A Valley Center teacher is suing the district, citing breach of contract after she was terminated without due process earlier this year. Janet Decker, who worked as a gifted-program coordinator at Valley Center High School and Valley Center Middle School for 16 years, was issued a notice in April that her contract would not be renewed for the current school year, according to a lawsuit filed …
A federal lawsuit accuses Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp on Wednesday of disenfranchising thousands of minorities ahead of the presidential election, alleging that the state’s “strict matching” requirement for information on registration forms blocked them from voter rolls. The Republican Kemp’s office called it an unwarranted attack by liberal groups. But according to the suit, black, …
There is a very strange twist in the class action fraud lawsuit filed against the Democratic National Committee and former Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The recent developments haven’t gotten much mainstream media attention, but they are all documented in federal court. So, we decided to dig into them.
Conservation groups announced plans Monday to sue the Environmental Protection Agency. They say the agency isn’t doing enough to protect salmon from high water temperatures on the Columbia and Snake rivers. Warm water can be deadly for salmon.
Geprags Park in Hinesburg is a popular place for dog walkers, birders and others out for a hike. “This is a regular walking spot for me,” Lisa Barrett said. Barrett lives in Richmond but takes her dogs to the 85-acre park.
Three US citizens have filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over Updategate. Florida Windows users Al Khafaji, Ahmad Abdulreda and Robert Stahl filed the suit in a federal court, claiming that Microsoft “coerced” them into upgrading to Windows 10 and that the “unintentional” upgrades borked their machines. There have been rumblings all year from customers talking of class-action …
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 federal lawsuit brought by states against the Obama administration marks the first major court test of its new policy that transgender students should be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice. On one level, the case is about whether civil rights laws that Congress enacted decades ago envisioned such …
The American Immigration Council (Council) and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) have teamed up on a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) seeking information about the government’s …
Two business immigration groups have filed a lawsuit seeking information about how the H-1B visa distribution system — including the visa lottery — works. It alleges that the U.S. has no right to keep most of the records secret. It is not surprising that the H-1B distribution system is coming under scrutiny in a lawsuit.