A Brazilian judge suspended a nearly $50 billion lawsuit against mining firms responsible for the 2015 Samarco disaster Thursday, as negotiations between the companies and authorities moved forward. The decision came as part of a ruling in which federal judge Mário de Paula Franco Júnior approved a road map toward a final agreement between prosecutors and mining companies Vale …
Pennsylvania’s auditor general says a Harrisburg-based abortion alternative provider is suing his office to cover-up how it spent $906,000 in state funds. Real Alternatives filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Commonwealth Court. The nonprofit has a $30.2 million grant through a Department of Human Services program that provides pregnancy testing, counseling and other …
DOJ’s lawsuit against provider can proceed despite bankruptcy filing A federal lawsuit claiming a Tennessee-based skilled nursing operator provided “grossly substandard care” can proceed despite the provider’s bankruptcy filing, a judge ruled on Monday. Vanguard Healthcare LLC, along with a former director of operations, were named in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice and the …
A woman is suing the Milwaukee County jail, alleging that deputies refused to unchain her while she was giving birth because of a jail policy requiring inmates to remain shackled while they’re hospitalized, …
Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price gave House Republicans a preview of the next regulatory steps he’s planning to take to ease Obamacare’s rules, which will include more steps to stabilize the individual health insurance market and a measure to soften the law’s “essential health benefit” requirements. Here’s what HHS is considering, according to a GOP source in the room: Microsoft …
Twenty new plaintiffs joined a lawsuit Thursday against Michigan State University and Larry Nassar, alleging they were sexually abused by the former MSU sports doctor. The plaintiffs filed an amended complaint in federal court in Grand Rapids, bringing the total to more than 70 plaintiffs suing …
A woman has filed a lawsuit against the Phoenix suburb of Avondale and two of its police officers, claiming they forced her to take a sobriety test at the side of a city street while she was naked from the waist down. The lawsuit filed earlier this month said the woman had removed her pants before the 2016 traffic stop because she had soiled them earlier due to an incontinence problem. The …
A Maryland judge is scheduled to hold a hearing on a lawsuit stemming from President Donald Trump’s travel ban. Several individuals and groups including the American Civil Liberties Union originally filed the lawsuit in February over the initial ban, which was blocked in court and later revised.
A Lakeland man’s federal lawsuit alleges thousands of people are in danger of radioactivity, living in communities developed on top of former phosphate mines. Jeff Jerue filed the lawsuit last week against Alabama-based Drummond Company on behalf of property owners of the Oakbridge and Grasslands developments. According to Jerue, the picturesque neighborhood he grew to love is now harboring a …
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Tuesday against U.S. agencies for violating the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Paxton’s suit asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to force an up or down vote by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the licensing of the Yucca Mountain as well as to stop the Department of Energy from spending tax dollars on “consent-based” siting. “For decades, …