A lawsuit has been filed in federal court alleging human rights violations in Holyoke Public Schools. The suit alleges the district fails to provide parents who speak limited English adequate translation services, including for educational documents regarding the children in their families. “For at least two decades, HPS has routinely and repeatedly failed to translate important educational …
Two more students who were punished for their roles in a racist Instagram incident at Albany High are suing school district officials and their principal, alleging violations of their right to free speech, as well as being forced to endure public shaming, violence and emotional abuse. Related Articles Students also allege that school district officials and administrators “created a …
Texas lodged a preemptive lawsuit Monday against local officials considered hostile to the state’s new anti-sanctuary cities law, the first salvo in an expected legal fight over the controversial measure. State Attorney General Ken Paxton said the federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, is necessary to protect the law from challenges by liberal …
Judicial Watch is suing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for emails former Secretary Jeh Johnson and three other top agency officials sent or received from personal email accounts, the nonprofit government watchdog group announced Friday.The lawsuit was filed after DHS produced no records in response to a Dec. 29, 2015, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the emails. A federal court …
Attorneys for the plaintiffs in a federal climate lawsuit yesterday named President Trump as a defendant in the case. In 2015, a group of kids, young adults and environmentalists sued the U.S. government and top officials — including President Obama — for failing to protect them from the dangers of climate change, despite detailed warnings and research of its risks. Julia Olson, a lawyer for …
The Federal Trade Commission’s two-year probe of Qualcomm has led to the government filing suit against the California-based company, accusing executives of employing “onerous” tactics allowing it to “maintain a monopoly on baseband processors.” Since then, the semiconductor manufacturer has been slapped with at least two putative class action complaints filed …
Washington: Ahmer Abbasi speaks softly as he describes the strip searches, the extra shoves, the curses that he endured in a federal jail in Brooklyn following the 11 September attacks. “I don’t think I deserved it,” Abbasi said during a telephone interview with The Associated Press from his home in Karachi, Pakistan. Abbasi’s quiet, matter-of-fact tone belies his determination, even after 15 …
Chicago’s red-light camera program is an example of how government can fail miserably. Chicago city officials installed their red-light camera program to pick the pockets of local motorists, not enhance traffic safety. So it seems apropos that a Cook County judge this week gave her approval to a class-action lawsuit covering up to 1.5 million motorists that attacks the manner in which this …
Allegations of discrimination and grade inflation are at the center of a lawsuit filed by an Arab American high school teacher against the Jersey City public-school district. Nabil Youssef, a math teacher at Lincoln High School, alleges that starting in April 2014 district officials, including Schools Superintendent Marcia V. Lyles, attempted to get him not to fail children in his math class so …
Two community leaders have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Texas border officials from pushing for the creation of a new tax jurisdiction on some of the poorest Texans via allegedly questionable election procedures. As Breitbart Texas previously reported, local Democrats have been pushing for the creation of a new taxing district that would collect …