A $375 million settlement will end the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant’s 26-year legal battle with thousands of Colorado homeowners, if approved by a federal judge. About 15,000 land- and homeowners in the Westminster and Arvada area will get damages from Dow Chemical Co. and Rockwell International Corp., co-owners of the Rocky Flats plant that made triggers for nuclear warheads …
A Superior Court judge has allowed a lawsuit against the state to proceed on grounds that conditions at troubled Bridgewater State Hospital may violate the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, a ruling that underscores the controversial use of seclusion and restraints at the facility. The lawsuit, filed by the families of three former Bridgewater patients, claims that officials discriminate …
A federal class action lawsuit says the City of Naples used an unwritten policy of targeting older female workers for termination when the city discriminated against and fired three veteran female employees. The Naples Daily News reports Susan Fabbrini, Karen Kateley and Jill Orstad claim they were victims of a years-old practice at the city to fire …
Timothy Vande Hey’s lawsuit against his former employer, the state of Minnesota, features lurid allegations of sexual harassment by a deputy Commerce commissioner. Yet that’s not what Vande Hey considers his most serious issue. That involves being told to destroy public records in violation of state law, for the purpose of making the Department of Commerce look good, he said.
Black troopers say they’ve faced retaliation after winning lawsuit against department struggling with diversity Buy Photo Michigan State Trooper Darzeil Hall assists at the scene of an accident on the Southfield Freeway in Detroit n April 2013. (Photo: Kathleen Galligan, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo In 2013, two black Michigan State Police troopers won a high-profile lawsuit against their …
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has sued the U.S. government and the Justice Department, asking federal courts to clarify a controversial new state law that limits transgender access to bathrooms. The Justice Department in turn filed its own lawsuit against the state, saying the law restricting use of …
The Westchester County Department of Health has asked to be dropped from a lawsuit brought by a property owner who accuses it and several other defendants of botching contamination cleanup decades ago …
The City of Omaha will settle a lawsuit alleging excessive force and warrant-less search and seizure. If approved by the City Council, the family of Sharee Johnson would receive $30,000 for the judgment entered against the city and an additional $60,000 for attorney fees, expenses, and costs. The lawsuit stems from an incident near 33rd and Seward in …
The city’s legal department says it needs more money if it’s going to fight the lawsuit between it and the companies involved in building Freedom Point at Liberty Park. In 2014, the stones that lead from Freedom Point to the water began to settle and separate, leaving …
A federal judge cleared the way Wednesday for lawyers from a right-wing watch-dog group to take sworn testimony from top Hillary Clinton aides and opened the door for the group to seek an interview with Clinton herself later. But while the ruling is another political blow for the Clinton campaign, legally the former Secretary of State can thank one of her predecessors, Henry Kissinger, and …