Today young people filed a constitutional climate lawsuit against the Norwegian government for allowing oil companies to drill for new oil in the Arctic Barents Sea, endangering young people and future generations with more climate pollution. The plaintiffs, Nature and Youth – the largest youth-led organization in Norway – and Greenpeace Norway, argue that Norway has violated …
Harry Shearer, increasingly the sonorous voice of protest in various contract disputes, is suing the entertainment groups Vivendi and StudioCanal for $125 million , over profits he says he was cheated out of for This Is Spinal Tap . Shearer played Derek Smalls, bassist and self-described “lukewarm water,” in the 1984 metal mockumentary, which was based on characters he, Christopher Guest, and …
Twenty-three people were sickened and one person died. Last month we talked with the family of Joe Butler, a 29-year-old, who contracted the severe form of pneumonia. He is now out of the hospital, but has a long road ahead of him.
After opening several Star Wars-themed businesses, a man named Michael Brown has been sued by Lucasfilm for infringing on its intellectual property.
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Lakewood Police Department for its use of a now-retired police dog that has been at the center of four civil-rights lawsuits for inflicting savage bites. U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton, in an order last week sending the case to trial, said allegations contained in a lawsuit filed in 2015 by Kerry Tucker “could determine that …
Dash Boutique is blind to the needs of the visually impaired — at least, that’s the claim made by a lawsuit filed against the boutique chain founded by the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” family. In the suit filed last week in federal court in Florida, Andres Gomez claims that the website for the chain, which offers merchandise for sale, discriminates against the visually impaired. “This case …
A lawsuit has been filed against the City of Shreveport related to the water rate billing error that cost the city about $1 million of ratepayer generated revenue over the past year. Sand Beach Properties LLC filed a lawsuit …
A lawsuit filed by a woman slammed to the ground by an Austin police officer, seen in dash camera video, has been dismissed by a U.S. district judge, Thursday. Austin police officer Bryan Richter, the officer in the video, and the city of Austin were named as defendants in the lawsuit. While the lawsuit against the city has been dismissed, the suit against the officer is ongoing.
It’s been five years since a group of residents sued Princeton University over their tax-exempt status and this week, they finally came to a deal. On Friday, the university agreed to make millions of dollars worth of contributions over the next few years to the town of Princeton, to a fund for homeowners in the town and to a corporation that helps provide housing for economically …
A Connecticut judge has dismissed a lawsuit that was filed against the manufacturer and seller of the weapon used in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. The dismissal comes months after a judge allowed the case to proceed against Remington Arms, maker of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, as well as the distributor and seller. The families sought damages and relief in …