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News Nov 4, 2016

What You Need to Know About the Donald Trump Rape Lawsuit — and the Accuser Who Claims He Raped Her When She Was 13

An attorney helping an anonymous California woman accusing Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit of raping her in the ’90s when she was 13 announced that the woman would go public for the first time Wednesday . But as the press conference was about to begin in the California offices of attorney Lisa Bloom, Bloom called it off, citing threats to the plaintiff, known in court papers as Jane Doe. …

News Nov 3, 2016

Gawker Reaches $31M Settlement in Hulk Hogan Lawsuit Over Sex Tape: Reports

Gawker Media has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with Hulk Hogan , according to multiple reports, ending a years-long legal battle waged against it with the partial support of tech billionaire Peter Thiel. As Gawker founder Nick Denton wrote in a blog post this week announcing the settlement: “The saga is over.” The deal requires Gawker to pay Hogan (né Terry Bollea) $31 million, …

News Nov 3, 2016

Kevin Turner, Lead Plaintiff in NFL Concussion Lawsuit, Had CTE

Dozens of times since beginning their work on the brains of former football players, boxers and military members who suffered repeated blows to the head, researchers have announced their findings with slides of damaged tissue, strong words about the danger of concussions and perhaps a call for sports officials to take the issue more seriously. At a Boston University medical conference …

News Nov 2, 2016

Trump Golf Club Was Hit With Lawsuit From Men’s Rights Activist Over Breast Cancer Awareness Month

In the dojo of frivolous litigation, Donald Trump is to men’s rights activist Steve Frye what a sensei is to a janitor. Frye, a resident of Huntington Beach, California, likes to sue service industry companies that offer any sort of “ladies’ night”-type promos. In 2013, for instance, he filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against Cha Cha’s Latin Kitchen, from which he demanded $4,000 in compensation …

News Nov 1, 2016

Universal Faces Lawsuit Over Land Deal Disclaimer

Universal Orlando’s parent company is facing a lawsuit that could slow down its plans to develop a new theme park off International Drive in Orlando. The lawsuit claims there are restrictions on building a theme park on that property on Sand Lake Road. Channel 9’s Jamie Holmes found out Universal’s own effort to limit competition that is …

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News Nov 1, 2016

Anthem Is Cutting Out-Of-Network Health Coverage in a ‘Bait and Switch,’ Lawsuit Says

On the first day of Obamacare open enrollment, a consumer group sued Anthem Blue Cross for attempting to automatically renew policies that no longer cover out-of-network costs for hundreds of thousands of Californians. A lawyer for Consumer Watchdog said Tuesday that Anthem was “railroading existing members into bare-bones plans” without properly disclosing the change to them in recent renewal …

News Nov 1, 2016

Scandal Could Lead to Lawsuits Against Sugary Beverage Industry

Recent findings reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine show that the sugar-sweetened beverage industry has financially backed scientific researchers to discard a link between sugary beverage consumption and metabolic outcomes such as obesity and diabetes. It is the latest in a series of related scandals to rock the public health world. This news, coupled with the revelation that two of …

News Nov 1, 2016

North Carolina NAACP Files Lawsuit to Reinstate Canceled Voter Registrations

The North Carolina NAACP claims Republicans are trying to suppress the minority vote in the Tar Heel State. So, group is suing the state to stop county election boards from marking voter registrations void. Election officials felt the need to cancel several registrations because mailings to voters’ addresses came back as undeliverable.

News Nov 1, 2016

Lawsuit Argues Fire Dept. Out of Step on Gender Equality

It would never have occurred to me that having rhythm was a prerequisite to being a good paramedic. But the people who run the Chicago Fire Department must have thought so. For two years, the Fire Department administered something called the Step Test as a graduation requirement for paramedic candidates at the Training Academy.