Saying he was treated as a “virtual sex slave” by a Michigan Department of Corrections counselor, a former inmate has filed a lawsuit against the department and the social worker, the mother of his 1-year-old child. Steven Moerman, 44, accuses Susan Clingerman of raping him on a weekly basis, intentionally inflicting emotional …
The Justice Department filed a brief Monday supporting a class-action lawsuit that claims Virginia suspends poor people’s driver’s licenses in an “unconstitutional scheme,” court documents show. In July, the class-action lawsuit, Stinnie et al. v. Holcomb , was filed in U.S. District Court in Western Virginia against the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, claiming 940,000 people …
A federal magistrate has set a Dec. 4, 2017, hearing for the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Antwun “Ronnie” Shumpert. Shumpert’s family filed the $35 million lawsuit after he was shot and killed June 18 by Tupelo police officer Tyler Cook.
An inmate who gave birth inside a cell at the Tennessee Prison for Women has filed suit, alleging nurses and a doctor “alternately ignored and only occasionally checked on” the pregnant woman during four hours of labor. (Photo: Getty Images ) The family of a man who died after falling ill in a West Tennessee prison has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against Centurion, the private …
Two class-action lawsuits have been filed by area law firms on behalf of residents against firefighting foam manufacturers due to water contamination in the Horsham and Warminster areas. Norristown-based Creedon and Feliciani, along with Philadelphia-based Levin, Fishbein, Sedran, & Berman have announced that the suits will be filed on behalf of 14 residents of Montgomery and Bucks counties …
Supporters of an East African advocacy group that has filed a “crimes against humanity” lawsuit against anti-homosexuality evangelist pastor Scott Lively gathered in front of the federal courthouse Wednesday morning Dozens of supporters, including 16 Ugandans, some of whom traveled from their country to be present here today, demonstrated outside in advance of a hearing later …
The Washington Legal Foundation is among those groups calling on a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court’s decision that, they argue, would undermine class-wide settlements by permitting plaintiff states to file copycat lawsuits despite benefiting from a settlement. The D.C.-based public interest law firm, which regularly advocates against excessive …
A Baton Rouge Police officer who was seriously injured during a protest has filed a lawsuit against the national Black Lives Matter movement. FILE – In this Saturday, July 9, 2016, file photo, police officers arrest activist DeRay McKesson during a protest along Airline Highway, a major road that passes in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters in …
Don’t offer prison inmate John Demos your Hershey Bar, your Kellogg’s corn flakes or your Bazooka bubble gum. And he doesn’t think your Campbell soup Is mmmm-mmmm good. The Washington state inmate filed a lawsuit in Macon’s federal court this week, arguing that those companies and several others gave him bladder and intestine problems. Also named in the lawsuit are …
The Woodhaven Care Center in Monroeville promises families that a large, accommodating staff will see to the grooming and medical needs of their loved ones. But when retired steelworker Reggie Hickman’s wife, Catherine, became a resident there after suffering a stroke, he says she just languished in bed. “She never got the proper care that she she should have had, being …