Family members of Adrian Jones, a 7-year-old boy who was fed to pigs after being killed by his father and stepmother, have filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against social service workers in Kansas and Missouri, KTLA sister station WDAF in Kansas City reported Friday. Adrian Jones is seen in a photo obtained by KTLA sister station WDAF. In the lawsuit, the boy’s maternal grandmother, …
The parents of the 22-year-old who was shot and killed by an El Paso police officer have filed a lawsuit against the officers involved and the city of El Paso. According to court documents, the lawsuit was filed on Friday and alleges that the shooting death of Erik Emmanuel Salas Sanchez was unjustified and that he was killed in front of his mother, his sister and her infant daughter. Earlier …
Vermont-based brewing company Keurig is reportedly being slapped with a lawsuit two years after one of its coffee machines sparked a costly fire at an Upton home. Boston-based insurer Liberty Mutual claims the coffee machine is to blame for the $100,000 in damages to the home. The lawsuit was filed in Suffolk Superior Court, reports the Boston Globe.
Major record labels are once again trying to force an Internet service provider into enforcing their copyrights by cutting off customers from the Internet over copyright accusations. The lawsuit they filed against Texas broadband provider Grande Communications suffers from many of the same due process problems as the BMG Music Publishing v. Cox Communications case, which is on appeal. The issue …
Is it possible to arrest an unarmed homeless person without destroying the residence he’s hiding in? To the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department and Clovis PD (and far too many other law enforcement agencies), the question remains rhetorical. David Jessen’s farmhouse felt the full, combined force of two law enforcement agencies and all their toys last June.
Ygrene Energy Fund has been sued in a potential class-action complaint that alleges the Santa Rosa company deceived customers about the costs and difficulties linked to its financing for home energy improvement projects. The federal lawsuit alleges the company misled clients in California and Florida by suggesting they wouldn’t have to pay off their Ygrene financing …
Uncertainty now surrounds two upscale subdivisions in Lakeland following the filing of a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of people who own property or live in the Oakbridge and Grasslands subdivisions in Lakeland. Grasslands is a premier golf community with upscale housing.
New York City is suing Verizon, saying the phone giant broke its 2008 promise to make its FiOS cable service available to all city residents. The city says Verizon missed a 2014 deadline to extend wire by every home or apartment building in the city — in technical parlance, “passing” the home. The city also argues that Verizon hasn’t installed service for thousands …
A family has won its case claiming the LBJ freeway expansion damaged their home. Aurora and Felipe Rodriguez were the first of 223 plaintiffs to go to trial against Trinity Infrastructure, claiming the construction caused the homes to shift and crack. The jury awarded them $248,000 to rebuild their home, finding the contractor behind …
A nurse is challenging a Maryland county’s stun gun ban on Second Amendment grounds. Leah Baran sued in federal court after stun gun manufacturer Taser International refused to ship the device to her home in Howard County last month, Courthouse News Service reports. Baran says she wants a stun gun becasue she fears for her life after her ex-boyfriend broke into her home, raped her and tried to …