Nick Gordon, who was the partner of Whitney Houston’s late daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, has lost a wrongful death lawsuit filed by her estate. Brown, 22, died in July 2015, six months after being found unresponsive in a bath by Gordon and a friend at her home in Atlanta. An autopsy found drug intoxication and the immersion of her face in the water contributed to her death.
A Dominican woman wrongly classified as a man and held with male inmates for 10 hours in a Miami prison three years ago has filed a civil rights lawsuit. Fior Pichardo de Veloz was arrested at a Miami airport in November of 2013 on what lawyers say was a decades-old drug charge that was eventually dismissed. She was initially booked as a female but medical staff reclassified her as a male …
The production companies involved with Tom Cruise‘s “American Made,” formerly known as “Mena,” is getting hit by a wrongful death lawsuit, TheWrap has learned. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the family of Carlos Berl, the pilot who died when a plane carrying him and two others crashed during production in Colombia in September 2015. The complaint alleges that the production companies …
A liberal group that has filed suit to change the way Alabama judges are elected isn’t likely to get very far, according to a constitutional law expert in the state. The lawsuit – filed by the NAACP Alabama chapter and four black voters – alleges the state of Alabama violates the Voting Rights Act by discriminating against African Americans. John Eidsmoe, senior counsel for the Foundation for …
A federal judge in Eugene, Oregon, is considering arguments about whether a lawsuit brought by a group of children and a leading climate scientist can go forward. The plaintiffs’ lawsuit alleges that the federal government has known for more than 50 years that carbon pollution causes climate change, but it has failed to implement plans to phase out greenhouse gas emissions. …
A federal lawsuit accuses Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp on Wednesday of disenfranchising thousands of minorities ahead of the presidential election, alleging that the state’s “strict matching” requirement for information on registration forms blocked them from voter rolls. The Republican Kemp’s office called it an unwarranted attack by liberal groups. But according to the suit, black, …
Lawsuit also claims that a home security company overheard the killings through a phone in real time, but did not call the cops. Brandon Martin(Photo: Corona Police) 544 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN15 COMMENTEMAILMORE The city of Corona and Riverside County are being sued over the violent deaths of three men who were allegedly killed by a former pro baseball player immediately after he was released …
A federal lawsuit claims Georgia’s voter registration process violates the Voting Rights Act and has prevented tens of thousands of people from being able to register to vote – many of them minorities. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Gainesville says a state policy causes voter registration applications to be rejected if the submitted information doesn’t exactly match that in …
The plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against Caribbean Cruise Line and a tax-exempt non-profit group, among others, for their alleged robocalls — which offered a free cruise for taking part in a political opinion survey — reportedly could get a record $76 million. Nicole Su, an associate in Dorsey Whitney LLP’s Southern California office, reported earlier this …
Two Cleveland police officers under investigation for the November 2014 death of Tanisha Anderson responded Wednesday to a lawsuit brought 20 months ago by the woman’s family. Officers Scott Aldridge and Bryan Myers deny any wrongdoing in responding to a mental-health emergency at the home of Anderson’s family on the 1300 block of Ansel Road. Anderson, 37, suffered from …