Twenty-three people were sickened and one person died. Last month we talked with the family of Joe Butler, a 29-year-old, who contracted the severe form of pneumonia. He is now out of the hospital, but has a long road ahead of him.
The Justice Department filed a proposed consent decree today to resolve allegations that Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by using inaccessible classroom and other technologies. Under the consent decree, which is pending court approval, Miami University will make significant improvements to ensure that technologies across all its campuses are …
After opening several Star Wars-themed businesses, a man named Michael Brown has been sued by Lucasfilm for infringing on its intellectual property.
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Lakewood Police Department for its use of a now-retired police dog that has been at the center of four civil-rights lawsuits for inflicting savage bites. U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton, in an order last week sending the case to trial, said allegations contained in a lawsuit filed in 2015 by Kerry Tucker “could determine that …
Dash Boutique is blind to the needs of the visually impaired — at least, that’s the claim made by a lawsuit filed against the boutique chain founded by the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” family. In the suit filed last week in federal court in Florida, Andres Gomez claims that the website for the chain, which offers merchandise for sale, discriminates against the visually impaired. “This case …
A lawsuit has been filed against the City of Shreveport related to the water rate billing error that cost the city about $1 million of ratepayer generated revenue over the past year. Sand Beach Properties LLC filed a lawsuit …
Nakeyja Cade bathes her three children in bottled water after her 1-year-old daughter Zariyah Cade (center left) had a blood test scoring high in lead content in Flint, Mich. on March 1, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson / The Washington Post) Public officials failed children in Flint, Mich., by allowing the city’s supply of drinking water to remain contaminated with lead, a known neurotoxin, for …
A settlement has been reached between a group of animation workers and DreamWorks Animation in a class action lawsuit alleging that DreamWorks and other companies violated antitrust laws by conspiring to set animation wages via nonpoaching agreements. According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose on Monday, the settlement provides for a cash payment of $50 million to a …
Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Tyson Foods, Inc. (“Tyson” or the “Company”) (NYSE: TSN ) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and docketed under 16-cv-08108, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons or entities who …
A nonunion electrical contractor who traded punches with labor leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty in January filed a federal lawsuit Monday against him and his local, accusing them of racketeering. Joshua Keesee, who says Dougherty broke his nose in the fight, contends that he has become a pariah in his trade since the clash, with developers refusing to hire him to avoid antagonizing Dougherty. …