A class action lawsuit filed in California last week accuses Facebook of violating key civil rights laws after it was discovered that the social media company has a feature that allows advertisers to target users by race and ethnicity. Facebook has a self-service advertising page, which offers many different marketing functions. One of the features allows for advertisers to “EXCLUDE people” and …
In a class action lawsuit with devastating claims, a local doctor is accused of misdiagnosing hundreds of children. In the lawsuit, close to 250 families claim doctor Yasser Awaad, a pediatric neurologist, misdiagnosed hundreds of children, saying they had epilepsy. You can watch Priya Mann’s full story in the video posted above.
Facebook is now sued for violating the Fair Housing Act and Article VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This is caused by the tech company’s racial discrimination in its ad-targeting option tool. (Esther Vargas / Flickr)
Facebook has been sued in violation of the Fair Housing Act and the Article VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
It’s a growing trend in the United States, and one that is sickening and illegal: Revenge porn. Our story begins with a young woman, an aspiring model who posed for nude photos thinking they would remain relatively obscured and within her control. An ex-boyfriend is accused of posing as the woman to obtain photos from the photographer who took them.
Less than two months after children came down with serious infections after dental procedures at Children’s Dental Group’s Anaheim clinic, a new lawsuit accuses the dental clinic of fraud and medical malpractice. In the past two months, 57 children have been treated for serious infections and abscesses in their mouths and necks. The children developed infections after …
At least 40 people have now signed onto a class action lawsuit surrounding lead-tainted water in Northeast Fresno. Fresno Attorney Stuart Chandler has also agreed to join the case. The lawsuit claims that the city’s negligence corroded interior plumbing inside of homes and created health concerns.
The summarized version of the story is that per Union’s contract, she’s only supposed to shoot 13 episodes per season of the series so she can have time to do films. But when the network called for 10-episode seasons to …
In one of the most shocking election surprises, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was accused by a woman of raping her when she was only 13 years old. The woman abruptly dropped her lawsuit last week, leading to plenty of speculation about what happened. Some even suggested Trump may have paid her off to keep quiet.
A federal judge in Ohio ruled Friday that a lawsuit filed against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for allegedly engaging in “viewpoint discrimination” while processing applications for tax exempt status by ten conservative groups has “a likelihood of success on the merits”. U.S. …
The Washington Legal Foundation is among those groups calling on a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court’s decision that, they argue, would undermine class-wide settlements by permitting plaintiff states to file copycat lawsuits despite benefiting from a settlement. The D.C.-based public interest law firm, which regularly advocates against excessive …