A civil lawsuit is accusing two current student athletes at Buchanan High School in Clovis of sexual assault. It’s a case Eyewitness news has been following for a couple of weeks now, after discovering the lawsuit against the two students and their parents. The 16 year old girl who reported the assault last summer is from out of town.
A federal lawsuit aims to get enough votes counted to place the issue of recreational marijuana use on the November 2016 ballot. File photo Two people who signed and circulated petitions for Michigan’s recreational marijuana vote have filed a federal lawsuit meant to stop the printing of November ballots until the signatures are counted. They argue Michigan voters should decide marijuana …
A much-anticipated TCPA class action trial was set to begin next week in Birchmeier et al. v. Caribbean Cruise Line Inc., et al., in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. According to published reports, however, a class-wide settlement was reached yesterday in this protracted litigation with a history of controversial rulings by the …
Statements of defence from both deny blame over faulty hair tests used in court to remove children from their parents. He rejects the findings of an independent review led by retired Court of Appeal Justice Susan Lang last year, which harshly criticized hair testing procedures at Motherisk. “The hair testing methodologies employed by (Motherisk) were, at all material times, accurate and …
The lawsuit asks the judiciary to fix the state’s “inequitable” education funding system. The court will hear oral arguments in the case Tuesday in Philadelphia. Badams and a small contingent from Erie plan to be in the courtroom or in an overflow area provided for the public.
Maricopa County elections officials satisfied concerns from Democrats that there will be enough polling locations for the Nov. 8 election, leading to a settlement on one part of a federal lawsuit stemming from March’s presidential preference election. The settlement was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix. Arizona minority voters, along with state and national Democratic Party …
With early voting in Minnesota starting in less than two weeks, Secretary of State Steve Simon is urging the state Supreme Court to decide a D-F-L lawsuit by Monday. That suit seeks to block Donald Trump from Minnesota’s presidential ballot. Republicans call it “a blatant and frivolous attempt to disenfranchise voters.”
The DFL is asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to strip Trump’s name from ballots for the Nov. 8 election, potentially denying Republicans a chance to vote for their presidential nominee, because of the way the Republican Party filed for ballot access. That’s an action opponents and legal observers call extreme, drastic and undemocratic. Meanwhile, the Minnesota secretary of state’s office told …
Hartford officials have reversed their position and now say they won’t pay damages that might be awarded against two city police officers in an upcoming trial over an illegal police search that ended with one of the officers killing a family’s dog. The move means that the officers, Johnmichael O’Hare and Anthony Pia, may be personally liable to pay any jury awards, and …
A federal appeals court on Thursday cast doubt on the legitimacy of a settlement resolving claims that Subway tricked customers by selling “Footlong” subs that were less than a foot long. A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago heard arguments on a challenge by prominent class-action critic Ted Frank, who said the settlement gave too much money to lawyers and no …