Kansas is currently being sued by two former rowers who say they were raped by the same football player. The player was investigated and expelled, but in their lawsuits both women say the university still violated Title IX in many ways. They claim that they suffered retaliation from the rowing coaches after reporting what happened; that Kansas ignored a history of sexual assault reports from …
A federal judge in New York has ruled that Tony Stewart’s insurance carrier is not liable for any claims arising out of a civil lawsuit filed against Stewart by the family of driver Kevin Ward Jr. U.S. District Court Judge David Hurd of the Northern District of New York issued a ruling on Friday that said Axis Insurance Co.’s policies with Stewart limited the insurer’s liability to specific …
Filthy cells, toilets and walls covered in blood and feces, and sexual harassment by sheriffs’ deputies – those are just some of the things women say they’ve endured at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. Four women who filed a federal lawsuit over the jail’s conditions have settled with Alameda County, and say the fact that they’re white helped bring about the settlement and changes at …
The YMCA of the Triangle has adopted a new non-discrimination policy as a result of a 2013 lawsuit from a father who said an after-school program declined to accept his son who has Type I diabetes. Bruce Hatcher, whose son was a kindergartner at Underwood GT Magnet Elementary School at the time, said YMCA officials told him that they do not administer shots and …
Reimbursements to Wells Fargo Bank customers in California continue to be doled out following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in April that denied the bank’s appeal related to a lawsuit involving overdraft fees. Beginning July 1, paper checks were sent to members of a class-action lawsuit who are no longer Wells Fargo customers, according to the bank’s spokesman Kristopher Dahl. Current customers …
A California restaurant is currently being targeted by a discrimination lawsuit set forth by a couple of Muslim women. The Urth Caffe in Laguna Beach has a policy that people can dine at the outside tables for only 45 minutes when it’s packed due to the massive demand for those particular tables. After that they’re asked to share their table or leave the table and sit elsewhere.
A Christian student group is suing North Carolina State University over a policy they say requires members to get a permit to talk to their classmates about Jesus. Grace Christian Life, a religious student group long recognized by the 35,000-student school in Raleigh, claimed in a federal suit that school officials barred members last September from evangelizing to people on campus. The …
Detroit — Several medical marijuana caregivers and patients have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging the Michigan State Police …
A Muslim police officer is suing the New York Police Department (NYPD) to stop enforcement of what he says is an unconstitutional policy banning officers from having beards. Masood Syed, who works as a law clerk for the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Trials, said he’s had a half-inch to one-inch beard throughout his 10-year police career, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday in …
Emerson Scott, LLP announces the filing of a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of a California and a nationwide class of persons with Transamerica …