Henderson was hired in 2014 as the city’s administrator, the highest ranking unelected post in the city. Three days after Henderson reported the alleged violation to the city’s chief legal counsel, she was fired. The suit claims that Mayor Weaver told Henderson that the state no longer had the budget to fund her position; Henderson informed her the city …
ESPN and Verizon have reached a settlement over Verizon’s plan to let customers choose channels for their bundles. ESPN and Verizon have reached a settlement, a little more than a year after the sports media giant filed a lawsuit over a plan that lets customers pick the channels they receive. Terms of the settlement, which was announced by both sides on Tuesday, were not disclosed. …
A student is suing Birmingham City Schools and the Board of Education — for failing to protect her from an alleged predator, her history teacher at Huffman High School The lawsuit claims that teacher was asking female students for sex – in exchange for better grades. Attorney Julian Hendrix says he knows of at least five students who were approached in this reported …
Uber drivers may be settling for about 12% of the total amount they could have received at trial. Uber Technologies Inc. reached a $100 million settlement agreement in April for two class-action lawsuits brought by drivers who argued that they should be employees and were owed reimbursement. But, according to documents released this week, if drivers in both cases had won on trials on a class- …
An area resident and American Atheists have filed a lawsuit alleging that Bradley County Sheriff Eric Watson is violating the First Amendment by proselytizing and censoring on the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page. Officials filed the suit Monday in federal District Court in Eastern Tennessee in an effort to “stop the sheriff’s policy of censoring comments that are negative or at …
A group of residents has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company believed by the state to be responsible for contaminating private wells. Residents are claiming negligence against Saint-Gobain and seek more than $5 million in damages. They also want the company to pay to connect affected homes to municipal water, clean up contamination and implement long-term medical …
Bobby Brown is the newest plaintiff added to the ongoing civil wrongful death lawsuit against Bobbi Kristina‘s boyfriend Nick Gordon. E! Online reports that the veteran R&B singer joined the $10 million legal action that alleges her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, died “due to a violent altercation with Defendant (Gordon) after which he placed her in a bathtub, unconscious, after he injected her with …
A former administrator at the Indiana University School of Medicine says he was pressured to resign after complaining about a female administrator he claims sexually harassed him. Now Dr. Mark Rigby says he wants his job back—with back pay. Rigby, a pediatrician, filed a lawsuit this week against the medical school and IUPUI, where he worked as academic chief of pediatric care before resigning …
Truro landowner Brenda Connors recently won a lawsuit in Barnstable Superior Court that will annul a town zoning board of appeals decision from 2014 granting a comprehensive permit to Habitat For Humanity to create six lots at 181 Route 6. Three of those lots would be used to build a total of three affordable homes, two would remain undeveloped and a driveway would be constructed on the …
The developers of a Jersey City residential building that was forced in 2012 to hand over seven condos to the city for use as affordable housing is suing the city in federal court, alleging city officials now want to sell the condos for profit. Joseph and Neil Sorrentino are seeking $10 million from the city, saying it “fraudulently, willfully and wrongfully misrepresented” in various trials …