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Business
Labor lawsuit against Samsung R&D hub alleges exclusion of workers with ‘dark skin’
Samsung Research America (SRA) in Silicon Valley, an advanced research and development subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, is facing accusati...
Michelle De Pacina
University of Chicago research center to pay $95,000 discrimination settlement to Asian job applicants
NORC at the University of Chicago has agreed to pay $95,000 to 107 Asian adults who applied as COVID-19 contact tracers in the early months ...
Bryan Ke
San Francisco sues 3 Chinatown building owners over unsafe living conditions
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu has filed a lawsuit against the owners of three Chinatown buildings, all single occupancy hotels, ove...
China
Chinese grandma successfully sues daughter, son-in-law for years of care for grandson
The grandma concluded in July that her efforts had not been adequately rewarded and that she deserved more compensation ...
Ryan General
Education
Judge dismisses suit v. Yale Law alleging retaliation on students who refused to testify against Amy Chua
A federal judge dismissed a retaliation lawsuit by two Yale Law School (YLS) students against their dean and other administrators in connect...
Carl Samson
Crime
New York cafe owner accused of sexually assaulting, harassing Asian employees
The owner of the popular Marie Eiffel Market on Shelter Island, New York, is facing a lawsuit filed by eight workers, including six women an...
Law group asks Supreme Court to hear new race-based admissions case at elite high school
The group alleges the school’s new admissions plan was designed to “achieve the same results as overt racial discrimination” ...
Woman sues Tesla after her husband dies trapped in Model 3 after fiery crash
She asserted that the vehicle was “unreasonably dangerous for its designed and intended purposes” ...
Elon Musk says X will pay legal fees of users discriminated by employers for posting on the platform
X owner Elon Musk has offered to pay the legal bills of users who have been allegedly discriminated against by their employers due to their ...
Government
Asian Americans win back basic right to water in California’s Siskiyou County
Asian Americans have won back the basic right to water in California’s Siskiyou County. Humanitarian crisis: On Tuesday, the Siskiyou County...
Japanese sushi chain drops $480,000 suit against 17-year-old over licking prank
The operator of Japanese sushi restaurant chain Sushiro has reportedly dropped its lawsuit against a high school student who contaminated fo...
Utah’s largest Asian grocer ordered to pay $525,000 for violating labor laws
Utah’s largest Asian grocer was ordered to pay $525,000 in back wages, penalties and damages as a result of a U.S. Department of Labor...
Chandler Treon
Bay Area
California Thai restaurant’s dish so spicy it caused ‘chemical burns,’ lawsuit alleges
A woman is suing a Thai restaurant in San Jose, California, over a spicy appetizer that allegedly gave her “permanent bodily injuries.” The ...
Ex-employee sues ‘Pokémon Go’ maker Niantic for creating ‘boys club,’ paying her $10K less
A former employee at Niantic, Inc., the developer of “Pokémon Go,” is suing the San Francisco-based company for its work culture that allege...
Japan
Japan’s Supreme Court rules against government’s restroom restrictions for transgender employee
“All people should have the right to live their lives in a society based on their own sexual identities” ...
Bay area tech company sued for $20 million over ‘culture of prejudice against Asians’
A tech company based in San Jose, California, is facing a $20 million wrongful-termination lawsuit for allegedly firing an Asian employee du...
Chinese man wins lawsuit against company who fired him for failing to run 3 miles in 30 mins
A Chinese man has won his lawsuit against a manufacturing company for firing him over his failure to finish a 5-kilometer (3.1 miles) race i...
Husband of woman killed in Florida parasailing crash after captain cut tether files lawsuit
The husband of a woman killed in a parasailing incident in the Florida Keys last year is suing the people he believes are to blame for her d...
Japanese sushi chain sues teen for $480,000 for licking soy sauce bottle
A restaurant chain in Japan is suing a high school student for 67 million yen (approximately $480,000) for contaminating conveyor belt sushi...
Man gets sued after leaving his blind date and her 23 relatives at restaurant
A man in China ended up in a legal battle after walking out on a blind date who expected him to pay for her and 23 of her relatives. Some u...
SEC lawsuit accuses Binance and its founder of ‘extensive web of deception’
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao of violating securities laws a...
Civil Rights
Japan court rules same-sex marriage ban ‘unconstitutional’
A district court in Nagoya, Japan, has become the second district court in the country to rule that banning same-sex couples from marrying i...
Children of Arby’s restaurant employee who died in freezer sues for $1 million
The children of an employee who was found dead in the freezer of an Arby’s Restaurant in New Iberia, Louisiana, are suing the business’s umb...
Ambulance company sued over paramedic accused of sexually assaulting 82-year-old Asian woman
A lawsuit has been filed in California against medical transport provider American Medical Response West for its alleged oversight that led ...
Elite high school’s admission policy did not discriminate against Asian Americans, Virginia court rules
A Virginia federal court has ruled that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology’s (TJHSST) admission policy aimed at student...
Montana says it is ‘fully prepared’ against suit by TikTok over app ban
Montana has expressed confidence in its legal battle against TikTok after the social video giant challenged the state’s sweeping ban in a la...
Family of Christina Yuna Lee sues NYPD over alleged inaction
The family of Christina Yuna Lee is suing the New York Police Department (NYPD) for taking too long to break into her Chinatown apartment an...
Former exec of TikTok parent ByteDance says Beijing had ‘supreme access’ to US data
A former executive for ByteDance — TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company — has accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of having “supreme ...
Meme’d Chinese actor makes $1.1 million by successfully suing over 500 companies
Ge You, a veteran Chinese actor who became a viral meme in 2016, has earned $1.1 million after successfully suing more than 500 companies fo...
Entertainment
LOONA’s Heejin, Kim Lip, Jinsoul, Choerry get a reset with music project ARTMS
K-pop agency Modhaus has announced a new music project dubbed “ARTMS” with former LOONA members Heejin, Kim Lip, Jinsoul and Choerry. The K...
Daniel Anderson
Florida professor sues his university for firing him after he compared Asian Americans to African Americans
An associate psychology professor at the University of Central Florida (UCF) is launching a lawsuit against his university for firing him la...
4 ex-LOONA members sign with agency founded by group’s former creative director
Former LOONA members Heejin, Kim Lip, Jinsoul and Choerry have signed exclusive contracts with Modhaus, a South Korean entertainment agency ...
Tony Hsieh’s estate reaches settlement with the late Zappos CEO’s former associate
A case filed by Tony Hsieh’s former financial manager and longtime friend, Tony Lee, against Hsieh’s estate in April 2021 has been settled, ...
News
Couple sues Hawaii snorkeling company for $5 million for abandoning them in the ocean
A California couple has filed a $5 million lawsuit against a snorkeling company in Hawaii for allegedly abandoning them a half mile away fro...
Ines Shin
‘A case of all Asians look alike’: Florida man sues police, Walmart for racial profiling, false arrest
A man from Hudson, Florida, has filed a federal suit against a Hernando County deputy, a Walmart loss prevention officer and Walmart itself ...
Loyola University Chicago drops race criteria for ‘diverse’ surgery internship program
Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine has reportedly removed racial requirements from an internship program that appeared t...