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Rocky Flats Lawsuit Settlement May Award $12,000 to Neighbors

At least 13,000 and possibly as many as 15,000 residents living near the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant may be entitled to approximately $12,000 each. It’s part of a class action lawsuit filed 26 years ago against Dow Chemical and Rockwell International. Those entitled to money must have owned property near the former site as of June 7, 1989.


N.C. Governor Won’t Use Disaster Funds for ‘bathroom Bill’ Lawsuit

In this May 4, 2016 file photo, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory make remarks concerning House Bill 2 while speaking during a government affairs conference in Raleigh, N.C. McCrory has taken a beating from critics over a law dictating which restrooms transgender people can use, highlighting what they call the economic harm and reputation it’s causing North Carolina. McCrory is retrying to …




Tensions Boil Over Birmingham Water Works Board Lawsuit

Lawsuit filed against Mayor William Bell and other entities by the Birmingham Water Works Board. The mayor of Birmingham is being sued over a power struggle between city leaders and the Water Works Board. The lawsuit says it was filed on behalf of the Birmingham Water Works Board, but one member asked how that can be when she didn’t even know that the lawsuit existed, much less than it was filed.


Sanders Drops Lawsuit Against DNC

The move came Friday after an independent investigation into Democratic presidential campaigns’ handling of party voter data. “An independent investigation of the firewall failures in the DNC’s shared voter file database has definitively confirmed that the original claims by the DNC and the Clinton campaign were wholly inaccurate,” the campaign …


Victims to File Class-Action Lawsuit Against Humidifier Sterilizer Producers, Gov’t

A group of people affected by toxic humidifier sterilizers plan to file a class-action lawsuit next month against the manufacturers, distributors and the government. The group of plaintiffs, the Asian Citizen’s Center for Environment and Health, and Lawyers for a Democratic Society or Minbyun held a news conference on Tuesday in southern Seoul to announce the plan. Minbyun lawyers who will …


Taxi Drivers Want to Ban Uber in Quebec

Taxi drivers and owners from across Quebec are planning to file an injunction to ban Uber in the province. Members of the Regroupement des travailleurs autonomes Métallos, which represents 4,000 taxi drivers and owners, met for their general assembly in Montreal on Sunday. They discussed an action plan for fighting against the rise and what they say is unfair competition from the popular ride- …