A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Bessemer attorney against the five U.S. Supreme Court justices who made up the majority opinion legalizing gay marriage nationwide. U.S. District Court Judge Madeline Haikala tossed out the lawsuit based on judicial immunity. The U.S. 11 th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a previous case that federal judges have judicial immunity …
Thursday morning’s 10 a.m. hearing at the Alfred A. Arraj courthouse was significantly less crowded than last week’s for a class action lawsuit filed against Denver that alleges the city is violating the U.S. Constitution when it conducts regular sweeps of the homeless. Much of the October 20 hearing was spent affirming …
A Kendall County judge says he will issue a written decision in 45 days on whether a lawsuit filed against former U.S. House speaker Dennis Hastert by a sexual abuse victim should be dismissed. Characterizing the lawsuit as a form of extortion, attorneys for Hastert asked Judge Robert Pilmer to dismiss a lawsuit brought in April by the man who contends Hastert owes him …
Under a settlement agreement reached this week, Yakima Neighborhood Health Services will drop its federal lawsuit against the city of Yakima and instead submit a new application for using Roy’s Market as an apartment building to house local homeless people. The revised application, which Neighborhood Health must submit within 90 days, will be for an apartment facility in which up to 40 homeless …
After settling with regulators for $185 million over signing up its customers for more than 2 million accounts without their knowledge and subsequently charging them fees, Wells Fargo became the focus of a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. White-collar criminologist William Black told the Real News that the hard work exposing the bank’s practices was “done by the …
A former University of San Diego student is suing the school, saying she was drugged, strangled and raped in her dorm room and the school mishandled the investigation and then failed to help her feel safe on campus. The student reported that she was attacked in February 2014. She requested to be identified only by her nickname, âNiki,â and The San Diego Union-Tribune agreed, given a policy …
Unless you are a named defendant in the settled litigation or one of their affiliates, as that term is defined in the Stipulation and Agreement of Compromise and Settlement dated July 14, 2016 (the “Stipulation”), or you exclude yourself from the Settlement, you are a member of the Class if you held AuthenTec common stock any time between and including July 27, 2012 and October 4, 2012. What …
A judge today allowed a lawsuit over pay raises for county officials to move forward, despite efforts by attorneys to quash it. At a preliminary hearing, Judge Spencer Ludington denied motions by defense attorneys to dismiss the lawsuit as “non-justiciable.” The hearing was the first in a six-month-old lawsuit from County Comptroller Bob Antonacci.
After struggling with addiction and mental illness, Jayne Fuentes served her time, found a job and got her life back on track. But even though she’d been sober and crime-free for years, one thing dogged her: fear of being jailed or forced to do physical labor because she can’t afford to pay the government. Jayne is among the scores of people who owe Benton County, Washington thousands of …
According the the filings in a lawsuit brought by Equal Justice Under Law against Harris County, Texas, 77% of the inmates in Harris County Jail — largest in Texas, third largest in America — are there because they couldn’t make a bail payment of $5,000 or less. Bail in the jail is assessed via video-links during which the accused are instructed not to speak and are not given access to …