Federal Judge to Reconsider Lawsuit Woman Filed Against Police After Deadly Rampage Mar 2, 20172:20 PM EST A U.S. Appeals Court is ordering a federal judge in Bangor to reconsider whether the rights of a woman from Benedicta were violated when state police contacted her ex-boyfriend. She claims that phone call set off Anthony Lord, sparking a violent rampage. Lord is accused of shooting five …
Executives and managers at Sterling Jewelers the parent company of Kay Jewelers and Jared the Galleria of Jewelry are accused of creating a work environment in which sexual harassment and discrimination against women went nearly unchecked. That’s according to 1,300 pages of sworn testimony from current and former employees released Sunday and obtained by The Washington Post. The …
The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency on Thursday agreed to a series of broad policy reforms as it settled a federal lawsuit stemming from the state’s past reliance on an automated computer system that made more than 20,000 false fraud claims against residents over a nearly two-year span. U.S. District Court Judge Robert H. Cleland signed an order …
Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency has settled a lawsuit in which it was sued for using an automated computer system that falsely accused thousands of people of fraud. The suit was dismissed Thursday by U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland under an agreement …
Former CNN producer Stanley Wilson’s racial discrimination lawsuit against CNN may proceed after a California appellate court reversed a lower court’s ruling on Tuesday. The 51-year-old Wilson, who is black, originally filed suit against CNN in 2014, alleging that the company discriminated against him on the basis of race over his 17-year-career at the network. As …
Former NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel has been accused of breaking an Austin bar employee’s nose in a September altercation, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday. According to the lawsuit, the bar employee is seeking anywhere from $200,000 to $1 million in damages. After demanding drinks from the employee, Manziel reportedly punched the him in the nose and left the bar.
A lawsuit against William Paterson University over how it handled the case of five students accused raping another student can go forward, a federal judge ruled. A Passaic County grand jury in January 2015 declined to indict the five men, all 18-year-old freshmen at the time, on charges filed by campus police alleging they sexually assaulted and kidnapped another student. Two of the students, …
After an election, a president-elect has an enormous amount of work to do. The period between Election Day and Inauguration Day flies by, and an incoming leader has to assemble a team, receive policy briefings, put an agenda in place, and attend a seemingly endless stream of meetings. In Donald Trump’s case, there’s another part of his upcoming schedule that most presidents-elect don’t have to …
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado said Thursday it has reached a settlement in a lawsuit against two Trinidad detectives accused of bad policing. The City of Trinidad agreed to pay $375,000 to two women who were wrongly arrested and prosecuted during a 2013 drug sting, the ACLU announced. The lawsuit, filed in January 2015 in federal district court in Denver, accused Trinidad …
Bank of America Corp. and a former managing director agreed to settle a lawsuit in which she accused the institution of being a “bros club” that favored male employees. Terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed in a Wednesday filing in Manhattan federal court. Megan Messina had been offered $500,000 to settle, according to an earlier filing.