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Civil Rights Suit Filed Over Stephon Clark Arrests in Sacramento

On March 19, 2019 Civil rights attorney Mark Merin outlines about the upcoming legal battle for the 84 people who were arrested at a recent Stephon Clark protest in East Sacramento. Attorneys for the marchers confronted by police during Stephon Clark demonstrations in East Sacramento are suing the city of Sacramento, Sacramento County and its police and sheriff’s departments in federal court alleging civil rights violations in the mass crackdown that netted 84 people in the March protest. The 34-page suit filed Thursday in Sacramento federal court by attorneys Mark Merin and Paul Masuhara alleges a lengthy list of claims, including assault, false arrest, false imprisonment, unreasonable search and retaliation in the March 4 demonstrations that ended with riot gear-clad police and deputies herding the protesters onto the 51st Street overpass.


Trump DOJ Wants Role in Lawsuit Over Pay at 2 NC Med Schools | Belleville News-Democrat

The judge hearing the case set Monday as a new deadline for lawyers for Duke University and former Duke physician Dr. Danielle Seaman to file their preliminary settlement. Unlimited Digital Access: Only $0.99 For Your First Month Get full access to Belleville News-Democrat content across all your devices. The case springs from Seaman’s thwarted effort to move from her position at Duke to a …


Lawsuit Blames Tiger Woods for Drunken Driver’s Death

The parents of a drunken driver who died in a car crash last year are suing Tiger Woods. They blame the golfer and his girlfriend for allowing their son to drive home from their Florida restaurant while intoxicated. The wrongful death lawsuit filed Monday says Nicholas F. Immesberger was served excessive amounts of alcohol before the Dec. 10 car crash. Immesberger worked at The Woods …


Huntington Ingalls Latest Company Sued Over Pension Calculations

Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. shortchanges the pensions of certain retirees by calculating their benefits using an outdated mortality table, according to a proposed class action. The military shipbuilder is at least the seventh large employer to be hit with these allegations in the past months. Similar cases are pending against American Airlines, PepsiCo Inc., MetLife, U.S. Bancorp, …


NAR Files Motion to Dismiss ‘Bombshell’ Buyer-Side Lawsuit

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced over the weekend it has asked a judge to dismiss the bombshell class-action lawsuit that accuses both the trade group and major real estate companies of conspiring to determine buyers’ agents’ compensation. In a statement, NAR explained that it wants the suit thrown out because it “misrepresents” the organization’s rules that govern multiple …



Stormy Daniels Reaches Settlement in Suit Alleging Ex-Lawyer ‘Colluded’ With Cohen

A settlement has been reached in Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit alleging that her former lawyer acted as a “puppet” for Trump fixer Michael Cohen in an attempt to get her to go on Fox News and deny having an affair with President Trump. Citing federal court documents, CNN reports that Daniels and her former lawyer Keith Davidson have reached and executed a settlement. Daniels and Cohen have agreed to …


Amazonian Tribe Win Lawsuit to Block Big Oil’s Bid to Destroy Half a Million Acres of Rainforest

We will never sell our rainforest to the oil companies. Today, the courts recognized that the Waorani people, and all indigenous peoples have rights over our territories that must be respected. This is a legal precedent for indigenous rights. “This is a huge step forward in the battle to ensure indigenous people’s rights over their lands are respected. Guaranteeing indigenous peoples’ rights to …


Ohio State Football Players Were Abused by Team Physician: Lawsuit

Clouds pass above The Ohio State University’s football stadium, Saturday, May 18, 2019, in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Richard Strauss, a now-dead Ohio State team doctor sexually abused at least 177 male students from the 1970s through the 1990s, and numerous university officials got wind of what was going on over the years but did little or nothing to stop him, according to a report released by the …


Tiger Woods Speaks Out After Being Sued Over Drunken Driver’s Death

Tiger Woods and his girlfriend have been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit after a 24-year-old employee at the golfer’s flagship restaurant crashed his car after being served alcohol one night while working as a bartender. Woods is being sued along with his girlfriend, Erica Herman, and his Woods Jupiter corporation, which runs The Woods restaurant in Jupiter, Florida. The lawsuit, filed …