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Henrietta Lacks thegrio.com
July 30, 2021
The family of Henrietta Lacks has hired attorney Ben Crump to pursue justice over the longtime unauthorized use of her…
Byron Allen thegrio.com
February 3, 2021
Byron Allen, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios, settled and withdrew his $10B suit against Charter Communications.
December 12, 2020
Judge Brett Ludwig dismissed Trump’s federal lawsuit asking the court to order the Legislature to name Trump the winner over…
November 28, 2020
President Donald Trump's case to block President-elect Joe Biden from winning Pennsylvania was dismissed in the federal appeals court.
November 28, 2020
Across the country, firefighters are confronting incidents of racism, discrimination as part of a growing movement against racial injustice.
Trump election voters lawsuits thegrio.com
November 16, 2020
Lawsuits challenging Biden's win in four states have been dropped including a case in Arizona that sought a hand by…
September 8, 2020
The Justice Department filed court papers aiming to shift the case into federal court and to substitute the U.S. for…
Masai Ujiri Raptors video thegrio.com
August 19, 2020
Newly released video footage shows a security officer initiating violent contact with Raptors president Masai Ujiri after the team won…
CeBIT Technology Trade Fair 2018
July 24, 2020
Facebook annouces a $650M settlement in a class-action suit brought by Illinois plantiffs for misuse of its facial recognition technology.
June 11, 2020
Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Networks and Comcast announced on Thursday a content carriage arrangement, ending a years-long $20 billion legal…
June 2, 2020
Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr. was killed by police in 2011 and now his son, Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr. has another chance at…
May 13, 2020
Facebook will pay a $52 million dollar settlement for employees who have been traumatized by the work they've done keeping…
May 5, 2020
California sued Uber and Lyft on Tuesday, alleging they misclassified their drivers as independent contractors under the state's new labor…
Byron Allen
March 23, 2020
[griojw id=”NE52FIsf” playerid=””] The U.S. Supreme Court tossed out Byron Allen‘s $20 billion racial bias lawsuit against Comcast on Monday,
March 18, 2020
Ava DuVernay and Netflix are being sued by ex-prosecutor Linda Fairstein, over the way she was portrayed in ‘When They…
Korryn Gaines theGrio.com
February 19, 2019
Three years after the Korryn Gaines case wrapped up, her family had won nearly $38 million in damages, but the…
November 21, 2018
Venus Williams reached a settlement in the wrongful death case where was found in fault for causing a car crash…
August 23, 2018
A music subscriber filed suit against Kanye West, who has already seen his share of controversy this summer, and now…
September 22, 2017
The unidentified man accusing Usher of exposing him to herpes claimed that they had sex at a spa in Koreatown, according to…
September 21, 2017
The "Jane Doe" who filed suit against Usher for $20 million alleging that he exposed her to herpes without disclosing…