Manistee’s former director of public works – accused of selling scrap metal for personal gain – is suing the city, claiming malicious prosecution for embezzlement cost him election to the Manistee City Council. Manistee officials and a special prosecutor announced the criminal investigation just four days before John Garber’s name appeared on …
Another major non-profit agency has opted-out of a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit filed against the City of Windsor and Town of Tecumseh. Officials with Brentwood Recovery Home made the decision Tuesday night. Both municipalities launched a campaign urging charities to opt out of the lawsuit, one the city says will cost tax payers an estimated $70-million.
A federal judge may have dealt a serious blow to people suing over the Flint water crisis. U.S. District judge John Corbett O’Meara dismissed the class-action suit after finding the claims made by Flint residents couldn’t be resolved in federal court. At issue are claims made by the plaintiffs in the case that their constitutional rights and state law were…
Long Beach Middle School parents on Thursday filed a $10 million federal lawsuit against the Long Beach school district, alleging physical and sexual abuse of a student with autism by a special education teacher. Attorneys with the Garden City law firm Gerstman Schwartz Malito filed the lawsuit in the Eastern District of U.S. District Court in Central Islip against the district and several…
‘Political finger-pointing’ Cummings vowed an investigation and requested that Snyder “produce all emails, communications, and other documents relating to how you and your staff planned, developed and released your 75 point plan, including your internal discussions about how and when to involve Mayor Weaver and others in the process.” Snyder’s spokesman, Ari Adler, in a statement said the …
Oregon public health officials on Wednesday lifted warnings to Portland residents to stop eating vegetables grown in gardens near a glass factory where elevated airborne levels of hazardous metals were detected. Soil analysis found “low risk” to residents’ health near Bullseye Glass Co. in Southeast Portland, officials said. State health officials said they would release an analysis …
Oil-black water flowed through the pipes of Crystal City, Texas, last week. That marks one more American city that cannot provide the most basic necessity of life. And as instances of government negligence like this proliferate, we continue to run to the government for help, instead of accountability.
Buy Photo Director Keith Creagh said staffers should have insisted on applying corrosion controls two years ago. (Photo: Steve Perez / The Detroit News)Buy Photo Even with the state’s faulty interpretation of federal law, Michigan environmental officials should have moved to install corrosion controls in Flint’s water system no later than December 2014, when tests first revealed dangerous lead …
FLINT, Mich. (WXYZ) – New class action lawsuits have been filed in connection to the Flint water crisis. The lawsuits follow the discovery of high levels of lead contamination in the water supply from the Flint River. The suits were filed against Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, Former Flint Emergency Managers Darnell Earley and Jerry Ambrose, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, …
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My heart goes out to the Levinson family. That water crisis in Flint, Michigan, where dozens of national guardsmen are on the ground this morning and new lawsuits set to be filed this afternoon. ABC’s Alex Perez has the latest.