broward County courthouse in January 2023. It was a hit on the internet. The videos went viral right away, showing a rapper engaged in a legal battle with a billion-dollar energy drink company, seemingly unfazed and relishing the occasion as if it were a listening party instead of a high-stakes legal battle. The jury awarded him $82.6 million as he left the courtroom. Looking back, the energy was right. Anyone who has ever signed a contract…

A cybersecurity company being caught in violation of the law due to simple negligence with a phone list has an almost cinematic quality. A $9.95 million class action settlement over alleged illegal robocalls centers on Norton and LifeLock, two companies that built their entire public image on shielding consumers from precisely the kind of intrusion and unauthorized access they are now accused of committing. Hundreds of thousands of Americans who picked up their phones between 2021 and 2025 and heard a prerecorded voice inquiring about a LifeLock or Norton account they never had are currently receiving compensation in the Michelle…

Imagine a third-grader in a California public school using a Chromebook to navigate a reading diagnostic. It’s quiet in the room. The questions automatically repeat themselves. When the child is done, the computer records the outcome. The child is unaware that data is moving behind that interaction, as are their parents. Names, IP addresses, grade levels, and answers to academic questions are purportedly sent in real time to servers and outside vendors that the family has never heard of or approved. In short, that is the accusation at the heart of M.C. v. Curriculum Associates, the federal class action lawsuit…

Seeing a family’s private crisis resolved through a court filing is especially unsettling. It makes no difference how well-known the participants are. Words like “vacate” and “possession” where you might anticipate something more human are used in the clinical, flat, and procedural language of the documents. Even though their disagreements never reached a courtroom, the story felt less like celebrity rumors when those court documents emerged in April 2026, showing that Kyle Richards had sued her sister Kim to evict her from an Encino condo. According to records that TMZ was able to obtain, Kyle filed the lawsuit in January…

Walk into any Dollar General on a Tuesday afternoon — the kind of store anchored in a strip mall between a laundromat and a cell phone repair shop, with fluorescent lighting and narrow aisles stacked high with cleaning supplies, canned goods, and seasonal decorations — and the whole premise of the place is the price. That’s the situation. You’re not there to create atmosphere. You’re there because the tag on the shelf says $7.00, and $7.00 is what you can afford this week. Because of this, the class action lawsuit at the heart of the Dollar General settlement deadline is…

Imagine the spring of 2020. Most cruise terminals are either empty or almost empty. Updates about a virus spreading more quickly than anyone had acknowledged in public were cycling through the news. In the midst of that chaos, Norwegian Cruise Line sales representatives were on the phone reassuring potential customers that the virus couldn’t survive in tropical temperatures, according to a multistate investigation that has now resulted in a legal settlement. Plan the trip. Avoid canceling. Everything will be alright. It wasn’t good. Six years later, NCL Bahamas, Ltd. has reached a settlement with a coalition of twelve state attorneys…

The disconnect strikes you almost instantly if you’re standing on any residential street in Forest Hills Gardens on a summer Saturday night. On one side is a peaceful, verdant community of Tudor-style houses that appear to have been transported by air from an English village to the heart of Queens. On the other hand, thousands of concertgoers are passing by, traveling through private streets in the direction of a stadium that has played host to artists such as Bob Dylan and the Beatles, as well as more recent acts that attract younger, boisterous, and less historically aware audiences. A $150,000…

On any given morning in Miami Beach, stroll along Collins Avenue past the palm trees and the salty air to see the Fontainebleau as it always has been: massive, curved, and distinctly itself. In 1954, it opened. Here, Frank Sinatra gave a performance. At least in movies, James Bond slept here. It still attracts people who are prepared to spend a lot of money for a night with a view of the ocean because of its weight and reputation, which has been established over many years. The fact that some of the actual owners of this fabled property are now…

It’s difficult to ignore the seriousness of the situation when you’re standing outside the White House on a Thursday morning in early April, with cranes towering over the empty space where the East Wing once stood. This is more than a construction dispute. It concerns who actually owns the most symbolically significant piece of land in the US and whether a president can just decide to demolish a portion of it on an October morning. Even by Washington standards, the White House ballroom construction lawsuit has advanced quickly. About a week after the Trump administration completed demolishing the East Wing,…

Six ICE vehicles blocked traffic on Michigan Avenue in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at nine in the morning on April 10, 2026, in front of the Art of Africa Hair Braiding storefront and the Encuentro Latino Restaurant. There was a man being held. There was Beth Bashert, the mayor of Ypsilanti from 2018 to 2020. She saw an ICE car and followed it with others, arriving in time to see the stop take place. They blew whistles. They gave a honk. They yelled. It took fifteen minutes instead of the usual five. The man’s car was left unlocked on the street with…