A STUDENT who slept with his teacher and was even in the birthing suite when she delivered their child has been awarded £4 million in damages in California. The former high school student was paid the seven-figure in one of the largest single-victim sex abuse settlements by a public agency after telling the court he felt “physically” ill when reflecting on how his former teacher Laura …
Now, the delaying has been put to a halt, and the plaintiffs are finally about to have their true day in court. On Tuesday, a Superior Court judge will begin hearing arguments in what is known as a summary judgment proceeding. The plaintiffs will attempt to prove that they have enough evidence to forego a trial and prove that Canada had an obligation in law to ensure that indigenous children …
A couple whose two young sons were taken away by the state for several months in 2000 over a doctor’s disputed abuse opinion lost a bid on Monday to reinstate a lawsuit against the state child welfare agency. The state Appellate Court rejected an appeal by former Newtown residents Michele and Craig …
A Jefferson County Jury on Friday night awarded a $16 million verdict to a Mountain Brook couple on claims against Brookwood Medical Center for medical negligence and reckless fraud for the hospital’s natural birth advertising campaign at the time of their child’s birth in 2012. The verdict came in just before 10 p.m. Friday after about 10 hours of deliberations and a two-week trial, said David …
The mother of a little girl arrested at her Murfreesboro elementary school earlier this year has filed a lawsuit against a city police officer. Elexecia Martin is demanding a jury trial after she says Officer Chrystal Templeton violated her daughter’s Fourth Amendment rights. It all began when video surfaced in April of two …
An amended civil complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for Kansas alleges the Kansas Department for Children and Families, as well as other agencies and individuals, are engaged in a “Kids for Cash type unlawful enterprise.” “Private agencies are contracted that the longer they keep the kids, the more funding they get,” said plaintiff Raymond Schwab. “They allegedly, …
An Alabama man died in jail from an untreated ulcer after going a week without food, medical care or even a court appearance, according to a lawsuit. The son of Phillip David Anderson, 49, filed a federal civil rights suit Monday against Tuscaloosa County over Anderson’s February 2015 death. The father of four and U.S. Army veteran went into custody at Tuscaloosa County Jail because of a missed …
The Hennepin County Human Services Department allowed the placement of a foster care child into the home of a Brooklyn Park woman who had a record of substantiated child abuse, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. In December 2014, 6-year old Kendrea Johnson was found dead in that …
Here’s The Lawsuit Against A State Anti-LGBT Law You Aren’t Hearing About by Zack Ford May 10, 2016 1:31 pm CREDIT: AP Photo/Emily Wagster Pettus Jennifer Riley-Collins, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi, introduces the lawsuit, flanked by attorney Oliver Diaz, and plaintiffs Nykolas Alford and Stephen Thomas. North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law HB2 isn’t the …
A 13-year-old boy who was molested by a Palm Springs Unified special education aide has filed a lawsuit accusing the school district of “turning a blind eye” to the sexual abuse, then destroying evidence in an effort to cover up the fact that at least some of the abuse occurred on school property. The lawsuit claims that the school district ignored …