Buy Photo Rochester’s Douglass-Anthony Memorial Bridge, with the city skyline. (Photo: Democrat and Chronicle file photo)Buy Photo Taxpayers could be on the hook for $2 million to help the downtown convention center settle a lawsuit in which banquet staffers claimed they never got a cut of a service charge billed to customers. The city and its Rochester Convention Center Management Corp., a …
A federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit filed against the state of Utah on behalf of several mentally ill prison inmates. The Disability Law Center is suing the state on behalf of three inmates in Utah jails, alleging that they’re being held unconstitutionally while they wait to get treatment at the Utah State Hospital. Aaron Kinikini is the center’s legal director.
A Valley Center teacher is suing the district, citing breach of contract after she was terminated without due process earlier this year. Janet Decker, who worked as a gifted-program coordinator at Valley Center High School and Valley Center Middle School for 16 years, was issued a notice in April that her contract would not be renewed for the current school year, according to a lawsuit filed …
News Report | September 18, 2016 On August 6, 2016, the Delaware Department of Correction (DOC) agreed to a settlement calling for improvement in how the DOC handles solitary confinement of offenders with mental illness. Specifically, the DOC significantly limit the length of time that can be served in disciplinary housing at all DOC prisons. Further, the agreement includes language to support …
SiliconBeat reports Google has agreed to pay a $5.5 million settlement in a class-action suit that resulted from cookie placement that worked around Apple Safari do-not-track settings. The lawsuit suggested Google collected the user data to boost ad revenue. “Behaviorally targeted advertisements based on a user’s tracked internet activity generally sell for at least twice as much as non- …
An anti-abortion group has filed a federal lawsuit against the city after the Raleigh City Council rejected a rezoning request that would have allowed the organization to provide counseling and classes in its property next to an abortion clinic. A Hand of Hope Pregnancy Resource Center filed the lawsuit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, which …
Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Washington and pro-life activist David Daleiden to halt the release of public documents. Mr. Daleiden, who spearheaded the undercover Center for Medical Progress video series, made a public records request in February for documents detailing transactions between the university’s Birth Defects Research Center and Planned …
Robert Taylor insists he’s a good guy, but says the state of Virginia has treated him like a bad one ever since he got buried under a pile of unpaid traffic tickets, fees and fines. The 28-year-old Richmond man spends weekends in jail, can’t hold a job and does not know how he will ever pay off the nearly $5,000 he owes the state. “I’m not a criminal in any sense of the word,” Robert Taylor …
In 2012, journalist Marie Colvin—renowned for her brave, humanizing reporting in high-conflict areas—was killed in Syria during a rocket strike. Four years later, her family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Syrian government led by Bashar al-Assad, who they say deliberately targeted her in an effort to silence coverage of the war. The complaint—filed in D.C. on Saturday by the …
Lane Community College is being sued by a former instructor who says he was fired in a retaliatory move after reporting alleged ethical violations involving a colleague. Frank Plaisted is seeking $200,000 in compensatory damages. He filed the lawsuit June 16 in Lane County Circuit Court.