How NASCAR Shot Down Steve Harvey and Earned a Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Steve Harvey wanted to start a racing team, but his efforts stalled before they even got started because NASCAR is a good-ol’-white-boys league and Steve Harvey is … well, Steve Harvey. At least that is what Terrance Cox, CEO of Diversity Motorsports, says he believes, and he has filed a $500 million lawsuit against …
Arkansas is the first state to successfully settle a class action lawsuit against tobacco giant Philip Morris; now some smokers could get their hands on some of the $45 million settlement. Glenda Wills started smoking back in the 1980’s; before the dangers of cigarettes were fully understood.
A Valley Center teacher is suing the district, citing breach of contract after she was terminated without due process earlier this year. Janet Decker, who worked as a gifted-program coordinator at Valley Center High School and Valley Center Middle School for 16 years, was issued a notice in April that her contract would not be renewed for the current school year, according to a lawsuit filed …
The State of Oregon has filed lawsuits against people it says were responsible for starting two forest fires. The state filed one lawsuit against a man who is accused of napping while his campfire sparked a 200-acre Southern Oregon blaze, according to the Oregonian/OregonLive. In that case filed against Joe Thurmond Askins, his wife and step-daughter, the state is seeking almost …
Delaware officials say a transgender prison inmate who filed a civil-rights lawsuit has a history of filing unsubstantiated grievances. Lawyers for the state have filed their response to the lawsuit by inmate Kamilla London.
ACLU seeks intervention in lawsuit targeting anti-discrimination protections for transgender people and women FORT WORTH, Texas — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Friday filed a motion to intervene in a case challenging a section of the Affordable Care Act that prohibits health care entities from discriminating based on race, national origin, sex, age, or disability. The lawsuit, …
Gov. Pat McCrory on Friday dropped one of the state’s lawsuit with the federal government over the legality of House Bill 2, leaving untouched a separate and similar contest in a different judicial district. The now-dropped lawsuit was filed in May by McCrory and Frank Perry, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, in the Eastern District of North Carolina …
In what could be the first lawsuit in the United States related to the exploding batteries of the Galaxy Note 7, a man from Florida filed charges against Samsung after the smartphone exploded while in the front pocket of his pants. According to the lawsuit, which was filed by a man named Jonathan Strobel, the smartphone exploded on Sept. 9. That date is a week after Samsung launched an …
Yes. It is actually happening. A Twitter shareholder has filed a lawsuit against the social networking platform, claiming that it misled investors with growth projections that have failed to come to pass.
North Carolina’s governor is dropping a lawsuit defending a law limiting LGBT protections as he pursues similar arguments in a separate case. Gov. Pat McCrory’s lawyers filed notice Friday that they’re voluntarily dismissing the lawsuit filed in May in a Raleigh federal court.