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Lawsuit: Teen Expelled for Sitting for Pledge of Allegiance

A lawsuit says a Houston student’s Constitutional rights were violated when she was expelled for not standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Randall Kallinen, an attorney for 17-year-old India Landry’s family, said the civil lawsuit was filed Saturday against the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District and a high school principal. The lawsuit says Landry, who’d been sitting …


Lawsuit Seeks Damages From Boys & Girls Club in Connection to 2015 Varnell Murder-Suicide

The family of a woman and her son who were killed by the boy’s father before he killed himself in April, 2015 is suing the Boys & Girls Club of America (BCGA) and the local chapter Boys & Girls Club of Gordon, Murray & Whitfield Counties (BGCGMW). The lawsuit filed this week in Whitfield County Superior Court claims BGCGMW employees released Grayden Whitmore to the custody of his father, Eric …


Atheist Group, Tennessee Sheriff Settle Easter-Photo Lawsuit for $41,000

An atheist group and a Tennessee sheriff have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over the latter’s Easter-themed message on Facebook this March, the Cleveland [Tenn.] Banner reported on Friday. The plaintiffs will be paid $15,000 in damages and their attorneys will recoup $26,000 in legal fees, paid out by a lawsuit-insurance fund paid into by local taxpayers, the newspaper noted. The …


Court Says A.G.’s Trump University Fraud Lawsuit Can Proceed

Bad news for The Donald on Super Tuesday as court rules N.Y. attorney general’s Trump University fraud lawsuit can proceed Updated: Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 12:30 AM On a day of Super Tuesday wins for Donald Trump, he suffered a loss in New York — a state appeals court gave a green light to a civil fraud claim against the GOP front-runner and his Trump University. In a unanimous ruling, a …


This Man Wants to Upend the World of High-Frequency Trading

When developers at a top U.S. stock exchange needed help debugging a program that puts time stamps on quotes and trades in July, they could have hired a high-profile consulting firm. Instead, they called a customer who runs a company out of a small office in a Chicago suburb who had weeks earlier called the exchange’s dealings with high-frequency trading firms “completely illegal” on Twitter. …