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News Sep 8, 2016

‘Systemic Breakdown’: 16yo Girl Died in Juvenile Jail as Staff Did Nothing, Lawsuit Claims

Arrested for dubious reasons and taken to a Kentucky juvenile detention center more than an hour from her home, McMillen, 16, was left to die on January 10 as several staff members at Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center failed to perform basic duties to ensure the unresponsive teenager was safe, a federal lawsuit filed by her family on August 31 against the Kentucky Department of …

Lawsuits Apr 28, 2016

Facebook Accused of Badgering Non-Facebook Users With Text Messages in TCPA Lawsuit

Imagine suddenly being bombarded by unsolicited text messages from the social network Facebook. Now imagine this happening despite the fact that you’re not a member of said network and have no interest in becoming one. That’s the predicament Christine Holt of Washington, D.C., says she found herself in last month when she obtained a new cell phone number from MetroPCS.