A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by environmental groups involving a wolf- and coyote-shooting contest in Idaho, as part of a settlement agreement that requires federal officials to notify the groups if another contest is planned. The agreement Wednesday follows several years of court skirmishes between the groups and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management involving Idaho for …
The Chesapeake School Board has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a boy with Down syndrome and a history of autism. The lawsuit alleged school personnel strapped him into a chair as a means of behavior control. Initially, the lawsuit included both the school board and 10 unnamed employees, but the employees were removed, leaving the school board as the only …
The family of Tony Robinson, the 19-year-old fatally shot by police in Madison in 2015, has apparently settled a federal civil rights lawsuit. Family members and their attorneys plan to hold a news conference Thursday to discuss the $3.3 million settlement. Madison police officer Matt Kenny, who is white, shot the unarmed black teenager March 6, 2015 in an apartment house …
A Muslim woman has filed a lawsuit in a court at New York alleging that police officers forced her to remove her hijab and snapped photos of her after ‘false arrest’. Rabab Musa, 34, alleged in the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit that she was “unlawfully arrested” last September as she left a Starbucks in Midtown. …
Andrea Irwin hugs her son Malik Robinson, 15, outside the state Capitol Thursday as her attorneys discuss the $3.35 million settlement of a lawsuit the family brought against the city and Madison police Officer Matt Kenny after he shot and killed her son Tony Robinson Jr. in 2015.
The former CEO of a payment processing company had a taste for strip clubs and high-priced escorts — and was so enamored with one of the women he gave her and her mother jobs, a lawsuit charges. The company, iPayment, alleges in the lawsuit that Carl Grimstad expensed frequent golf outings, visits to jiggle joints and shopping sprees for his wife — running up a tab of about $445,000. The …
Buy Photo Pictured is a wall with waterfalls inside the Verona offices of Nexus Services Inc.(Photo: By Brad Zinn/The News Leader)Buy Photo 13 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE A Honduran man and woman who fled their country’s gang violence in 2015 and sought asylum in the United States have filed a multi-million dollar civil class-action lawsuit against Libre by Nexus, claiming the Verona- …
A Chattanooga attorney has filed a new civil lawsuit in the Woodmore Elementary school bus crash on November 21st that killed 6 children and injured dozens more. This is the 11th civil lawsuit filed in the case. One federal lawsuit has also been filed.
A firm poised to purchase the vacant Novartis campus for $18 million has filed a lawsuit claiming the deal has been stymied by pharmaceutical company’s refusal to allow aggressive environmental testing. A lawsuit filed Feb. 10 in state Supreme Court in New City by RS Old Mill LLC is …
An Ontario judge has certified a class action lawsuit against medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific Ltd., in what lawyers say is the first successfully certified contested action concerning transvaginal meshes in Canada. Daniel Bach says it is rare for judge’s to adjourn certification proceedings to allow plaintiffs to submit further evidence and even rarer for those actions to …