The city of Honolulu has decided to pay a lesbian couple $80,000 to settle a lawsuit after the pair were wrongfully arrested by a police officer for kissing. …
Landowners have filed two lawsuits in northwest Iowa in an attempt to block construction of a $3.8 billion oil pipeline. The landowners …
A mother’s six-year conflict with the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind over her severely disabled daughter’s education has veered back into U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled May 10 the Salt Lake court must reconsider its decisions in the case of a woman who filed suit in 2013 challenging the USDB’s handling of her …
Two Chicago policemen are suing the city of Chicago, claiming that the police department retaliated against them after they cooperated with a federal investigation into corrupt officers, and now the judge wants the mayor to take the stand, the Guardian reported. The two officers had helped the FBI uncover a narcotics team that was collecting money from drug dealers in exchange for protection. …
A former Scranton housing inspector has appealed a federal judge’s ruling that dismissed her political retaliation and gender discrimination lawsuit. Patricia Jennings-Fowler contends U.S. District Judge Malachy Mannion erred when he ruled she failed to present sufficient evidence to support her claims. Ms. Jennings-Fowler had worked for the city in various capacities since 2009.
The Fort Worth City Council on Tuesday will vote on settling a lawsuit in which it claimed Chesapeake Energy Corporation cheated taxpayers out of millions of dollars in royalties for natural gas it drilled under city land. It is not immediately clear how much the proposed settlement is worth. A notation on the council agenda said the terms will be made public but did not specify when.
Since January, Landmark Theatres and Regal Entertainment have been at odds in federal court in DC in a lawsuit from Landmark, which operates the six-screen Atlantic Plumbing Cinema in Shaw, accusing Regal, the nation’s largest cinema chain, of preventing it from showing big releases. In its suit, Landmark claims Regal, which owns the 14-auditorium theater at Gallery Place, has been abusing its …
With national attention focused on the role of superdelegates in picking candidates, a federal lawsuit filed in Trenton this month sheds light on how voting is conducted at closed local party conventions and how it can escalate political infighting. The lawsuit alleges that several superdelegates at a Democratic mini-convention in Berkeley, Ocean County, voted more than once, which led to …
“I mean, they got there first. But now you want to take it from them? Sort of ironic.”
The only people that wish to “take” anything in this case is people that wish to apply the term native American only to themselves, or other people, while excluding other native Americans. They are shamefully and disgracefully taking the word native for themselves.
As to what’s “ironic,” that would be a group of people misappropriating …
A gay Texas pastor who sued Whole Foods alleging that a cake he bought from the grocer had an anti-gay slur written on it in icing has dropped his lawsuit. Jordan Brown of Austin issued an apology on Monday, saying he was “wrong to pursue this matter and use the media to perpetuate this story.” According to the website for Brown’s church, he is a Pittsburgh native.