A man arrested after posting his encounter with Wetumpka police officers to YouTube in June has filed a federal lawsuit claiming his constitutional rights were violated. Lynwood Keith Golden, of Coosada, was arrested June 7, five days after filming outside the Wetumpka Police Department. He was charged with interference with public safety communications.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. refilled patients’ prescriptions without their permission and steered them to more expensive drugs in order to boost sales and profits, according to a lawsuit that sheds new light on the drug company’s secret operations. T. Rowe Price Group Inc. sued Valeant and its top executives, using information from former employees to back its claims that the …
The Missouri Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the University of Missouri Board of Curators in support of a university law professor’s challenge to the campus firearms ban. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Boone County, Andrew Hirth, deputy general counsel for Attorney General Chris Koster, wrote that the campus ban on guns conflicts with state law.
In the wake of a devastating lawsuit and a proposed selloff of its holding company to Univision, Gawker.com will shut down next week, ending almost 14 years of independent — and at times inflammatory — publishing. Gawker filed for bankruptcy protection in June, after a jury ordered it to pay celebrity wrestler Hulk Hogan $140 million in damages for the publication of a sex tape in which he is …
The family of a nine-year-old Pasco School District special needs student is filing a federal lawsuit against the Pasco School District (PSD) after they say a PSD teacher allegedly abused the student. The family filed a complaint Monday saying Ratree Albers, special education teacher at Robert Frost Elementary in February of 2014 abused students in her care, according …
A Contra Costa Superior Court judge has upheld a ruling that allows a lawsuit against developers and the city of Lafayette to move forward. Judge Judith S. Craddick affirmed Aug. 9 a tentative ruling rejecting the city and developer O’Brien Land Company’s request that the lawsuit filed by the San Francisco Bay Area Renters’ Federation not move forward. The city and developer filed …
A national anti-gambling group may sue to try to reverse a new law legalizing daily fantasy sports contests in New York State. “We believe in improving the lives of New Yorkers, and part of that mission is to repeal the state’s predatory gambling policies, and litigation is part of that effort,” said Les Bernal, national director of the Washington, D.C.–based Stop Predatory Gambling. …
A southwestern Michigan man and a civil rights group are suing a theater company, saying it does not provide captions at a Benton Harbor venue. Graham Forsey of St. Joseph and the National Association of the Deaf say the discrimination suit was filed Monday against Loeks Theater, Inc. They say that without captions, deaf and hard of hearing patrons can’t understand …
The official oral surgeon of the Charlotte Hornets and Charlotte Checkers has been named in a lawsuit filed by two former employees.
Today the District Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit by the Animal Legal Defense Fund—the nation’s leading legal advocacy organization for animals, concerned consumers, and a coalition of animal …