A judge today allowed a lawsuit over pay raises for county officials to move forward, despite efforts by attorneys to quash it. At a preliminary hearing, Judge Spencer Ludington denied motions by defense attorneys to dismiss the lawsuit as “non-justiciable.” The hearing was the first in a six-month-old lawsuit from County Comptroller Bob Antonacci.
A member of one of Saskatchewan’s most prominent business families, and his associate, are facing allegations in a lawsuit including self-dealing, mismanagement, and a scheme to wilfully devalue investments in several retirement communities so they could be bought at a fraction of their real value. The allegations against Darrell Remai and his business associate, Sirous Tosh, are contained in a …
A lawsuit claims that Pamela Smart was wrongly put into solitary confinement after a prison guard found a plastic cake knife in her cell. Pame Smart is serving a life sentence in a New York prison for her role in the 1990 murder of her husband, Gregg Smart, in Derry. In a federal lawsuit, Pame Smart alleges that the guard confiscated the knife in 2012, even though she had it for 17 years and it …
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 …
Gay rights groups are warning that if the governing body for Texas high school athletics continues to hold firm on their rules regarding transgender students, they’re opening the state up to a lawsuit. An informal policy by the University Interscholastic League, which requires student athletes to play on the team that corresponds to their birth certificate, is poised to become official on August 1. Attorney Paul Castillo with the Texas office of the LGBT rights group Lambda Legal, says …
A Charlottesville man is filing a federal lawsuit challenging City Council’s rules for speakers at council meetings. Joseph Draego voiced his concerns over the influx of Muslim refugees during a public Charlottesville City Council meeting on July 20. Draego said many Muslims are “real good people,” but later stated, “the Muslims, monstrous maniacs that they are, read their holy book and then …
SeaWorld Drops Lawsuit Challenging Restrictions on Captive Orca Program Lawsuit Dropped After Successful Campaign Led by the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Sea Shepherd SAN DIEGO – SeaWorld has requested dismissal of its lawsuit against the California Coastal Commission challenging conditions placed on its permit to expand tanks at the San Diego facility as part of their Blue World project. …
Huntsville’s city council voted to allow City Attorney Trey Riley to settle a lawsuit alleging that a STAC investigator from Huntsville Police Department hit a detainee. The lawsuit, “Vance Derrick Stone v. City of Huntsville, et al,” alleges officer Anthony McElyea struck Vance Stone while he was waiting to be taken to the hospital post-arrest. It was …
Bradley County Sheriff Deputy Tiffany Oakley Bradley County Sheriff Deputy Tiffany Oakley Photo by Contributed Photo /Times Free Press. The family of a 23-year-old man shot to death last year by a Bradley County, Tenn., deputy has filed a $3 million lawsuit saying he was needlessly killed and charging the sheriff’s office covered up what really happened. When the shooting happened on July 28, …
Neurosurgeon J. William Bookwalter was examining a colleague’s patient who had back troubles when he made an unusual discovery: The operation that his colleague billed Medicare for was far more extensive than the one actually done, according to allegations contained in a lawsuit. A review of two more back operations performed by UPMC neurosurgeon Ghassan Bejjani on another patient yielded the …