A family has filed a federal lawsuit against the town where two deputy marshals will stand trial for second-degree murder. Documents show that the lawsuit was filed Thursday, Oct. 27 on behalf of the family of Jeremy Mardis, the 6-year-old boy with autism who died after he was shot six times during an alleged traffic stop. The child’s father, Christopher Few, was also critically injured during …
A federal judge says he’ll dismiss several allegations in a defamation lawsuit against Baltimore’s top prosecutor and a member of the sheriff’s office brought by officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who was injured in a police van. Media outlets report that U.S. District Judge Marvin Garbis indicated Thursday at a hearing that he would drop some of the …
Court documents show that the customer was allegedly given a receipt containing a racial epithet. Miami, FL (PRWEB) September 29, 2016 On September 29th, 2016, ClassAction.com civil rights attorney Michael Hanna filed a discrimination lawsuit against Florida restaurant Los Perros, alleging that the restaurant violated state and federal public accommodations and anti-discrimination statutes. …
The establishment’s name might be changed, but its stigma will remain the same after the U.S. Department of Justice filed a discrimination lawsuit on Wednesday. The lawsuit alleges that the owners and operators of 360 Midtown “discriminated against African-American, Hispanic and Asian-American patrons in violation of Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” according to a statement released …
A Christian school in Florida is suing the Florida High School Athletic Association claiming the group violated the school’s constitutional rights. Cambridge Christian School’s federal lawsuit says the FHSAA refused to allow the school to offer a prayer over the loudspeaker before the Division 2A state …
A class-action lawsuit arguing undocumented children should be allowed government-appointed lawyers during deportation proceedings cannot move forward, a federal appeals court in Seattle ruled Tuesday. The three-judge panel was not addressing the claim itself; whether due process and statutory rights of minors are being violated. The decision, given in their written opinion, was based on …
“Our client is a guy who is very concerned with privacy, and who protests DUI checkpoints around the capital region here in Hartford, Connecticut,” the American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement on the lawsuit. “He feels they’re both unconstitutional and a waste of money. He has done public records investigations, for example, and recently found that for every two man hours put into a …
Central American immigrant children are processed at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Nogales, Ariz.Ross D. Franklin/APhide caption Central American immigrant children are processed at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Nogales, Ariz. A federal appeals court panel in Seattle has ruled that immigrant children under the threat of deportation may not sue the …
A federal judge has dismissed the civil rights lawsuit filed against the Mississippi Department of Human Services by a Hancock County woman whose two children may have been sexually abused while in state custody. The plaintiff, Alexandria Faye, filed the suit last year in U.S. District Court in Gulfport. Faye said her two children, then 1 and 2 years old, were sexually abused and contracted …
Georgia’s voter registration process violates the Voting Rights Act and has prevented tens of thousands of residents, mostly minorities, from registering to vote, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. Under a policy implemented in 2010, people aren’t added to the voter rolls if identifying information on their applications doesn’t exactly match information in databases …