Lawsuits


Inglewood Cooked Its Books to Lure NFL Team, Former Accounting Manager Says

The lure of the NFL was just too much for Inglewood, a former city employee charges in a federal lawsuit. Barbara Ohno, Inglewood’s former budget and accounting manager, claims that the future home of the Los Angeles Rams massaged its accounting books to mask its financial problems. In the complaint, Ohno says that Mayor James T. Butts ordered employees to “create a facade of financial …


Showtime Sues Top Rank Over Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight

The 2015 boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, billed as the Fight of the Century, was widely seen as a disappointment. Now, a year after a hail of class action lawsuits followed the match, Showtime Networks Inc. (SNI) is suing Pacquiao’s promoter Top Rank Inc. (TRI) for an alleged failure to live up to an indemnification agreement. In New York federal court, Showtime filed …


Former Valve Employee Files $3.1 Million Lawsuit Over Wrongful Dismissal

A former Valve translator has filed a $3.1 million lawsuit against the company, alleging that she faced discrimination, a hostile work environment, misclassification as an employee, and ultimately, wrongful termination. The suit, available in full on Scribd, claims that the employee’s primary responsibility was translating content into Spanish, although she also served as a liaison with law …


Lawsuit: Texas’s Largest Jail Is Full of People Who Are Locked Up for Being Poor

According the the filings in a lawsuit brought by Equal Justice Under Law against Harris County, Texas, 77% of the inmates in Harris County Jail — largest in Texas, third largest in America — are there because they couldn’t make a bail payment of $5,000 or less. Bail in the jail is assessed via video-links during which the accused are instructed not to speak and are not given access to …


Lawsuit Alleges Planned Parenthood Attack Could Have Been Prevented

A lawsuit that was filed against Planned Parenthood claims the organization should have known an attack like the one that happened in Colorado Springs on Black Friday was likely to happen. First close look at Planned Parenthood building since the Black Friday shooting. The lawsuit was filed in Denver District Court on Friday and will be delivered to Planned Parenthood tomorrow, according to …



Lawsuit Tackles National Bison Range Give-Away Legislation

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has not done the environmental analysis required by law before sponsoring legislation to turn the National Bison Range over to local tribes, according to a federal lawsuit filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The suit aims to force FWS to ascertain potential impacts before proceeding any further with the first …



Victim in $10M Rape Lawsuit Against Virginia Wesleyan Testifies

The victim at the center of a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Virginia Wesleyan College took to the stand Monday describing what she called five hours of brutal rape. The victim, known as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, is suing the school for negligence, and is blaming them for creating an environment that made it easy for sexual assaults. The …