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Lawsuit Against Daily Stormer Is Stuck; Founder Can’t Be Served Papers

A Jewish real estate agent’s anti-harassment lawsuit against the owner of the racist Daily Stormer website hasn’t progressed at all, despite being filed nearly four months ago. The reason for the stall, the plaintiff’s lawyers say, is that Daily Stormer publisher Andrew Anglin simply can’t be found. They’ve tried, but failed, to serve him papers at four different Ohio addresses.


Daily Mail Pays Melania Trump $2.9 Million to Settle Lawsuit

The Daily Mail has apologized to Melania Trump and agreed to pay damages to settle a lawsuit filed by the first lady after the publisher made false claims about her work as a professional model. The settlement was announced in a joint statement from the Daily Mail and Trump’s lawyers. “We accept that these allegations about Mrs. Trump are not true and …


Trump’s New Adviser Hired White Men to Attack Blacks Inside His Clubs

Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images Donald Trump’s newest staff pick is a lot like the rest of them. According to news reports and lawsuits, Reed Cordish, Trump’s incoming White House adviser, hired white men to start trouble with black patrons of his family’s properties so that they could kick them out. According to a scathing report in the Daily Beast , Cordish, who was picked to be an assistant …


CNN Spends Election Cycle Calling Trump Supporters Racist, Then Gets Hit With Class Action Racism Suit

After months of calling Trump supporters racist, CNN now faces a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit alleging racism from their own black employees. Odd, considering how vigorously CNN leveled those same charges before and after the election. CNN host Van Jones called the election of Trump a “whitelash” against a black president, while a CNN contributor accused Trump of “a lack of …


LADWP Accidentally Overcharged Its Customers by at Least $67.5 Million

On Friday evening, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge issued preliminary approval to a proposed class-action settlement for customers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) who were overcharged at least $67.5 million following the introduction of a new billing system in September of 2013, …


Woman Wrongly Classified as Man by Fla. Jailers Files $5M Lawsuit

A Dominican woman wrongly classified as a man and held with male inmates for 10 hours in a Miami prison three years ago has filed a civil rights lawsuit. Fior Pichardo de Veloz was arrested at a Miami airport in November of 2013 on what lawyers say was a decades-old drug charge that was eventually dismissed. She was initially booked as a female but medical staff reclassified her as a male …


USA Freedom Kids File a Lawsuit Against the Trump Campaign, Claim They Were Stiffed on Expenses

It’s hard to forget the USA Freedom Kids who performed a memorable skit that was mesmerizing and more than a little strange. The girls went viral, with the link below accumulating more than six million views. Apparently the Trump campaign was supposed to reimburse the kid’s group for their travel and other associated fees, but the Trump camp backed out, stiffing the girls and their parents.


Melania Trump Slaps ‘Daily Mail’ With $150 Million Libel Lawsuit Over Escort Claims

Melania Trump is bringing a $150 million libel lawsuit against Daily Mail after the website published an article seemingly linking her to dubious allegations of running and working for an escort service both in New York City and her native Slovenia. Although the article merely pointed to the allegations others had already made, Ms. Trump still believed it went too far. And Melania Trump is now …


Melania Trump Threatens Lawsuit Against Daily Mail Over ‘False and Defamatory’ Escort Claims

A lawyer representing Melania Trump, the wife of Republican nominee Donald Trump, said Monday that a recent Daily Mail report included “false and defamatory statements” that she worked for an escort service two decades ago. The Daily Mail, a British newspaper with a massive global online presence, published an article Friday examining whether Melania Trump began working a model in the United …


Missouri Attorney General Backs Professor in Lawsuit

The Missouri Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the University of Missouri Board of Curators in support of a university law professor’s challenge to the campus firearms ban. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Boone County, Andrew Hirth, deputy general counsel for Attorney General Chris Koster, wrote that the campus ban on guns conflicts with state law.