ProPublica and the Virginian-Pilot filed a lawsuit today in federal court against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, accusing the agency of stonewalling requests for documents under the Freedom of Information Act. The lawsuit, ProPublica’s second against the VA in two months, seeks a preliminary injunction compelling the government to immediately release correspondence about Agent Orange, …
The Orange Unified School District has reached a $10 million settlement with the families of five children injured in a 2014 school bus crash in Anahim Hills, a law firm announced Tuesday. Several children were seriously injured when bus driver Gerald Rupple passed out and smashed the coach into a tree while driving 11 children home from El Rancho Charter Middle School. Rupple, now 27, is …
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 …
India’s largest IT firm Tata Consultancy Services and its US affiliate have paid Orange County, Calfornia, $26 million to settle a lawsuit over what the latter termed as a “failed replacement” to the county’s automated property tax system. “TCS and Orange County have agreed to settle an ongoing dispute regarding the joint development of a Property Tax Management System,” a TCS spokesperson …
A family is suing a Florida hospital where staff reported finding maggots while examining a 76-year-old woman. The children of Dorothy Mooneyham of Orange Park seek over $15,000 damages from the Orange Park Medical Center. In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Clay County, Mooneyham’s children say the hospital abused and neglected a vulnerable adult and intentionally inflicted emotional distress.
Orange resident Joseph Cavins, 63, took up smoking electronic cigarettes two years ago to help kick his long-time chewing tobacco habit. He was smoking an e-cigarette at his computer desk on the night of April 15 when he suddenly heard a loud crack. “It felt like a metal baseball bat had hit the side of my face,” he said.