With the nation’s most closely watched congressional race headed to a runoff in June, a D.C.-based voting rights advocacy group is pressing in federal court to reopen voter registration. It is the latest legal maneuver for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. The non-profit law firm dates back to the Kennedy administration, but it’s been very active in Georgia since the …
Lynn Dorsey, the former executive director of the Webster Parish Convention and Visitors Bureau who was fired after she accidentally posted a nude video on the bureau’s Instagram, has filed a lawsuit looking to get her job back. (Henrietta Wildsmith/The Times) The video was reportedly posted via Instagram’s new Live feature. (Photo: Shreveport Times stock image) 16 …
The Idaho Supreme Court issued an order this morning in the challenge by 30 state lawmakers to Gov. Butch Otter’s veto of the grocery tax repeal bill, but it’s on a couple of procedural issues only. According to the order, the lawsuit had two procedural problems: The party being sued, Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney, wasn’t served with the lawsuit by mail at the same time it was …
Hundreds of Uber drivers in South Jersey are suing the Atlantic City Yellow Cab Co., alleging taxi drivers have been fraudulently posing as drivers working for the rideshare service to steal their customers. United Drivers South Jersey — a rideshare drivers group that serves South Jersey, Atlantic City and Philadelphia areas — filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday in Atlantic …
Major record labels are once again trying to force an Internet service provider into enforcing their copyrights by cutting off customers from the Internet over copyright accusations. The lawsuit they filed against Texas broadband provider Grande Communications suffers from many of the same due process problems as the BMG Music Publishing v. Cox Communications case, which is on appeal. The issue …
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Pac-12 Conference infringed on labor laws and thus owed money to a former Division I football player. The suit, filed by ex-University of Southern California football player Lamar Dawson, represents the continued legal battle to redefine college athletes as employees and secure them …
A former Liberty University student is suing the university. According to documents, the student is seeking over $102 million for defamation. The defendant, Cameron Jackson, says that a press release sent out by Liberty University last September violated his Title IX rights.
A small energy drink company with South Dakota origins has won a legal victory against former food giant Sara Lee, reviving a lawsuit that had been dismissed. A three-judge panel with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a district court judge in Texas wrongly dismissed some claims made by Jacked Up against Sara Lee. The decision comes nearly a year to the day when Jacked Up’s founder was jailed in Lake County, South Dakota on charges that he murdered …
A federal judge Wednesday refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the city by a man who spent 22 years in prison as a result of a wrongful conviction for the slaying of a 6-year-old boy. Mark Maxson was convicted of the 1992 killing of Lindsey Murdock on the South Side. He was freed in 2016 after DNA linked Osborne Wade to the killing.
Volkswagen Canada must pay $2.1 billion — the largest commercial settlement in the country’s history — to affected Canadian customers as part of a class-action vehicle-emissions lawsuit that started in Windsor. The eight-page decision handed down in Toronto Wednesday by Superior Court Justice Edward Belobaba directs Volkswagen to pay owners and lessees of 105,000 2-litre Volkswagen and Audi …