The principal of the public Harlem Renaissance High School is a self-help obsessive who pressured his staffers to pony up hundreds of dollars for the popular Landmark Forum self-improvement courses, a new lawsuit alleges. Principal Nadav Zeimer repeatedly pressed Spanish teacher Catherine Owens and other staffers to join Landmark, a program that can cost upwards of $600 for a weekend, according …
Two women whose children were seen by an Albuquerque pediatric urologist facing a federal child pornography charge filed a class-action lawsuit Saturday alleging that the patients were “treated by a depraved sexual predator” who used his position “to engage in pedophilia and voyeurism.” Dr. Guy Rosenschein was arrested in November and remains in federal custody pending trial on charges of …
According to a class-action lawsuit, more than 200 people hit with “felony riot” charges following their mass arrest at Friday’s inauguration protest in Washington, D.C. were indiscriminately swept up “without warning and without any dispersal order” and attacked with chemical weapons, flash-bang grenades and batons. The crackdown, which was overseen by acting Metropolitan Police Department …
The American Civil Liberties Union and Juvenile Law Center have filed a federal class action lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. The lawsuit stems from allegations of abuse and neglect inside two of the state’s youth correctional facilities. “We hope this lawsuit will force the State of Wisconsin to treat young people in its custody with basic decency,” ACLU Wisconsin …
A CBS shareholder charges in a new legal filing that corporate board members and CEO Leslie Moonves were “recklessly profligate” when they approved nearly $13 million in pay over three years for one-time chairman Sumner Redstone , after it became clear that he was “incapacitated beyond recovery.” The most damning new evidence in the amended complaint, filed in Delaware Chancery Court, comes …
The fight over what to do with North Carolina’s sex offenders could be headed to federal court after a lawsuit was filed to reduce the restrictions placed on them. A North Carolina nonprofit is part of the team that filed the lawsuit. “There’s a place for a kind of register.
An allergic reaction to an antibiotic administered at a Sycamore hospital killed a Plainfield great-grandmother, according to a lawsuit filed in Will County court. Brian Pickle, the son of Lydia Pickle, is suing Kindred Hospital, three doctors and Fox Valley Medical Associates. Lydia Pickle was admitted to Kindred Hospital on Jan. 10, 2015, “for treatment related to her diagnosis …
A long-running California wage-and-hour class action alleging Penske Logistics LLC failed to provide truck drivers with meal breaks will be settled for $750,000, a deal that will cancel a scheduled February trial and distribute $332,500 to drivers after attorneys’ fees and other costs are deducted, according to a court filing late …
A suit before the Colorado Court of Appeals today sought to reclaim revenue the state now uses to pay for its elections — leaving its future funding in question. The case, filed by the National Federation of Independent Business , claims that businesses carry an unfair burden of the cost of funding the state’s elections, including costs carried by counties. Attorneys for NFIB point out that …
Last week, University of Connecticut head football coach Randy Edsall pulled a verbal scholarship offer to Ryan Dickens, a high school senior, with just 17 days left in the college recruitment process. Since then, several media sources have described Randy Edsall’s conduct as ” dishonorable .” However, Randy Edsall and the University of Connecticut’s conduct may have been far worse than that.