Detroit Police Chief James Craig initially said the officer who struck a man at least four times, including once in the face, with his baton during a violent arrest at Meijer in Detroit Oct. 8 was justified. “Our findings are somewhat different than when I first reported this matter,” Craig said Monday. Craig now feels the officer should have taken steps to deescalate the situation before …
The whole patent system needs to be overhauled. I’m not defending Apple if they did something wrong then they should pay up but small companies patent trolling big companies is not the way to run a business. You are correct, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas is notoriously known as the home of Patent Trolls..
Apple has a product, so itâs hardly patent trolling.
Dollar millionaire Andrey Dashin files a lawsuit against Google and Yandex The right to be forgotten: the owner of Alpari retail network cleans the Internet The owner of the group of brokerage companies Alpari and ForexTime Ltd (FXTM) Andrey Dashin demands to block a number of search links with false information about itself. As it became known to Realnoe Vremya, he appealed to the Kazan court …
After years of litigation over the 2012 firing of a single Cook County sheriff’s police officer, dozens of other officers, jail guards and courtroom deputies fired for misconduct could get their jobs back, and hundreds more suspended without pay could be in line for possibly six-figure payouts. The state Supreme Court last month declined to consider an appeal of a lower court ruling that found …
Listen to the entire show – River to River This week, animal rights and free speech organizations filed a lawsuit against the State of Iowa that challenges a state law from 2012, often referred to as Iowa’s ag-gag law or ag-whistleblower law. The law made it illegal to get a job at a livestock farm through misrepresentation in order to conduct an undercover animal cruelty investigation. The …
The cigarette makers eventually settled with the state for about $17.6 billion.
Big Tobacco is still paying that settlement and it hasn’t been too much of a burden. They just increased the price of cigarettes and went on to deal with other states and the federal government with the money forked over by millions of smokers. In the end, government and lawyers raked in the cash. The tobacco industry did have to change its marketing strategy a bit, but the same cigarettes are still available just about everywhere—selling well enough to generate record profits for the top tobacco companies—and smokers are still getting sick, still dying. …
An attorney is seeking class-action status on behalf of Jewish prisoners in Michigan in a lawsuit that claims they’re being denied kosher certified meals. Attorneys for the prisoners filed a motion Monday, Oct. 9 in Flint U.S. District Court, seeking class-action status after claiming there are between 50 and 100 prisoners from the Michigan Department of Corrections who have been …
Danny Meyer, founder of Union Square Hospitality Group Spencer Platt/Getty Some of the biggest names in fine dining are being sued over their conversion to a no-tipping policy in their restaurants. The restaurateurs named in the lawsuit â filed by a diner who claims to have been overcharged â include Danny Meyer of the Union Square Hospitality Group (and Shake Shack fame), Tom Colicchio …
A victim of the Las Vegas shooting has filed a lawsuit against
the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
On Monday, 21-year-old Paige Gasper filed a lawsuit against the
Mandalay Bay and MGM Resorts International, the hotel’s parent company, alleging that the hotel was “negligent or grossly negligent” in failing to notice or take precautions against the shooter stockpiling guns in his room, and that employees were not adequately trained to notice and report suspicious activity. …
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed a motion on Tuesday to dismiss death row inmate Jack Greene’s request to suspend his execution, claiming that the court has no jurisdiction to halt his impending execution. Greene’s attorneys recently filed a motion in Jefferson County, asking for a hearing to determine whether Greene is legally competent enough to be executed. …