The Ohio Supreme Court ordered a case to mediation to solve a public records dispute between Kent State University and a former softball player that accused the university of covering up a sexual assault by her former coach’s son. The high court on Aug. 5 ruled the case to mediation instead of having in-person arguments after attorneys for the former player, Laura Kesterson, filed …
A Macon couple claims that District Attorney David Cooke and others seized their assets, forced them into bankruptcy and destroyed their lives — all based on false evidence. The Bartletts and six other people were arrested in May 2015 and charged with running illegal gambling through their businesses. One of the places raided was Captain Jack’s Crab Shack in Byron, owned by the Bartletts.
A Federal Civil Rights lawsuit has been filed against Gerber Collision and Glass. A 21-year-old claims he was the victim of racist behavior, at the Novi location, where he recently quit. Ernest Garner filed the lawsuit this week against the auto repair shop headquartered in Illinois and his supervisor in Novi.
A man who was arrested and struck with a Taser stun gun by police several years ago has filed a federal lawsuit claiming officers used excessive force. Miguel Duran of Vero Beach was 53 years old when he was charged with disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest without violence on Dec. 21, 2012. Four months later, a judge acquitted him of …
A former Portsmouth School District employee will likely have to pay a civil judgment as part of a lawsuit brought months after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a female student. Last month, a judge dismissed a major portion of the lawsuit, which …
An atheist group and a Tennessee sheriff have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over the latter’s Easter-themed message on Facebook this March, the Cleveland [Tenn.] Banner reported on Friday. The plaintiffs will be paid $15,000 in damages and their attorneys will recoup $26,000 in legal fees, paid out by a lawsuit-insurance fund paid into by local taxpayers, the newspaper noted. The …
Another lawsuit has been filed over the contaminated water from the West Morgan East Lawrence Water Authority. The lawsuit lists roughly 160 plaintiffs, all of them residents of Morgan or Lawrence Counties, and all of them customers of the West Morgan East Lawrence Water Authority. The defendants are 3M, the Dyneon Corporation, Daikin and the West Morgan East Lawrence Water …
Two separate lawsuits have been filed against a Jackson apartment complex following the May shooting death of a 19-year-old at the same time family members of the victim fight over who should be the executor of …
Three journalists who reported on the 2014 Ferguson riots for Al-Jazeera America filed suit Monday against St. Charles County and three police officers, claiming personal injuries and violations of their constitutional rights. The suit by Ash-har Quraishi, Marla Cichowski and Sam Winslade in U.S. District Court in St. Louis names St. Charles County, Deputy Michael Anderson of the …
City attorneys want a federal judge to toss a lawsuit filed by a Tulane professor last month that argues the city should remove the statue of Andrew Jackson from Jackson Square if it also takes down Confederate monuments. In a filing with the U.S. District Court on Monday (Aug. 15), the city argues it has the right to target removal of Confederate monuments over others in the city, and …