It began with a lawsuit by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) in 1987. The Texas border area, including the area from Brownsville to Corpus Christi to San Antonio to El Paso, with 20 percent of Texas population, has improved from 11 percent of Texas higher education revenues in 1993 to 18 percent in 2013, and remains at 18 percent today. The area has …
Civil rights attorney Bill Sheppard has sued the supervisors of elections in Duval, Nassau and Clay Counties, asking a judge to open the primary for state attorney. The suit was filed on behalf of registered voters in those three counties. State Attorney Angela Corey is seeking re-election and is being challenged by fellow Republicans Wesley White and Melissa Nelson.
Hedge funds who own debt at Puerto Rico’s Government Development Bank are accusing the bank and the island’s governor of giving preferential treatment to local creditors under a law designed to restructure GDB’s debt, signaling a breakdown in a tentative restructuring …
Abrams directed the first two Star Trek reboot movies and is producing the third one for Paramount; he says he convinced the studio to drop its controversial lawsuit against Axanar, a crowdfunded fan-film (a suit that included a dubious claim about the copyrightability of the Klingon language) telling them that the lawsuit “wasn’t an appropriate way to deal with the fans.” Abrams cited director …
The heart rate tracker technology in fancier models of Fitbit starts to become inaccurate when people start exercising, according to a study included in an amended class-action lawsuit against the company. In a press release, plaintiffs’ lawyers say California State Polytechnic University put both Fitbits and ECG sensors on 43 separate subjects tested for 65 minutes of moderate to …
A meeting set for Monday in a federal courtroom will try to settle a lawsuit filed by two young women against Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and sex offender. Epstein admitted to bringing teens to his Palm Beach mansion and paying them to give him sexually charged massages. In their lawsuit, the two women accused federal officials of giving Epstein a “sweetheart deal,” allowing …
The developers of a seven-home subdivision in the Town of Fishkill have been ordered to halt further work on drainage infrastructure that one of its neighbors says caused flooding on its property. State Supreme Court Judge Christine Sproat on May 17 granted the East Hook Sportsmen Association’s request for a preliminary …
The city of Honolulu has decided to pay a lesbian couple $80,000 to settle a lawsuit after the pair were wrongfully arrested by a police officer for kissing. …
Landowners have filed two lawsuits in northwest Iowa in an attempt to block construction of a $3.8 billion oil pipeline. The landowners …
A mother’s six-year conflict with the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind over her severely disabled daughter’s education has veered back into U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled May 10 the Salt Lake court must reconsider its decisions in the case of a woman who filed suit in 2013 challenging the USDB’s handling of her …