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Joel Silver Sued for Wrongful Death in Assistant’s Drowning

- August 28, 2017

In the aftermath of a tragic accident that occurred back in 2015, Hollywood producer Joel Silver is being sued. In 2015, his former assistant, Carmel Musgrove, drowned “during a star-studded trip to Bora Bora for Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s honeymoon,” and now her family is suing Silver. The family filed the lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court, alleging that “Silver, his company Silver Pictures, and Silver’s personal chef Martin Herold are responsible for her wrongful death.”

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Riverside Gun Range Cancels Popular Ladies Night Event Over Lawsuit

- August 27, 2017

Earlier this month, Shereen Gamboa, like many women in the U.S., was looking forward to a fun night out with her friends. She and her friends had made plans to visit Riverside Magnum Gun Range for the regular Thursday night ladies night event that had become very popular at the gun range, particularly because it was a space where women could learn “how to properly handle a gun in a comfortable setting.” To attract women to the event, the gun range even waived the “$12 range fee for women.” Unfortunately for Gamboa and other women who enjoyed the event, it’s been cancelled after a man claimed the event was discriminatory.

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Appeals Court Tosses Out Subway Footlong Sandwich Case

- August 27, 2017

After a teenager from Australia visited a local subway shop back in 2013, they measured their “footlong” sub because the size of it looked a bit suspicious. Upon measuring the sandwich, they discovered it was only 11 inches, and after posting an image of their sandwich on Facebook to inform family and friends of the false advertising, they proceeded to file a lawsuit against the sandwich shop. As many stories go in the Facebook era, the post went viral and prompted many others to file lawsuits against Subway until a “single class-action complaint” was filed.

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Settlement Reached Between Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, and MailOnline Over Photo Controversy

- August 26, 2017

A lawsuit between Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis and MailOnline, a British website, has been settled for an undisclosed amount. The lawsuit itself stemmed from “the publication of photos of their children” without their consent, and once the couple learned about the photos, they “took the website’s publisher, Associated Newspapers, to London’s High Court in July 2015 over two articles featuring their daughter, who was 1 at the time.”

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Family of Daniel McGuire Agrees to $9.5M Settlement in Wrongful Death Case

- August 24, 2017

A $9.5 million settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit originally filed by Gail-Jean and Doug McGuire, the parents of Daniel McGuire. The lawsuit itself was filed against Saini Trucking and Saini Brothers Trucking after McGuire was killed in a car accident when a “big-rig truck slammed into his car in traffic July 10, 2014, on Highway 17 near Bear Creek Road.”

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Settlement Reached in “Free Cruise” Robocall Lawsuit

- August 17, 2017

Between July 2009 and March 2014, many households across the country received calls from an unfamiliar number that turned out to be a pre-recorded message informing the homeowner that they qualified for a free cruise. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, it was, and given the fact that many people received multiple calls from the unfamiliar number, a class-action lawsuit was filed to bring an end to the robocalls. Fortunately for members of the lawsuit, a settlement was announced earlier this week. But who was responsible for the phone calls? Who filed the lawsuit?

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