In one of the most shocking election surprises, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was accused by a woman of raping her when she was only 13 years old. The woman abruptly dropped her lawsuit last week, leading to plenty of speculation about what happened. Some even suggested Trump may have paid her off to keep quiet.
A federal judge in Ohio ruled Friday that a lawsuit filed against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for allegedly engaging in “viewpoint discrimination” while processing applications for tax exempt status by ten conservative groups has “a likelihood of success on the merits”. U.S. …
A Baton Rouge Police officer who was seriously injured during a protest has filed a lawsuit against the national Black Lives Matter movement. FILE – In this Saturday, July 9, 2016, file photo, police officers arrest activist DeRay McKesson during a protest along Airline Highway, a major road that passes in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters in …
Netflix is looking to strike down a $1.5 billion lawsuit from Relativity Media claiming breach of contract and libel, saying the embattled production company only wants to blame the streaming giant for its failure. The lawsuit from Relativity, on which TheWrap reported exclusively in October , said Netflix acted in “bad faith” over an output deal that paid millions to Ryan Kavanaugh’s company …
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 …
A group of Chicago property owners are taking the city to court over rules for homesharing that are “literally incomprehensible.” Chicago’s new regulations for short-term rentals, including those made over web services like Airbnb and VRBO, are scheduled to take effect next month. In the lawsuit filed on Nov. 4 in U.S. District Court, a nonprofit group called Keep Chicago …
A federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit Friday that accused Nevada officials and the state psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas of violating patients’ civil rights by giving them bus tickets and dumping them in other states. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision said it could not consider the merits of the suit because the plaintiff, James Flavy Coy Brown, failed to raise a …
Don’t offer prison inmate John Demos your Hershey Bar, your Kellogg’s corn flakes or your Bazooka bubble gum. And he doesn’t think your Campbell soup Is mmmm-mmmm good. The Washington state inmate filed a lawsuit in Macon’s federal court this week, arguing that those companies and several others gave him bladder and intestine problems. Also named in the lawsuit are …
A former employee of Stamford-based Gerald Metals filed last week an age and gender discrimination lawsuit against the company, in a case that also represents one of the first to invoke the state’s anti-pay secrecy law.
Filed in U.S. District Court in Connecticut, the lawsuit alleges that the company’s treatment of Roxanne Khazarian , 61, reflected a culture of …
A lawyer, who represents an anonymous family, has filed a federal lawsuit against three Newtown police officers alleging that the police violated the family’s civil rights, and also certain state law, in connection with the arrest of the father of the family on several child sexual abuse charges in May 2013. Attorney Sally A. Roberts of Hartford said November 2 that the police named in the …