A former Liberty University student is suing the university. According to documents, the student is seeking over $102 million for defamation. The defendant, Cameron Jackson, says that a press release sent out by Liberty University last September violated his Title IX rights.
Saying he was treated as a “virtual sex slave” by a Michigan Department of Corrections counselor, a former inmate has filed a lawsuit against the department and the social worker, the mother of his 1-year-old child. Steven Moerman, 44, accuses Susan Clingerman of raping him on a weekly basis, intentionally inflicting emotional …
Madison officials are trying to get a lawsuit filed in Hinds County involving a Madison police pursuit of burglary suspects inside Jackson thrown out or transferred. Robert Pugh of Jackson, who was injured when …
An $80 million settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought by two former Jackson County employees exposed to asbestos during renovation of the Jackson County Courthouse three decades ago. The settlement includes up to $25 million in attorney’s fees and costs to litigate the case. The rest will go into a medical monitoring fund, thought to be the largest ever established in a …
The latest complaint, filed by a Jane Doe who alleges that she was abused by Jackson from 1986 to 1989, when she was aged 12 to 15, claims that Jackson secretly operated, “the most sophisticated public child sexual-abuse procurement and facilitation organizations the world has known.” Reps for Jackson’s estate have been quick to rubbish the claims, accusing the woman of an “attempt to hit the …
City attorneys want a federal judge to toss a lawsuit filed by a Tulane professor last month that argues the city should remove the statue of Andrew Jackson from Jackson Square if it also takes down Confederate monuments. In a filing with the U.S. District Court on Monday (Aug. 15), the city argues it has the right to target removal of Confederate monuments over others in the city, and …
Jackson’s nephews announce legal action over recent Neverland pornography claims. Michael Jackson’s nephews have sued Radar Online for libel over sexual abuse reports published last month, which they describe as a “vicious and unrelenting attack” on the late singer. In June, Radar Online published police documents from a 2003 raid on Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in California, which detailed items …
Jackson has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit by ending the practice of jailing indigent people who can’t pay fines and fees in misdemeanor cases. The city agreed to give indigent defendants the choice …
A former Lansing Eastern High student says school administrators acted with indifference after an all-state football player raped her on school grounds. She said school officials ignored concerns that she was in danger and that their failure to promptly respond and investigate subjected her to harassment and a hostile environment. …
JACKSON Municipal-court systems that practice “pay or stay” policies, jailing people who cannot afford fines such as Jackson has done, are facing legal objections across the South from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union. In addition to Jackson, this includes the Municipal Court of Biloxi. “The Supreme Court has held, consistently and for a long period of time, basically that you …