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Wounded Indianapolis Officer Confronts Law Protecting Gun Sellers

A convicted felon walked into an Indianapolis sporting goods store with a friend in December 2011. In the presence of a store employee, the felon pointed out the handgun he wanted, and the friend purchased it for him a few hours later, a lawsuit alleges. Two months later, the felon, Demetrious Martin, used the handgun to shoot Dwayne Runnels, an …


The US Government Just Moved to Block a Deal Between 2 Farming Giants

The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against
Deere’s planned purchase of Monsanto’s Precision Planting
business. The lawsuit, filed in a Chicago court, said the deal would remove
competition and raise costs for farmers, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Deere, which is the world’s largest maker of agricultural
machinery, agreed to buy the unit from Monsanto in November.


Mike Garrett, USC Heisman Winner Faces Sex Harassment Lawsuit

A former U.S. Olympian has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging Mike Garrett, the 1965 winner of the Heisman Trophy and former athletics director at USC, sexually harassed her and other female employees at Cal State Los Angeles, where Garrett recently served as the athletic director.



Women Who Visited a CCA Prison Allege They Were Forced to Prove They Were Menstruating.

The Corrections Corporation of America, the country’s second largest for-profit prison operator, is fighting to seal documents in a lawsuit that claims guards at a Tennessee prison required female visitors to undergo strip searches to prove they were menstruating. The lawsuit, filed by a woman in January 2015, alleges that as she passed through a security checkpoint on her way to visit a loved …


Lawrence Police Officer Named in Excessive Force Lawsuit No Longer Employed by the Department

A Lawrence police officer accused of using excessive force during the arrest of a local firefighter no longer works for the department, the city says. Tuesday was the last day of work for Lawrence Police Officer Frank McClelland, who is listed among the defendants in an excessive use of force lawsuit filed against the city, said Assistant City Manager Diane Stoddard. He began working for the …


Google Tries to End Browser Privacy Violation Lawsuit

Google is trying again to end an advertisement tracking privacy violation court case brought against it in 2012, this time with a settlement offer of US$5.5 million (A$7.3 million). At the heart of the legal action is Google’s bypass of the default cookie settings in Apple’s Safari for iOS and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browsers. Cookies are small text files that web servers can place on …


Op-Ed: Lawsuit Targeting Denver’s Homeless Policies Is Off-Base and Reckless

Homelessness may be the most difficult issue these days for municipal government, at least in big cities like Denver. Every conceivable policy is controversial and denounced as inhumane or, alternatively, as an affront to neighborhoods and the safety and image of commercial districts. Denver has tried to thread the needle by offering a broad spectrum of services on which the city says it spends …


Concussion Settlement Objectors Drop Their appeal

Three years to the day after the NFL and thousands of former players reached a tentative settlement in a massive concussion class action, the settlement is finally official. Via the New York Post, Monday came and went without the former players who opposed the settlement filing a petition for appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, ending the case and allowing the settlement to proceed. “It’s been …


P2P Firm Troubled by Lawsuits Due to the New Rule

Yirendai, the first Chinese peer-to-peer lender that went public in US, was getting into several class action lawsuits on share price decline in US stock market, as foreign investors concerned about the regulation taken out by the Chinese government would hit the firm. New York and New Jersey-based law firm Bronstein,Gewirtz & Grossman filed lawsuit on Yirendai of “materially false misleading …