A Montgomery County judge has thrown out claims against former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley that were filed by ex-bodyman and confidante Ray Lewis in an unlawful termination lawsuit. Circuit Judge Truman M. Hobbs ruled that Bentley is protected by state immunity because he was acting in his official capacity when Lewis claims he was forced to retire.
Judicial Watch asked a federal court for additional discovery over the Clinton email issue. In addition to document requests, the new Revised Discovery Proposal asks for depositions from Clinton, Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and eight other State Department …
When the National Football League and retired players settled a class-action lawsuit about brain damage in 2015, the agreement raised as many questions as it answered. The $1 billion question: What did the league know? Because the settlement was reached without the evidence-gathering process known as discovery, the NFL did not have to reveal what it knew about the long-term effects of repeated …
The plaintiffs and the defendants in the ongoing Sandy Hook Elementary School gun lawsuit continue to pursue their respective, but divergent, legal goals in the state Superior Court case. The plaintiffs want to obtain detailed information from the defendants about the marketing of the semiautomatic rifle that a gunman used to kill 20 first graders and six educators at the school in …
Parties in a class-action lawsuit alleging discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender (GBT) inmates at West Valley Detention Center appear open to resolving the case independently or through formal mediation, yet first must wrap up a weighty discovery effort. The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, along with a Los Angeles-based law firm, filed the …