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Justices Tuning in to Cable Television Civil Rights Lawsuit

But while many distributors carry Allen’s channels, two cable giants have refused. But Comcast and Charter Communications, the nation’s two largest cable providers, have passed on carrying Allen’s channels. So do the now-merged AT&T and DirecTV after Allen sued them and they settled. Comcast has noted that Allen originally sued Comcast but also civil rights groups including the NAACP and …


Supreme Court Justices Tuning in to Cable Television Civil Rights Lawsuit

But while many distributors carry Allen’s channels, two cable giants have refused. An appeals court has let his lawsuits go forward, but now the Supreme Court will weigh in and could deliver a setback. A trial court dismissed Allen’s suit three times before an appeals court, according to Comcast, wrongly let it go forward . READ MORE: Black woman uses 153-year old civil rights law to sue PNC …


Million-Dollar Lawsuit Filed in Church Bus Crash

A wrongful death lawsuit seeking at least $1 million in damages has been filed by the son of one of the 13 victims killed March 29 in a fatal head-on collision near Garner State Park. It is the first legal action filed by family members in the wake of the tragedy involving members of the First Baptist Church in New Braunfels who were leaving a retreat in Leakey. Attorney …


Nate Allen Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Fort Myers

NFL player Nate Allen filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Fort Myers on Thursday, nearly two years after his wrongful arrest. Allen, a defensive back with the Oakland Raiders and Cape Coral High graduate, was arrested by the Fort Myers Police Department in February 2015. He was held for five hours after a victim wrongly …


Judge Approves Byron Allen’s $10 Billion Discrimination Lawsuit

Comedian and Entertainment Studios Networks (ESN) CEO Byron Allen (“Comics Unleashed”) scored a legal victory on Monday (October 24) when a federal judge permitted his $10 billion racial discrimination lawsuit against Charter Communications to continue. Deadline reports that federal district court judge George Wu rejected Charter’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by ESN and the National …


One Lawsuit Dismissed, Another Allowed to Proceed in Case of HIV-positive Surgical Tech Who Stole Syringes

Judges have issued competing rulings over the validity of lawsuits filed by patients who fear they may have been infected by a former surgical technologist at Swedish Medical Center who stole painkiller syringes while he was HIV positive. Denver District Court Judge Jay Grant on Thursday dismissed one of the lawsuits because free blood tests offered by Swedish had not found infections among …



Drivers Who Won Red Light Camera Suit Want New Ticket Revenue to Pay $1.8M Award

Drivers who won a $1.8 million class-action suit against a small Ohio town over its use of red light cameras want to collect their damages — straight from the pockets of a new crop of motorists caught by the unpopular and all-seeing digital eyes. Lawyers for thousands of drivers cited in New Miami filed a class-action lawsuit in 2013 against the Butler County town of 2,000 for using an …


Class-Action Settlement Reached in Meningitis Outbreak Suit

A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit involving a Michigan clinic and a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people and sickened more than 750 people in 20 states. The Livingston Daily Press & Argus reports that the deal reached Friday in Livingston County Circuit Court covers 311 patients of Michigan Pain Specialists. Patients of the Genoa …


Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Swedish

Swedish Medical Center (Photo: KUSA file photo) KUSA – Attorneys representing three former patients at Swedish Medical Center filed a federal lawsuit against the hospital and its owner Tuesday alleging negligent hiring practices put thousands of patients at risk. Last month, the hospital told 2,900 patients to get tested for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV after hospital staff caught a …