Guillermo del Toro‘s film The Shape of Water is being slapped with a copyright infringement lawsuit. The news comes at an inopportune time for the movie, as the 90th Academy Awards ceremony airs on March 4, 2018. The Shape of Water received 13 Oscar nominations, more than any other film this year.
A group of Greeley residents are suing the state over drilling regulations known as “setbacks.” State regulations require oil and gas sites to be 1,000 feet away from structures like schools and 500 feet from residences. The point of contention is a proposed 24 well-pad project by Extraction Oil and Gas, just outside the of the city of Greeley boundary. The project has been approved by Weld …
Academy of Art University has agreed to pay $20 million and to build 160 units of affordable housing to settle a lawsuit filed by the city of San Francisco over the institution’s widespread land-use violations. Under the proposed deal, announced Monday, the university will pay the city $20 million in cash …
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.
After opening several Star Wars-themed businesses, a man named Michael Brown has been sued by Lucasfilm for infringing on its intellectual property.
An Islamic academy will get $1.7 million and be allowed to build a new school after it settled a federal lawsuit against a Michigan township that initially denied its zoning request. The Michigan Islamic Academy will move ahead with plans to build the school and housing on land in Pittsfield Township, near Ann Arbor, after township officials approved the settlement Wednesday. The academy sued …
Six teenage refugees won a lawsuit Friday that would allow them to attend Lancaster’s McCaskey High School after school administrators allegedly diverted them into an alternative school. The plaintiffs, who range in age from 17 to 21, claimed that they were subject to routine pat-downs and were not properly instructed in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) at the district’s chosen school, …
A Pennsylvania school district is being sued for allegedly forcing refugees to attend schools that were unfit to serve their unique educational needs, instead sending them to receive boot camp-style discipline at a private academy. The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania announced earlier this summer the federal lawsuit against the School District of Lancaster for “illegally …
Deerfield Academy has settled a federal lawsuit filed by a former student who accused a former mathematics teacher at the prestigious private school of sexually abusing him. The victim, referred to in the lawsuit as “John Doe” and who was 14 at the time of the 1979 incident, filed it against Peter Hindle, who retired from Deerfield Academy in 2000 after working there for over four …