The number of residents suing the city for what they claim are unconstitutional municipal fines policies has grown to six as the lawyers seek class action status that could potentially include 5 to 6 thousand plaintiffs. Attorneys for the plaintiffs have stated an interest in resolving the case before it potentially expands its scope dramatically. “There is no reason the city of Amarillo can’t …
More people join a class action lawsuit against the City of Amarillo. Four new plaintiffs were added to the suit earlier this month. The lawsuit alleges the city unconstitutionally jails people who can’t afford to pay class “c” misdemeanors.
The City of Saint John has paid $446,000 to a private investigation firm working on the Kenneth Estabrooks case and taxpayers could be exposed to millions more in compensation settlements, according to a lawyer working for alleged victims. Estabrooks was a city police officer who was found guilty in 1999 of indecent assault against four children in cases dating back to the 1950s. In October …
The federal complaint filed last September alleged civil rights violations and sought class action status, as well as federal oversight of use of force by the Philadelphia Police Department. In a 20-page order, District Court Judge Stewart Dalzell dismissed several of the allegations in the complaint, including those related to the class action. However, he …
A Monroe law firm has filed a lawsuit in state district court in Jefferson Parish seeking class-action status against the city of Gretna and Arizona-based Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. The suit claims the city’s use of an automated camera system to issue traffic tickets and the hearings at which cited motorists can challenge their tickets are both illegal. The Hudson Potts & Bernstein firm filed …
Another major non-profit agency has opted-out of a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit filed against the City of Windsor and Town of Tecumseh. Officials with Brentwood Recovery Home made the decision Tuesday night. Both municipalities launched a campaign urging charities to opt out of the lawsuit, one the city says will cost tax payers an estimated $70-million.
A who’s who of area charities – 855 of them – are named as plaintiffs in the $80-million bingo class-action lawsuit against Windsor and Tecumseh. It’s a list of every single group that ever took out a bingo licence over two decades. Some — like the group Friends of Chris Lori, the former bobsled driver who hasn’t competed since the late 1990s — don’t even exist anymore.
A federal judge may have dealt a serious blow to people suing over the Flint water crisis. U.S. District judge John Corbett O’Meara dismissed the class-action suit after finding the claims made by Flint residents couldn’t be resolved in federal court. At issue are claims made by the plaintiffs in the case that their constitutional rights and state law were…
Violence has become a routine part of life for many students in New York City schools. There’s ample data to prove it, but even more powerful are the stories of the students affected by this epidemic of violence — the 8-year-old boy who stabbed his ear with a pencil to block out his peers’ taunts, the 11-year-old girl who eats lunch in the bathroom to avoid her longtime bully and the 13-year-…
One of the largest charities in Windsor is opting out of the multi-million-dollar class-action bingo lawsuits filed against the city. Brentwood Recovery Home’s board of directors has decided not to be part of the suits. Launched by the ALS Society of Essex County and Belle River District Minor Hockey Association, the lawsuits allege Windsor and Tecumseh charged excessive fees for bingo licences.