A recently unsealed federal lawsuit alleges that Paramedics Plus, the parent company of the Sunstar Paramedics ambulance company, engaged in an illegal kickback scheme involving Pinellas County EMS and millions of dollars in “false claims” against Medicare and Medicaid. Craig Hare, Director of EMS and Fire Administration in Pinellas County, has deferred all …
A settlement agreement has been reached, but neither the victim nor the church she said failed to report her sexual abuse to the authorities can talk about it. On the fifth day of trial Monday in Philadelphia County Court, Stephanie Fessler, of Lancaster, settled the suit she filed against the Jehovah’s Witness Church in Spring Grove. “The matter with the Jehovah’s Witnesses has …
A schoolbus travels down N.C. Highway 58 as it crosses into Trenton, N.C., Monday, March 1, 1999. (Photo: Jom Gardiner, Associated Press) 18387 CONNECTTWEET5 LINKEDIN37 COMMENTEMAILMORE In a bid to create a better chance for black residents of rural areas to get elected to local office, a team of civil rights and private lawyers has filed what one prominent civil rights organization calls the …
New developments in the rape kit testing class action lawsuit against the City of Memphis. Kits that have been sitting untested for years. The victims will be able to go forward against the City of Memphis.
Illinois (WIBQ) – A group of social service providers and businesses are trying new legal maneuvers in a bid to get overdue state funds. The Pay Now Illinois coalition paid a visit to St. Clair County Court in Belleville to file another lawsuit against the state. They previously filed a similar lawsuit in Cook County.
A group of agencies and businesses that provides services to state government has opened a second front in the legal fight to get Illinois to pay billions in back-due bills. The Pay Now Illinois coalition filed a lawsuit in St. Clair County on Thursday demanding state officials pay bills dating to July. An $11 billion pile of overdue bills has grown with a nearly two-year long budget stalemate.
Two women have been awarded $11.5 million in a federal lawsuit. One of the women sat down with Fox 9. On Friday, a jury in Madison, Wisconsin, found that both former Polk County jailer Darryl Christensen and Polk County were responsible for sexual assaults of two inmates. Former inmate Melinda Juleen said the assaults happened 50-75 times while she was in jail. …
Fountain Creek and its tributaries were degraded, eroded and widened, and those waters combined with surface runoff to create excessive sedimentation and substandard water quality, audits by the Environmental Protection Agency found in 2013 and 2015. The city’s failures since 2009 violated its federal storm sewer system permit, the EPA reported, with the Department of Justice filing the lawsuit …
A Washington County woman claims that her ex-husband, a deputy sheriff, got her jailed for a critical Facebook post. In a lawsuit filed last month in U.S. District Court, Anne King claims that she asked Deputy Corey King in January 2015 to pick up medicine for their sick child. Her ex-husband refused, she said, claiming he was too busy.
According to documents from Craig Goodmark, attorney for the plaintiffs in the case, current Floyd County educator Ronda Ware, the Floyd County Association of Educators and the Georgia Association of Educators have filed the suit against Floyd County Schools asking that the Fair Dismissal Act be reinstated. Goodmark filed the lawsuit Friday. “The educators in this case have worked very hard for many years to earn the protections of the Fair Dismissal Act,” Goodmark said …