D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine on Oct. 12 filed a court brief responding to a lawsuit filed last year by a gay former D.C. police officer accusing fellow officers and supervisors of subjecting him to discrimination, harassment and retaliation based on his sexual orientation. Racine’s 17-page brief, filed on …
It has been one full week since Donald Trump’ s lawyer threatened the New York Times with a lawsuit. Seven whole days and…? Nothing.
A sixth victim has come forward to sue Orange Center Elementary School over a molestation by the principal and this lawsuit targets the county of Fresno as well. Lance Clement’s crimes are well known now. Several young girls accused him of improper touching and when investigators came to his house to serve a warrant in June 2014, the Orange Center Elementary principal …
The state’s online voter registration system crashed on Monday, preventing some Virginians from signing up in time for the November 8th election. Now, voting rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit to force the state to extend the deadline. It’s impossible to know how many people were affected, but the groups that filed the federal lawsuit believe there could be …
Under pressure of a lawsuit challenging the city’s at-large electoral system , the City Council will soon decide whether to fight the suit in court or relent and change the way West Covina residents vote in city elections. It could also potentially be very expensive. “It is roughly a $4 (million) to $5 million gamble for the city to take,” said attorney James Touchstone, a lawyer …
Today young people filed a constitutional climate lawsuit against the Norwegian government for allowing oil companies to drill for new oil in the Arctic Barents Sea, endangering young people and future generations with more climate pollution. The plaintiffs, Nature and Youth – the largest youth-led organization in Norway – and Greenpeace Norway, argue that Norway has violated …
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan [advocacy website] filed a class-action lawsuit [complaint, PDF; fact sheet , PDF] Monday regarding children’s education in relation to the Flint water crisis. The plaintiffs include 15 Flint families who allege that the Michigan Department of Education, Flint Community Schools and Genesee Intermediate School District failed to protect …
Harry Shearer, increasingly the sonorous voice of protest in various contract disputes, is suing the entertainment groups Vivendi and StudioCanal for $125 million , over profits he says he was cheated out of for This Is Spinal Tap . Shearer played Derek Smalls, bassist and self-described “lukewarm water,” in the 1984 metal mockumentary, which was based on characters he, Christopher Guest, and …
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Lakewood Police Department for its use of a now-retired police dog that has been at the center of four civil-rights lawsuits for inflicting savage bites. U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton, in an order last week sending the case to trial, said allegations contained in a lawsuit filed in 2015 by Kerry Tucker “could determine that …
Dash Boutique is blind to the needs of the visually impaired — at least, that’s the claim made by a lawsuit filed against the boutique chain founded by the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” family. In the suit filed last week in federal court in Florida, Andres Gomez claims that the website for the chain, which offers merchandise for sale, discriminates against the visually impaired. “This case …