One of Jared Fogle ‘s child porn victims just agreed to drop her lawsuit against him, and it has all the ear markings of a settlement. Jane Doe filed docs Thursday saying she and her family agree to dismiss the civil suit against Fogle. You’ll recall, Fogle was sued by the woman for conspiring with his ex-partner, Russell Taylor , to secretly record a nude minor.
A Charlottesville Circuit Court judge denied a request Tuesday to stall the wrongful death lawsuit against George Huguely. Huguely was convicted of killing his girlfriend, University lacrosse player Yeardley Love, in 2012. In their $29.45 million …
In Flint, Michigan, the ACLU has filed a class action lawsuit arguing the public school system has not done enough to provide children exposed to lead with sufficient educational services. Flint’s lead poisoning began when an unelected emergency manager appointed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder switched the source of the city’s …
A plan by the Marine Corps to include spiritual fitness as a component of professional military education is unconstitutional and must be stopped, the leader of a group dedicated to keeping religion out of the military says. Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, told Military.com he plans to assemble a class-action lawsuit if the Corps proceeds with its …
A federal civil rights lawsuit that seeks $1 million in damages has been filed against the town, Police Chief Paul Madera and five of his officers. The lawsuit stems from an incident at plaintiff Thomas Tzikas’ automobile repair garage on July 1, 2013. Officers were called there for a report of a man inside the business after hours with a flashlight.
A Birmingham man is asking a judge to remove a statewide amendment from the Nov. 8 ballot because he says it could overturn a judge’s ruling that halted Jefferson County’s plan to refinance more than a half-billion dollars in school construction debt and divert much of the $60 million in savings to the county’s general fund and other non-educational projects. Besides the general …
The Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in Portland, Ore. is seen in this file photo. The Westland Irrigation District in Northeast Oregon is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of cheating smaller growers out of water.
On a Saturday night this past March, Melissa Sheldrick gave her eight-year-old son Andrew his usual liquid medication for his REM sleep disorder and then tucked him into bed. When she went to wake him in the morning, her little boy was dead. It’s a nightmare almost too painful to even imagine.
A federal judge in Denver has denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Fort Collins that claims an ordinance that bars women from exposing their breasts in public violates the Constitution and is rooted in outdated puritanical values and discrimination. U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson said that the plaintiffs, Free the Nipple, an association of Colorado residents who advocate for …
An appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday dealt a setback to a long-running lawsuit against the wireless industry over health concerns surrounding cellphones, deciding that a different legal standard for evidence should have been applied. The decision by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals will further prolong the litigation, initially filed in 2001, as plaintiffs must now produce …