A lawsuit that was filed against Planned Parenthood claims the organization should have known an attack like the one that happened in Colorado Springs on Black Friday was likely to happen. First close look at Planned Parenthood building since the Black Friday shooting. The lawsuit was filed in Denver District Court on Friday and will be delivered to Planned Parenthood tomorrow, according to …
Attorneys for Gov. Robert Bentley filed a motion in court on Monday asking a judge to dismiss a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by former ALEA Secretary Spencer Collier. Collier, the state’s top law enforcement officer who was fired by Bentley in March, filed his lawsuit against Bentley, Rebekah Caldwell Mason and others in April.
The mental capacity of Sumner Redstone is at the center of yet another lawsuit, this one filed by Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman against Shari Redstone, the billionaire businessman’s daughter. Dauman and longtime Viacom director George Abrams filed a legal complaint in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Probate and Family Court accusing Shari of taking advantage of her 92-year-old father’s mental …
Oregon’s former prisons watchdog has filed a $3 million suit against the state Department of Corrections and its director, saying he was fired in retaliation for raising ethical concerns. As …
A trial begins Monday in a hazing lawsuit that a former Bowie State University student filed against Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. The former student, Kevin Hayes, filed the lawsuit in 2014, saying the fraternity should have made sure its chapters and members followed its anti-hazing rules. The $3 million lawsuit claims Hayes was beaten, body-slammed and spanked with a wooden paddle on a daily …
A lawsuit filed Monday by the New York state attorney general alleges three Domino’s franchisees underpaid workers based on payroll reports, according to a story by the Associated Press. “We’ve uncovered rampant wage violations at Domino’s franchise stores, and intensive involvement by Domino’s headquarters that caused many of these violations,” Attorney General Eric …
Those assurances came at a time when ManorCare was aware of the more than $6 billion in false claims billed by the company, Legal NewsLine reported. That billing fraud resulted in a series of whistleblower allegations against the provider, consolidated into one suit by the Department of Justice last year. News of the fraud resulted in a decline of HCP stock, which subsequently hurt investors, …
Two business immigration groups have filed a lawsuit seeking information about how the H-1B visa distribution system — including the visa lottery — works. It alleges that the U.S. has no right to keep most of the records secret. It is not surprising that the H-1B distribution system is coming under scrutiny in a lawsuit.
Indiana’s attorney general is opposing Indiana University’s effort to join a federal lawsuit that seeks to block a new state law banning abortions sought because of genetic abnormalities. IU filed a motion Monday seeking to intervene in the suit, claiming the law could subject IU researchers to criminal charges because they use fetal tissue for research into autism, Alzheimer’s and other …
Indiana University has joined the fight against the state’s new abortion law. This week, the school joined a challenge against HEA 1337 filed in federal court by the ACLU and Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky. IU claims the law could result in criminal charges against the university and its employees engaged in ongoing fetal tissue research on autism, Alzheimer’s and …