After two years of legal back-and-forth, a Columbia student will be allowed to sue the University, which he claims violated his Title IX rights in an adjudication process that found him responsible for sexual assault. The student, identified by the pseudonym “John Doe,” initially filed a lawsuit against the University in the spring of 2014. But after a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit …
Yakima Valley farm workers involved in a class-action lawsuit since 2012 against a management company for wrongful firing will receive their settlement payments Sunday according to a news release from Columbia Legal Services. NW Management and several other companies agreed to a settlement payment after several years of litigation according to the news release. Columbia …
The suit was filed Thursday by Barbara Ellington, the last surviving daughter of Dorothy Carpenter, the lone resident who died in the fire. Ellington’s lawsuit is the first to claim negligence by Columbia County as well as individual employees, including the county’s fire marshal Brian Clark, battalion chief Jimmie Paschal, special operations chief Danny Kuhlmann, Capt. Gary Griffith and Lt. …
A Columbia bar has been accused of serving so much alcohol to one of its underage patrons that he became extremely intoxicated and crashed his motorcycle, killing a 19-year-old woman who was riding with him. The State of Columbia reported Saturday that the father of crash victim Caitlin Clark has filed a lawsuit against the Tin Roof bar. The …