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Lawsuits Oct 19, 2017

Brady Center Files Lawsuit Against ATF for Refusing to Release Documents on Bad Apple Gun Dealers, ATF-Authored White Paper

Today, the Brady Center and co-counsel Covington & Burling filed suit against the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The lawsuit was filed after the ATF failed to comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for information regarding ATF’s secret — but leaked — memo about reducing regulations on the gun industry as well as documents about gun dealers that, according to ATF inspections, did not comply with their legal obligations to avoid selling guns to dangerous people. …

Lawsuits Oct 19, 2017

The Easy Take and the Right Take on the Charlottesville Lawsuit

Lark Turner Last week, a complaint was filed against the organizers of the Charlottesville rally that left one woman dead and many others injured. The lawsuit alleges that the rally organizers violated Reconstruction Era statutes and state laws by organizing a rally intended to result in violence. The lawsuit has been much covered; here, we wanted to quickly highlight the (too) easy takes on …

Lawsuits Oct 19, 2017

Lawsuit Filed After Detroit Police Officer Makes Violent Arrest at Meijer

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 …

Lawsuits Oct 19, 2017

Dollar Millionaire Andrey Dashin Files a Lawsuit Against Google and Yandex

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 …

Lawsuits Oct 11, 2017

A 21-Year-Old Who Was Shot in the Chest During the Las Vegas Shooting Is Suing the Mandalay Bay Hotel

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. …

Lawsuits Oct 11, 2017

Lawsuit: Clinic Is Responsible for Doctor Charged With Sexual Assault

The Bremerton nonprofit clinic that employed a Poulsbo doctor charged in 2014 with sexually assaulting women patients is being sued in federal court, with nine women claiming Peninsula Community Health Services failed to supervise Dr. Darren Chotiner even after knowing he kissed a patient in 2011. The criminal case against Chotiner made …

Lawsuits Oct 11, 2017

Lawsuit Filed Against Moran, Texas, Bump Stock Maker Slide Fire

A gun control group has filed suit against a bump stock manufacturer seeking damages and counseling for the survivors of a mass shooting in Las Vegas earlier this month. Gunman Stephen Paddock had 12 rifles mounted with bump stocks when he fired from his 32nd floor suite in the Mandalay Hotel at the street-level Route 91 Harvest Festival, before killing himself. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed the class action suit against …

Lawsuits Oct 11, 2017

Lawsuit: Student Sexually Assaults 4th Victim After Shawnee Mission Schools Fails to Report Claims

A father has filed a federal lawsuit against Shawnee Mission schools alleging the district failed to report sexual assault accusations against a middle school boy who later assaulted his eighth-grade daughter in class. According to court documents, the lawsuit claims the boy “forcibly put his hands down [her] pants and penetrated her” in a study hall classroom at Westridge …

Lawsuits Oct 11, 2017

Muhammad Ali Enterprises Files $30M Lawsuit Against Fox

Muhammad Ali Enterprises on Tuesday filed a $30 million federal lawsuit against Fox Broadcasting Company, claiming Fox used without permission the late boxer’s identity in a video that aired just before its broadcast of the Super Bowl last February. In the lawsuit filed in Chicago, Muhammad Ali Enterprises contends that Fox used Ali’s “name, image and likeness as the centerpiece of its three- …