Nakeyja Cade bathes her three children in bottled water after her 1-year-old daughter Zariyah Cade (center left) had a blood test scoring high in lead content in Flint, Mich. on March 1, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson / The Washington Post) Public officials failed children in Flint, Mich., by allowing the city’s supply of drinking water to remain contaminated with lead, a known neurotoxin, for …
The ACLU of Michigan says it will announce a new class action lawsuit on Tuesday, Oct. 18. It’s being filed on behalf of Flint families impacted by the city’s lead-tainted water. The ACLU released this statement: “All children can learn-but the ongoing water crisis in Flint creates urgent problems for Flint students, parents and teachers,” said Kary Moss, executive …
The death of a 3-year-old Allentown girl who fell from a fourth-story window along with her 5-year-old sister last year has prompted a wrongful death lawsuit. Jessica Tatum, the mother of Tamara and Tiana Arnette, is suing the owners of the apartment building at 702 Turner St., which houses once-homeless families pursuing educational or vocational training. Tamara died shortly after …
In 2014, a legal challenge was mounted against the federal government for its failure to provide legal representation to indigent children in deportation proceedings. The case, F.L.B.. v. Lynch was brought by the American …
Buy Photo Clyde Saiki, Director of Oregon Department of Human Services, meets with the Statesman Journal for an interview on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, in Salem. (Photo: DANIELLE PETERSON / Statesman Journal)Buy Photo 673 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN2 COMMENTEMAILMORE Lawyers representing Oregon foster children have filed a class action lawsuit in federal court asking a judge to end the Oregon …
A new lawsuit by the New York Civil Liberties Union and Legal Services of Central New York is alleging that the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office has been locking up juveniles in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day, and sexually harassing and abusing the children, some of whom are mentally ill. “Any time you send a child to solitary confinement, you risk damaging them permanently,” …
A class-action lawsuit arguing undocumented children should be allowed government-appointed lawyers during deportation proceedings cannot move forward, a federal appeals court in Seattle ruled Tuesday. The three-judge panel was not addressing the claim itself; whether due process and statutory rights of minors are being violated. The decision, given in their written opinion, was based on …
Central American immigrant children are processed at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Nogales, Ariz.Ross D. Franklin/APhide caption Central American immigrant children are processed at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Nogales, Ariz. A federal appeals court panel in Seattle has ruled that immigrant children under the threat of deportation may not sue the …
A federal judge has dismissed the civil rights lawsuit filed against the Mississippi Department of Human Services by a Hancock County woman whose two children may have been sexually abused while in state custody. The plaintiff, Alexandria Faye, filed the suit last year in U.S. District Court in Gulfport. Faye said her two children, then 1 and 2 years old, were sexually abused and contracted …
Two parents filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against Pop Warner Little Scholars, the nation’s largest youth-football organization, alleging that it misled parents about the safety of its program, according to the New York Times. The lawsuit, which also includes USA Football and the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment, or NOCSAE, alleges all three organizations …