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Stranger Things Lawsuit Dropped Just Days Before Going to Trial

The 2018 lawsuit that alleged that Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer stole the idea from someone they worked with in the past has been dropped. Director Charlie Kessler, who alleged that the brothers stole his idea for what they later made into Stranger Things, dropped the lawsuit just 48 hours before the trial was scheduled to start on Tuesday. The Duffer brothers always maintained …


Lawsuit Filed Over Sick Leave Policy for New Mexico Teachers

A lawsuit has been filed alleging New Mexico has a policy of penalizing public school teachers in their evaluations if they take more than six days of sick time over the course of the school year, even if their contracts allow for more. The Albuquerque Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2pa1k8F) the lawsuit was filed March 30 on behalf of Logan Municipal Schools teacher …


Tomi Lahren Files Lawsuit Against Glenn Beck and TheBlaze, Alleging Wrongful Termination for Expressing Pro-Choice Views

Conservative firebrand Tomi Lahren filed a lawsuit against Glenn Beck and TheBlaze on Friday, alleging she was wrongfully terminated for recently expressing a pro-choice opinion. The news she was fired, which TheBlaze disputed, was first reported by the Dallas Morning News. During a March 17 appearance on “The View,” Lahren said she could not “sit here and be a hypocrite and say I’m for …


Trump Trying to Use Presidency to Derail Grope Accuser’s Lawsuit

President Trump wants to derail a defamation suit filed by a former contestant on his reality TV show “The Apprentice” by claiming immunity through his job as the nation’s commander-in-chief, according to court papers made public Tuesday. Summer Zervos, who last year accused then-candidate Trump of groping and pressing his privates against her in 2007, sued him three days before his Jan. 20 …


TrueVisions May Face Class-Action Lawsuit

While regulators continue to press TrueVisions to improve compensation to subscribers after cancelling six popular pay-TV channels, some customers have taken to an online “crowd-suing” platform in hopes of pursuing a class-action lawsuit. As of 5pm Saturday, more than 1,000 people had signed up to initiate the …


ACLU Files Lawsuit Against RI Over Food Stamp Benefits

The Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ALCU) announced Friday the details of a lawsuit it’s filed against the state over its new benefits eligibility system. The class action lawsuit claims the state has failed to timely provide benefits to needy families due in part to its troubled transition to the Unified Health Infrastructure Project – …



Five Drivers File $16.5-Million Lawsuit Against Eldora Speedway

Dirt late model driver Scott Bloomquist and four other drivers filed a $16.5-million lawsuit against World Racing Group and subsidiary UMP DIRTcar Racing, Eldora Speedway and track owner Tony Stewart last week, according to a report by Courthouse News Service. The five drivers – Bloomquist, Jimmy Owens, Gregg Satterlee, Brandon Sheppard and Ricky Thornton Jr. – were disqualified after failing a …


Metro Loses Open Records Lawsuit

Judge rules city violated ‘prompt’ statute in Public Records Act In a significant victory for open records proponents across the state, Metro Nashville has lost a lawsuit over the amount of time its police department takes to respond to and fulfill open records requests. The Tennessee Public Records Act states, “The custodian of a public …


Bikini-Related Retaliation Lawsuit Reinstated on Appeal

A federal appeals court has reinstated a retaliation lawsuit filed by a post office employee who was fired after she refused her supervisor’s requests to give him a picture of herself in a bikini. Hillary A. Kacian, a worker at the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, post office, said after she refused requests by her supervisor, George LaRue, to provide the photo, he began …