The production companies involved with Tom Cruise‘s “American Made,” formerly known as “Mena,” is getting hit by a wrongful death lawsuit, TheWrap has learned. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the family of Carlos Berl, the pilot who died when a plane carrying him and two others crashed during production in Colombia in September 2015. The complaint alleges that the production companies …
A liberal group that has filed suit to change the way Alabama judges are elected isn’t likely to get very far, according to a constitutional law expert in the state. The lawsuit – filed by the NAACP Alabama chapter and four black voters – alleges the state of Alabama violates the Voting Rights Act by discriminating against African Americans. John Eidsmoe, senior counsel for the Foundation for …
A federal judge in Eugene, Oregon, is considering arguments about whether a lawsuit brought by a group of children and a leading climate scientist can go forward. The plaintiffs’ lawsuit alleges that the federal government has known for more than 50 years that carbon pollution causes climate change, but it has failed to implement plans to phase out greenhouse gas emissions. …
A federal lawsuit accuses Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp on Wednesday of disenfranchising thousands of minorities ahead of the presidential election, alleging that the state’s “strict matching” requirement for information on registration forms blocked them from voter rolls. The Republican Kemp’s office called it an unwarranted attack by liberal groups. But according to the suit, black, …
A federal lawsuit has been filed against Metro Police and Metro Government. It comes after two officers shot and killed Darnell Wicker on August 8 at the Broadleaf Apartment complex near Crums Lane. Police said he was holding a tree saw when officers fired.
A federal judge has dismissed the civil rights lawsuit filed against the Mississippi Department of Human Services by a Hancock County woman whose two children may have been sexually abused while in state custody. The plaintiff, Alexandria Faye, filed the suit last year in U.S. District Court in Gulfport. Faye said her two children, then 1 and 2 years old, were sexually abused and contracted …
A federal appeals court Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against three Round Rock police officers involved in a 2014 traffic stop that left a Florence man paralyzed, ruling that excessive force was not used despite the severity of the driver’s injuries. William Slade Sullivan, described by the court as heavily intoxicated, morbidly obese and handicapped, was severely injured while being forcibly …
Lawsuit also claims that a home security company overheard the killings through a phone in real time, but did not call the cops. Brandon Martin(Photo: Corona Police) 544 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN15 COMMENTEMAILMORE The city of Corona and Riverside County are being sued over the violent deaths of three men who were allegedly killed by a former pro baseball player immediately after he was released …
A federal lawsuit claims Georgia’s voter registration process violates the Voting Rights Act and has prevented tens of thousands of people from being able to register to vote – many of them minorities. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Gainesville says a state policy causes voter registration applications to be rejected if the submitted information doesn’t exactly match that in …
The man who created the TED conference is embroiled in a multimillion-dollar legal dispute over the sale of a TED spinoff. Richard Saul Wurman is an architect and graphic designer who founded TED in 1984 to focus on technology, entertainment and design. He created TEDMED in 1995 to focus on health and medicine, and has since sold them both.