Plaintiff Richard Rosenbaum has filed a class action lawsuit against Toyota claiming that the automaker has misrepresented the electric-only range of the plug-in hybrid. According to the suit, Toyota’s claim that …
About 150 groups from around the country that provide services to American Indian farmers and ranchers have applied to receive grant money from a $38 million one-time fund set up as part of the federal government’s loan discrimination settlement with Native Americans. An advisory committee will whittle down the proposals and make a recommendation to a federal judge by Oct. …
Out activist DeRay Mckesson filed a federal class-action lawsuit Thursday against the City of Baton Rouge for what he alleges was “excessive force” used by law enforcement during Mckesson’s July 9 arrest in Louisiana. Mckesson, a prominent organizer within the Movement for Black Lives who has been at the front lines of nationwide protests against police brutality, was one of the 200 activists …
Communications giant Comcast is facing a lawsuit in Missouri. This is a class-action lawsuit, seeking compensation and punitive damages for all Missouri Comcast customers who purchased the protection plan after August of 2011.
Breezy just can’t seem to catch a break. Chris Brown has been struck with another lawsuit following a 2014 shooting at a Los Angeles nightclub. TMZ reports that Ginja Elms, a clubgoer who was struck by a bullet during the shooting at 1 OAK nightclub, is suing Chris Brown.
Filthy cells, toilets and walls covered in blood and feces, and sexual harassment by sheriffs’ deputies – those are just some of the things women say they’ve endured at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. Four women who filed a federal lawsuit over the jail’s conditions have settled with Alameda County, and say the fact that they’re white helped bring about the settlement and changes at …
Deerfield Academy has settled a federal lawsuit filed by a former student who accused a former mathematics teacher at the prestigious private school of sexually abusing him. The victim, referred to in the lawsuit as “John Doe” and who was 14 at the time of the 1979 incident, filed it against Peter Hindle, who retired from Deerfield Academy in 2000 after working there for over four …
A former University of Minnesota employee has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that she lost her job in the Office for Equity and Diversity for raising concerns about racial profiling on campus. Alysia Lajune of Woodbury says that she was forced out as a vice president’s assistant in 2014 after she criticized university officials for identifying suspects in campus crime alerts as black males. …
Not long after photographer Carol Highsmith sued Getty Images for $1 billion, claiming the photo agency had copyrighted thousands of her images without her permission, Getty is facing yet another lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement. Zuma Press, an independent press agency, filed a …
Fill one of these out, carry a gun on a college campus. Monday, Texas public universities ushered in the first day of a new reality. Anyone on campus licensed to carry a handgun is now legally allowed to do so on portions of state owned, four-year college campuses, thanks to a bill passed during the 2015 legislative session.