Maurice the rooster’s early morning cock-a-doodle-doo won’t be silenced after neighbors filed a lawsuit over the noise, a French court ruled Thursday. The 4-year-old rooster’s dawn crowing exasperated its neighbors, a retired couple who moved to the small island of Oleron off of France’s Atlantic coast. “I hope it will set a precedent for them.”The lawsuit was just one of several cases pitting …
Antonio Brown’s former trainer alleges in a lawsuit that the New England Patriots receiver raped her and sexually abused her on two other occasions. The paper first reported the lawsuit, filed in Florida’s Southern District, that claims Brown sexually assaulted her twice in June 2017. The lawsuit claims Brown later sent text messages about the …
NEW YORK — New York City is suing T-Mobile for what it calls “abusive sales tactics” at Metro by T-Mobile stores, the wireless carrier’s prepaid phone brand. The city’s lawsuit says dozens of stores sold used phones to customers as new, charged fake taxes and unexpected fees and offered financing for phones that resulted in higher-than-expected prices. RELATED: T-Mobile-Sprint merger approved …
Robert De Niro’s film production company has filed a $6 million lawsuit against a former employee for “breaching her fiduciary duties” after being accused of embezzling money and binge-watching Netflix at work, including reportedly watching 55 episodes of Friends in just four days. Chase Robinson, who was made vice-president of production and finance at Canal Productions in 2017, left the …
Starbucks accused of exposing New York City customers to toxic pesticideOne of two lawsuits filed against the coffee company states that Starbucks stores “have for many years been permeated with a toxic pesticide.”
Conservative foreign affairs critic Peter Kent penned a scathing op-ed in the Wall Street Journal he says in order to educate the American public about the Omar Khadr case, while also blasting the federal government’s decision to issue an apology and a reported $10.5-million settlement to the former child soldier and Guantanamo Bay detainee. In the piece titled “A terrorist’s big payday, …
Indiana University settles lawsuit over sexual assault case File photo BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A federal lawsuit filed by a Maryland woman against Indiana University has been dismissed after a financial settlement was reached. In her lawsuit, the woman alleged she was raped by a student who had been allowed to remain at the school after being accused of sexually assaulting someone else two years …
New details were released in the case of a woman who was allegedly killed by an Orlando apartment building security guard. The new information is outlined in a new lawsuit. WESH 2’s Summer Knowles reports on who Sasha Samsudean’s parents are blaming for her death.
In court testimony on Friday, a Labor Department (DoL) official accused Google of “systemic compensation disparities against women,” as part of an ongoing federal probe of the company. DoL Regional Director Janette Wipper testified that,“We found systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,” according to a report by the Guardian. Another DoL official …
The Columbia University student accused of raping “mattress girl” Emma Sulkowicz lost his second attempt at suing the university for discrimination — and this time the judge told him not to come back. On Friday, Manhattan federal judge Gregory Woods tossed Paul Nungesser’s latest lawsuit, which seeks to hold the Ivy League school responsible for the backlash and humiliation he suffered from …