October 16, 2024
A lesbian nurse has hit a Georgia hospital and healthcare system with a proposed class action, alleging that the medical plan they offer employees discriminates against homosexual women by charging them more upfront to receive fertility care than women in heterosexual relationships.
October 04, 2024
A community program analyst in Atlanta's Office of Film, Entertainment & Nightlife hit the city with a Fair Labor Standards Act complaint alleging she's owed more than $100,000 for unpaid overtime work.
October 04, 2024
The Kraft Heinz Co. has been slapped with a complaint in Georgia federal court accusing it of downloading hoards of information from an Atlanta-based company's database of international distributors and passing it off as its own to generate as much as $25 million in revenue, in breach of the company's licensing agreement.
October 01, 2024
As a chlorine plant about 20 miles outside of Atlanta continues to belch chemical fumes into the skies in the aftermath of an industrial fire, the company that owns the facility was hit with proposed class actions Monday from residents who say the disaster is already causing dangerous health problems.
September 30, 2024
A former dancer hit Atlanta's famous adult entertainment club Magic City with a proposed collective action claiming it mischaracterized her and others as independent contractors and willfully failed to comply with federal wage laws.
September 25, 2024
The Georgia State Conference of the NAACP and the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda slammed Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger with a complaint, seeking an injunction of certain provisions of a new election law sanctioning voter removals based on alleged address changes.
September 24, 2024
A Black former employee of Combustion and Controls LLC sued the boiler company in Georgia federal court Tuesday, claiming he was treated worse than white co-workers, racially insulted, threatened with violence and ultimately fired after reporting the hostility.
September 20, 2024
A man sued the government and several unnamed parties in Georgia federal court Thursday, alleging that he fractured his thoracic vertebrae, spent 52 days in the hospital and had to undergo surgery after an airport screening incident at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
September 06, 2024
A conservation group sued Atlanta in Georgia federal court Friday, claiming the city failed to properly maintain its largest wastewater treatment plant, sending excessive pollution, including harmful bacteria, into the Chattahoochee River — a charge the city says it has corrected.
September 03, 2024
A former vice president and chief human resources officer for The Elevance Health Companies Inc. claims it terminated his employment to hire a substantially younger person and tried to call it a retirement, according to an age discrimination suit filed in a Georgia federal court Tuesday.