Louisville is taking aim at the nation’s largest drug distributors by filing a new lawsuit demanding that they pay for the city’s overdose epidemic. Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell knows all about the horrors of that epidemic — not just as a city official, but as a dad. “This is an insidious monster,” he said.
Fort Worth could be the latest city to join a lawsuit against the state’s so-called “Sanctuary Cities Ban”, which takes effect Sept. 1. The City Council will discuss the matter during their meeting Tuesday night. Also known as Senate Bill 4, the law requires local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration authorities and bars cities and counties from adopting policies that prevent …
FLINT, Mich. – Flint Mayor Karen Weaver scored a big victory in a Detroit courtroom this morning. Her attorney Kendall Williams says a U-S district court judge threw out a lawsuit filed against the mayor and the city by former city administrator Natasha Henderson. Henderson filed a motion that included claims involving the Whistleblower Act, retaliation and defamation, but the judge said there …
The ACLU of Texas announced Monday that it has filed a lawsuit on behalf of three homeless Houston residents asking a federal judge to halt the city’s new ordinances limiting panhandling and camping in public. City Council passed the two ordinances last month. The encampment rule forbids tents or other structures for living in public areas and requires that all of a person’s belongings fit into a three-foot cube; it took effect Friday. …
The city just unleashed its biggest ever crackdown on a landlord illegally using Airbnb. Lower East Side building owner Rose King has been slammed with a $1.2 million lawsuit by city lawyers alleging she illegally rented a slew of units in three buildings through the short-term rental service. King has been hiding behind a middle man and at least nine aliases to create a network of transient …
Three years after Kansas City settled claims that it had failed to pay certain overtime wages, Fire Department medical staff are back in court saying the city is circumventing the court’s ruling. A lawsuit filed Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court on behalf of certain emergency medical technicians and paramedics says the city has lowered some pay scales — so that the plaintiffs continue to …
Hustler Hollywood’s plans to develop a boutique to sell merchandise and materials carrying the adult magazine’s brand are back on track after a settlement of the company’s federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Fresno. The city agreed to pay $15,000 to Hustler Hollywood for the company’s attorney fees. The two sides reached the settlement in U.S. District Court on the company’s plans …
More than 70 percent of Airbnb’s short-term rental listings in San Francisco could soon be purged off the site following a settlement between the home-sharing company and its hometown. Airbnb sued San Francisco in June to block the city from enacting tougher regulations that would slap home-sharing companies with pricey fines and possible criminal penalties if they post rental listings that …
A federal judge has certified the lawsuit against the City of Denver over homeless camp sweeps as class action. In March of last year, city officials were fed up with the personal items filling the street on the corners of Park Avenue West and Lawrence Street, outside the Denver Rescue Mission. City workers wound up clearing out the items after multiple warnings.
Hundreds of Uber drivers in South Jersey are suing the Atlantic City Yellow Cab Co., alleging taxi drivers have been fraudulently posing as drivers working for the rideshare service to steal their customers. United Drivers South Jersey — a rideshare drivers group that serves South Jersey, Atlantic City and Philadelphia areas — filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday in Atlantic …