The Fort Worth City Council on Tuesday will vote on settling a lawsuit in which it claimed Chesapeake Energy Corporation cheated taxpayers out of millions of dollars in royalties for natural gas it drilled under city land. It is not immediately clear how much the proposed settlement is worth. A notation on the council agenda said the terms will be made public but did not specify when.
A federal class action lawsuit says the City of Naples used an unwritten policy of targeting older female workers for termination when the city discriminated against and fired three veteran female employees. The Naples Daily News reports Susan Fabbrini, Karen Kateley and Jill Orstad claim they were victims of a years-old practice at the city to fire …
The list of people suing the city over new camping policies is growing. In a motion filed today, a group of organizations that believe Mayor Charlie Hales’ lenient stance on camping is illegal say they’ve found three new plaintiffs to sign onto a lawsuit filed last month. They are the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association (ORLA), the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties …
The ACLU Foundation of Southern California has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the Victor Valley Family Resource Center against the city of Hesperia and San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon. The nonprofit VVFRC, which is led by founder and CEO Sharon Green, is challenging Hesperia’s attempts to “unlawfully restrict” housing and support services for “individuals with …
The trial started today in federal court for the Pittsburgh Police officer who is suing the city, claiming her civil rights were violated. In 2013, Officer Tonya Montgomery-Ford was suspended with pay. It was one day after former Pittsburgh Police chief Nate Harper resigned as the FBI investigated possible corruption in the police bureau.
Lawsuit claims former city administrator requested an investigation in to an allegation of water charity funds being directed to mayor’s campaign Buy Photo Then-City of Flint administrator Natasha Henderson addresses Flint City Council about the amount of money proposed to be reimbursed to Flint residents crediting their water bills during the Flint water crisis on Monday Feb. 8, 2016, at Flint …
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the city of Bremerton, alleging that its blue parking signs violate state and federal law. By Josh Farley of the Kitsap Sun May 06, 201617 BREMERTON — A Kitsap County judge Friday cleared the way for a class-action lawsuit over the legality of downtown Bremerton’s navy blue street signs. Lawyers for George Karl and …
Henderson was hired in 2014 as the city’s administrator, the highest ranking unelected post in the city. Three days after Henderson reported the alleged violation to the city’s chief legal counsel, she was fired. The suit claims that Mayor Weaver told Henderson that the state no longer had the budget to fund her position; Henderson informed her the city …
The developers of a Jersey City residential building that was forced in 2012 to hand over seven condos to the city for use as affordable housing is suing the city in federal court, alleging city officials now want to sell the condos for profit. Joseph and Neil Sorrentino are seeking $10 million from the city, saying it “fraudulently, willfully and wrongfully misrepresented” in various trials …
The Latest on the settlement in a lawsuit filed by the family of a black man fatally shot in 2010 after two off-duty Little Rock police officers entered his home without a warrant (all times local): 4 p.m. An attorney for the family of a black man fatally shot by Little Rock police in 2010 says the roughly $1.5 million settlement in the family’s lawsuit marks the largest settlement in the …