A former Benton Harbor High School student says the school district protected a star quarterback – who led the Tigers to their first-ever playoff win – after he sexually …
Despite filing a lawsuit against a British tabloid for running an inaccurate story on the grounds that it damaged her ability to “launch a broad-based commercial brand,” First Lady Melania Trump claims that she never intended to use her position for personal profit. According to a statement released by both a spokeswoman and her law firm, Trump had “no intention” of earning money off of being …
Vizio settled at $2.2 million settlement Monday in a lawsuit that claimed the company used its internet-connected TVs to track customers without their knowledge. The lawsuit was filed by the Federal Trade Commission and the attorney general of New Jersey. The television maker said in a statement that the information collected was used in aggregate, and never paired with “personally identifiable …
Some legal trouble may be brewing for the Butler Area School District over the high levels of lead found in the drinking water at Summit Elementary School. A federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday against the district and its superintendent. There is only one plaintiff so far, but the lawyers are intending it as a class action suit.
After two years of intense scrutiny from the U.S. Senate and elsewhere, online ad-posting site Backpage.com announced that it is shuttering its adult services section, which was repeatedly accused by critics of facilitating child prostitution and human trafficking. USA TODAY The lawsuit takes aim at Backpage, an online marketplace born from the back page of classifieds in alternative weekly …
A lawsuit has been filed in a southern Illinois court against the company that managed the Illinois Lottery. The Belleville News Democrat reports that the lawsuit filed in St. Clair News-Democrat Northstar Lottery Group defrauded businesses that sold scratch-off tickets and the individuals who bought them. The lawsuit comes after a Chicago Tribune story that found that …
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, three Holyoke police officers were accused of beating a 12-year-old boy unconscious after responding to a shots-fired call in 2014. “Rather than searching and questioning the boy the officers assaulted him without cause, inflicting a concussion, deviated nasal septum, multiple abrasions and contusions to the scalp, …
Yet another online people search website has been targeted for allegedly breaking an Illinois privacy law, as a new class action alleges WhitePages.com also wrongly uses a web search advertising technique to use people’s names to market their search reports. On Feb. 1, plaintiff Kevin Klingler, identified only as a resident of Illinois, filed suit in Cook County Circuit Court, alleging the …
A nurse is challenging a Maryland county’s stun gun ban on Second Amendment grounds. Leah Baran sued in federal court after stun gun manufacturer Taser International refused to ship the device to her home in Howard County last month, Courthouse News Service reports. Baran says she wants a stun gun becasue she fears for her life after her ex-boyfriend broke into her home, raped her and tried to …
Frank Ocean is getting sued by his own father for allegedly defaming his good name. According to TMZ, the singer’s father, Calvin Cooksey, filed a defamation lawsuit against Ocean citing a Tumblr post he wrote last year about the tragic mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. In his missive, Ocean reflects on a traumatizing memory of his father.