In Flint, Michigan, the ACLU has filed a class action lawsuit arguing the public school system has not done enough to provide children exposed to lead with sufficient educational services. Flint’s lead poisoning began when an unelected emergency manager appointed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder switched the source of the city’s …
The city of Trinidad has agreed to pay $775,000 to settle two federal lawsuits alleging police arrested innocent people on drug charges because they relied on wrong and misleading information from an unreliable confidential informant, lawyers said. The ACLU of Colorado, which filed a lawsuit in January 2015 on behalf of two women, announced the terms of one settlement on Thursday. Danika …
A local lawyer who told people they could legally grow marijuana despite a federal law saying the opposite now faces a lawsuit accusing him of profiting off crimes. Ian Christensen’s law firm told couples like the Yandells that if they medically needed marijuana, he could get them a doctor’s certificate that would protect them from arrest, according to Scott and Marsha Yandell’s lawsuit. After …
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a $450,000 settlement of a lawsuit by USC students who alleged that LAPD officers in riot gear used excessive force and falsely arrested attendees at a predominantly black off-campus student party. The six students who sued over the raid during the early hours of May 4, 2013, accused Los Angeles police of racial bias because they allowed a …
In April, 50-year-old Rory Moroney was arrested at Long Beach’s Recreation Park. One officer involved—an undercover cop who posed as an amorous stranger— claimed that Moroney was masturbating and exposing himself in public. Moroney, on the other hand, said that he was simply …
Five protesters were arrested after blockading a petcoke storage facility on Chicago’s Southeast Side last year. Petcoke handlers on Chicago’s Southeast Side have agreed to pay more than $1.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit after residents were exposed to clouds of the dust. Five protesters were arrested after blockading a petcoke storage facility on Chicago’s Southeast Side last year.
A Yucca Valley businesswoman is suing San Bernardino County and a sheriff’s deputy over her arrest and incarceration in December 2014. Lucinda Cox filed her lawsuit in February in federal court in Riverside, alleging that she was arrested on charges that were not thoroughly investigated and jailed at West Valley Detention Center for seven days because her bail had been improperly…
More than 1,000 people detained during the chaotic G20 summit almost six years ago won the right Wednesday to go the class-action route in lawsuits against police and others. In approving the class-action process, Ontario’s top court said various reports on the events to date had made only non-binding recommendations. “The remedies sought by the plaintiffs, which include a declaration that …