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News Oct 17, 2016

Cook County Lawsuit Alleges Car Dealer Failed to Inform Now-Deceased Man Car Was Leaking Carbon Monoxide

A Cook County lawsuit alleges a Countryside car dealership failed to inform a customer, who later died in his car, that his vehicle was leaking carbon monoxide when he brought it in for repairs. An administrator of the deceased man’s estate filed a wrongful death claim against Fishacar Ltd. , which operates as Autobarn Volkswagen of Countryside, the Cook County Recorder reported Friday. The …

Lawsuits Oct 17, 2016

ACLU Files Lawsuit Over Traffic Stop With 2 Black Men

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the City of Colorado Springs and two of its police officers over a traffic stop involving two black men. The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of brothers Ryan and Benjamin Brown, claiming that they were targeted by police because they are young African-American men. (credit: ACLU) A video taken by Ryan …

Legal News Oct 15, 2016

Judge Says He’ll Rule Next Month on Lawsuit Against Hastert

A Kendall County judge says he will issue a written decision in 45 days on whether a lawsuit filed against former U.S. House speaker Dennis Hastert by a sexual abuse victim should be dismissed. Characterizing the lawsuit as a form of extortion, attorneys for Hastert asked Judge Robert Pilmer to dismiss a lawsuit brought in April by the man who contends Hastert owes him …

News Oct 15, 2016

ACLU of Michigan to Announce New Lawsuit Tied to the Water Emergency

The ACLU of Michigan says it will announce a new class action lawsuit on Tuesday, Oct. 18. It’s being filed on behalf of Flint families impacted by the city’s lead-tainted water. The ACLU released this statement: “All children can learn-but the ongoing water crisis in Flint creates urgent problems for Flint students, parents and teachers,” said Kary Moss, executive …

News Oct 15, 2016

MediaTakeOut Founder Responds to Kim Kardashian’s Libel Lawsuit

Lots of people were snarking on Kim Kardashian after the celebrity was bound, gagged, and robbed at gunpoint in Paris , but gossip site MediaTakeOut went one step further by implying Kardashian faked the attack. The site posted three separate stories with slightly different spins on the theory, all of which have been taken off the site. Kardashian filed a …

News Oct 15, 2016

Goldman Sachs Wins $1bn Lawsuit With the Libyan Investment Authority

Goldman Sachs on Friday won a lawsuit filed against it by the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), a government-managed sovereign wealth fund. The Libyan fund had sued the American investment bank for $1.2bn (£984m) over losses that it had incurred from derivatives purchased in 2008. The LIA had alleged that Goldman Sachs had wooed the fund’s officials with prostitutes, fine-dining in London’s …

Legal News Oct 15, 2016

Texas AG Fires Off Brief in Waller Courthouse Gun Carry Lawsuit

The Texas Attorney General has fired off a brief in the litigation over the right to bear arms in the Waller County Courthouse complex. AG Ken Paxton urges that “Both the law and sound public policy against the chilling of protected speech demand dismissal of Waller County’s claim. He also urges that the Waller County court is without jurisdiction to determine the issue.

Lawsuits Oct 14, 2016

Utah Jehovah’s Witnesses Church Forced Woman to Listen to Audio of Her Rape, Lawsuit Says

No representative of the Roy church, 1950 W. 4400 South, responded to a voicemail from The Salt Lake Tribune requesting comment Thursday. The Tribune generally does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault. Because the man accused of assaulting the woman in this case has not been charged with a crime, The Tribune is not identifying him.

Lawsuits Oct 14, 2016

Families File Lawsuit for ‘Mismanaged’ Labor and Delivery

Tatyana Phillips never imagined she would have to talk about her baby boy’s death. “I have nightmares regularly so I don’t get any sleep, sometimes I stay awake for days at a time,” said the young woman through tears. On Friday, Phillips sat in the office of her attorney, and recounted that how last fall, her baby boy lived for just minutes after being born.

News Oct 14, 2016

As One Lawsuit Sinks, Disney IT Workers Prepare a New Fight

The IT employees laid off by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, who alleged a “conspiracy to displace U.S. workers” in a lawsuit, lost a key ruling Thursday and face dismissal of the complaint. But this is a two-part legal fight, and a new lawsuit alleging national origin discrimination may be filed in the next month. The first lawsuit followed a decision by Disney to outsource some of its IT …