A University of Virginia (UVA) dean triumphed in her lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine Friday, with a jury finding the magazine liable for defaming her in an article about a bogus gang-rape on campus. Nicole Eramo sued the magazine in 2015 over her portrayal in the infamous Sabrina Erdely article “A Rape on Campus,” which recounted allegations by then-UVA student Jackie Coakley that she …
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Lakewood Police Department for its use of a now-retired police dog that has been at the center of four civil-rights lawsuits for inflicting savage bites. U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton, in an order last week sending the case to trial, said allegations contained in a lawsuit filed in 2015 by Kerry Tucker “could determine that …
Jim Carrey has responded to a lawsuit filed on Monday, accusing him of wrongfully providing the drugs that led to the Sept. 2015 death of his girlfriend, Cathriona White. “What a terrible shame,” Carrey said in a statement to ET. “It would be easy for me to get in a back room with this man’s lawyer and make this go away, but there are some moments in life when you have to stand up and defend …
Nick Gordon, who was the partner of Whitney Houston’s late daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, has lost a wrongful death lawsuit filed by her estate. Brown, 22, died in July 2015, six months after being found unresponsive in a bath by Gordon and a friend at her home in Atlanta. An autopsy found drug intoxication and the immersion of her face in the water contributed to her death.
“Cooperatives Working Together actually had information about its so-called ‘dairy herd retirement,’ program on its own website, along with economic analysis … showing how much the industry profited from the program,” Leahy said. “We took that information and analyzed the applicable law.” At least some of that data is still online. A 2009 analysis by Scott Brown of the University of Missouri- …
Judges have issued competing rulings over the validity of lawsuits filed by patients who fear they may have been infected by a former surgical technologist at Swedish Medical Center who stole painkiller syringes while he was HIV positive. Denver District Court Judge Jay Grant on Thursday dismissed one of the lawsuits because free blood tests offered by Swedish had not found infections among …
A jury has found in favor of a University of Washington surgeon who was sued by the daughter of a patient who died after the doctor used a non-FDA-approved bone cement during the woman’s spinal surgery. Rick Friedman, the lawyer for Cindy Wilson, says the jury reached the decision on Friday that Dr. Jens Chapman did not act below the standard of medical care when he used the Norian bone cement …
(JTA) – The parents of Russian-Jewish actor Anton Yelchin are planning to sue Fiat Chrysler and its manufacturer over the wrongful death of their son. Yelchin, 27, who starred in the new “Star Trek” movies reboot, was found dead at his home in Studio City, California, on June 19 after being crushed by his 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Friends found Yelchin pinned between his car and a brick pillar; …
Recently the jury’s verdict on the talcum powder’s lawsuit left many people shocked worldwide. If Johnson & Johnson was found guilty and ordered to pay $127 million in compensatory damage, is this the irrefutable proof that their famous cosmetic product can cause cancer? And if so, why science keeps claiming that there’s no consensus on whether this substance is truly dangerous for our health?
Buried and briefly mentioned within a federal lawsuit filed this month is a new theory on a 16-year-old question: Why was Camille Arfmann killed? Arfmann stepped off a school bus in Oskaloosa on Nov. 5, 1999, and was found dead less than three days later. The 14-year-old had been shot four times and buried beneath garbage in the northern outskirts of the small Jefferson County town.