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Judge to Dismiss Some Claims in Baltimore Officers’ Lawsuit

A federal judge says he’ll dismiss several allegations in a defamation lawsuit against Baltimore’s top prosecutor and a member of the sheriff’s office brought by officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who was injured in a police van. Media outlets report that U.S. District Judge Marvin Garbis indicated Thursday at a hearing that he would drop some of the …


‘Empire’ Lawsuit: Child Detainees Claim Filming Kept Them From Getting Schooled

In what might be the first documented instance of children complaining that they weren’t allowed to go to school, the people behind the series “Empire” have been hit with a class-action lawsuit by a pair of young detainees who claim that the shooting of the series kept them from receiving their education. In the suit, filed in federal court in Illinois on Wednesday, two minors claim that an …