A federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit Friday that accused Nevada officials and the state psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas of violating patients’ civil rights by giving them bus tickets and dumping them in other states. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision said it could not consider the merits of the suit because the plaintiff, James Flavy Coy Brown, failed to raise a …
Don’t offer prison inmate John Demos your Hershey Bar, your Kellogg’s corn flakes or your Bazooka bubble gum. And he doesn’t think your Campbell soup Is mmmm-mmmm good. The Washington state inmate filed a lawsuit in Macon’s federal court this week, arguing that those companies and several others gave him bladder and intestine problems. Also named in the lawsuit are …
The New Jersey State Democratic Committee has filed a lawsuit to bar the New Jersey Oath Keepers – which has been described as a militia extremist group – from monitoring polling places on Election Day, arguing it would amount to voter intimidation. The complaint was filed late Thursday night in U.S. District Court against the Oath Keepers. Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage, attended a meeting last …
The Woodhaven Care Center in Monroeville promises families that a large, accommodating staff will see to the grooming and medical needs of their loved ones. But when retired steelworker Reggie Hickman’s wife, Catherine, became a resident there after suffering a stroke, he says she just languished in bed. “She never got the proper care that she she should have had, being …
A former employee of Stamford-based Gerald Metals filed last week an age and gender discrimination lawsuit against the company, in a case that also represents one of the first to invoke the state’s anti-pay secrecy law.
Filed in U.S. District Court in Connecticut, the lawsuit alleges that the company’s treatment of Roxanne Khazarian , 61, reflected a culture of …
Chadbourne & Parke filed a counterclaim Thursday that alleges the lawyer who initially sued the firm in a $100 million pay class action breached her fiduciary duty by revealing confidential financial information and engaging in “a nationwide smear campaign” …
Yasser Awaad Depositions are underway for a potential jury trial next year for Yasser Awaad, M.D., a pediatric neurologist formerly with Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center in Dearborn who is accused in a class action lawsuit of falsely diagnosing epilepsy in hundreds of children in Southeast Michigan in the mid-2000s. Awaad has been compared by the attorneys of the children and their families …
A University of Virginia (UVA) dean triumphed in her lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine Friday, with a jury finding the magazine liable for defaming her in an article about a bogus gang-rape on campus. Nicole Eramo sued the magazine in 2015 over her portrayal in the infamous Sabrina Erdely article “A Rape on Campus,” which recounted allegations by then-UVA student Jackie Coakley that she …
A lawyer, who represents an anonymous family, has filed a federal lawsuit against three Newtown police officers alleging that the police violated the family’s civil rights, and also certain state law, in connection with the arrest of the father of the family on several child sexual abuse charges in May 2013. Attorney Sally A. Roberts of Hartford said November 2 that the police named in the …
A company with 11 skilled nursing homes in Pennsylvania doesn’t have enough staff to provide basic patient care — and faked it when state Department of Health inspectors were around, the state attorney general said in a consumer protection lawsuit filed Friday. One patient, for example, needed medical cream applied daily but records show it was skipped 19 times one month. The same resident …