“A team of ICE agents approached the man as he walked up to the front door of the courthouse building. In March 2019, ICE agents arrested a defendant who was scheduled to appear in Westchester County Supreme Court. ICE courthouse operations in and around state courthouses increased by 1,700% in 2018 compared to 2016, according to the lawsuit. (Photo: Tania Savayan/The Journal News)The effect, …
A new lawsuit seeks to stop an initiative banning safe consumption sites across King County from ever appearing on a King County ballot. Protect Public Health, a new nonprofit started by “public health experts and family members who have lost loved ones to overdose,” filed a lawsuit today arguing Initiative …
The city is delaying borrowing $300 million to support a massive rebuild of the city’s parks, libraries and community centers as a lawsuit over the new sugar-sweetened beverage tax snakes through the courts system. Mike Dunn, a spokesman for Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration, told Billy Penn Tuesday that in addition to delaying the borrowing of that $300 million, the city …
Residents of an Oklahoma town hit by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in September have filed a class-action lawsuit against more than two dozen of energy companies, accusing them of triggering destructive earthquake by injecting wastewater from oil and gas production underground. Pawnee residents filed the suit in district court against 27 companies …
The marijuana legalization effort will appear on the November ballot, despite a legal battle mounted by opponents to get it tossed. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jo Lynn Gentry dismissed a …