Governor Robert Bentley on Thursday issued a statement regarding the judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit against the Gulf State Park project. The Governor’s Statement …
Donald Watkins, in a Facebook post on Wednesday, says his lawyer has demanded the Securities and Exchange Commission dismiss the civil lawsuit the agency filed claiming he defrauded professional athletes and other investors out of millions of dollars and using much of it on personal expenses. Watkins, an Alabama businessman and attorney who once represented long-time …
Earlier this year we reported on the backlash surrounding a controversial gun control documentary, Under the Gun, produced by Katie Couric. Much of the backlash stemmed from a scene where Couric asked members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) a question about background checks. In the final edit, additional time was added between the question and the response, making it appear as …
Learning conditions in many Detroit schools are so bad, they violate students’ basic rights under the U.S. Constitution. That’s what a new federal lawsuit contends. It was filed on behalf of students at five of the lowest-performing Detroit schools, including one charter school.
The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) and the Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) have offered to underwrite the legal costs for the defense of the drainage districts targeted in the Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) lawsuit. Leaders of the utility claim officials in Buena Vista, Calhoun and Sac Counties have failed to adequately manage 10 drainage districts in their area, causing nitrate levels …
The family of a Louisville man who was fatally shot by two Metro police officers said those officers were reckless, malicious and grossly negligent. Body camera video released Monday showed firsthand accounts from the three officers involved in the deadly police shooting on Broadleaf Drive. The Louisville Metro Police Department has released body camera video of an officer-involved shooting …
Attorneys for the Costa Mesa Police Department filed a motion Monday seeking to move from state to federal court a lawsuit alleging officers exceeded their legal authority when they raided a former medical marijuana dispensary. Lawyers Dennis M. Cota and Daniel S. Roberts, who represent the Police Department and city of Costa Mesa, did not return phone calls and emails Tuesday …
A single mother battling cancer and a victim of domestic abuse are among immigrants who qualify for Arizona driver’s licenses but have been unlawfully denied, a group of advocacy organizations claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court this week. Arizona’s policy of denying …
A mother alleges in a recently-filed lawsuit that her daughter committed suicide at William Paterson University after school officials failed to report and fully investigate the young woman’s alleged rape last year, NJ.com reported. Cherelle Jovanna Locklear, 21, hung herself in her dorm room bathroom in November 2015, according to the lawsuit her mother, Marquessa C. Jackson- …
Lawyers for Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC said a federal judge ignored his own deadline by certifying a class-action lawsuit tied to a bribery probe on Wednesday without giving the largest publicly traded U.S. hedge fund company a chance to object. U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan said Och-Ziff shareholders from February …