Aug 1, 2016

Navajo Nation Announces Lawsuit Against EPA for ‘unprecedented’ Gold King Mine ‘disaster’

The Navajo Nation announced Monday plans to file a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over damage stemming from last year’s Gold King Mine spill, calling it an “unprecedented environmental disaster.” The New Mexico-based nation is scheduled to hold a press conference Tuesday on its reservation near the San Juan River, which was contaminated after an EPA-led crew accidentally …


Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against United Airlines for Violating Employment Rights of U.S. Air Force Reservist

The Justice Department filed a complaint today alleging that United Airlines Inc. violated the employment rights of U.S. Air Force Reservist Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Fandrei under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). According to the complaint, United violated USERRA by denying Fandrei employment benefits during his military leave that it grants to other …


No Immediate Ruling in School Vaccination Case

A judge declined to immediately decide whether to suspend California’s nationally watched school vaccination law after a hearing Friday in downtown San Diego. The courtroom session took place as the law, one of the toughest of its kind in the United States, is being rolled out for the first time with resumption of K-12 classes from Chula Vista to Los Angeles to San Francisco. U.S. District …


US Aid to Israel Illegal: Lawsuit

American aid to Israel is illegal under a decades-old law that prohibits aid to nuclear powers that have not signed the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, DC. The lawsuit, filed this week by Grant Smith, the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, comes as the US and Israel have closed many of …


County Attorney Asks Judge to Dismiss Rape Victim Lawsuit

Lawyers for Ron Hickman of Harris County filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by a rape victim whom prosecutors got a judge to put in jail after the victim had a mental breakdown while testifying against her accused rapist. Channel 2 exposed the situation of “Jenny” and another rape victim who were held in jail so prosecutors could make sure they testified against …



Thomas Gibson Considering Lawsuit Over ‘Criminal Minds’ Dismissal

Go figure, after eleven seasons of hard work on a television show, all it takes is one on-set altercation and kicking a show’s writer to find yourself out of the job. At least that’s what happened to Thomas Gibson who was fired from Criminal Minds. Initially a suspension, on Friday it was made official that Criminal Minds had lost FBI special agent Aaron Hotchner thanks to the altercation.


Sale of Charleston’s SPARC Triggers Lawsuit, Pitting Executives Against Firm’s Founder

When the technology firm SPARC sold the core of its business last fall, its executives were in for a big payday. Their incentive packages, intended to give them a stake in the company’s success, awarded them a slice of the eight-figure deal, which was among the highest-profile and priciest buyouts in Charleston’s technology industry in recent years. The question is, how much should they have made?



Judge Doesn’t Rule in Texas’ Lawsuit Over Transgender Protections

Despite the state’s request for an expedited ruling, a federal judge took no action Friday on a request to block the Obama administration’s guidelines to accommodate transgender students. U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor did not issue a ruling from the bench after an almost two-hour-long hearing during which state attorneys — as part of a Texas-led, 13-state effort to block …