Three more La Vernia High School students were arrested this week in connection with a hazing case that has ripped through the small town 30 minutes southeast of San Antonio. The arrests were made at the school and bring the total number of arrests in the case to 13. The arrests are part of an ongoing investigation into alleged sexual assaults dating back to 2014.
An explosive high-school sexual assault scandal rocking the small town of La Vernia, Texas, widened Tuesday, with the arrest of three additional students and the filing of a federal lawsuit alleging school officials knew about criminal hazing going on in the athletic program and failed to protect student victims. Colton Weidner, Christian “Brock” Roberts, and John Rutkowski, all 18 and members …
After nearly eight months of litigation, LA Fitness and its parent company, Fitness International LLC, last Thursday reached an out-of-court settlement in a class action lawsuit in which the health club chain was accused of misrepresenting one-month membership renewals. The sum of the settlement has not been disclosed. The lawsuit was first filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District …
A circuit court judge ruled in favor of the state Department of Natural Resources in a lawsuit over the expansion of railroads in La Crosse. Citizens activists filed the lawsuit in March 2015 claiming DNR officials didn’t fully evaluate the environmental impacts of adding a second railroad track through the La Crosse River marsh. But La Crosse Circuit Judge Scott Horne found that DNR officials …
The complaint alleges that the Registration Statement and Prospectus issued in connection with the SPO failed to disclose material trends, events and/or uncertainties: (1) La Quinta was suffering a declining customer demand in its key Texas market; (2) there were continuous disruptions caused by the transitioning of La Quinta’s call center operations; and (3) La Quinta was was suffering a …