Detroit Police Chief James Craig initially said the officer who struck a man at least four times, including once in the face, with his baton during a violent arrest at Meijer in Detroit Oct. 8 was justified. “Our findings are somewhat different than when I first reported this matter,” Craig said Monday. Craig now feels the officer should have taken steps to deescalate the situation before …
Concerns raised by the release of a report last week highlighting supposed security vulnerabilities affecting pacemakers, defibrillators and other medical devices have prompted attorneys to pursue a class-action lawsuit against their manufacturer, St. Jude Medical. Lawyers for defibrillator patient Clinton W. Ross Jr. filed the class-action complaint Friday in Los Angeles federal court, one day …
A state judge has sided with the town in a lawsuit filed by the owner of a commercial garage who claimed his building was destroyed by fire in 2013 because of the Fire Department’s inadequate response. Justice William Stokes in a ruling issued Thursday stated that the town, its volunteer Fire Department and Chief Frank Ross have immunity from the lawsuit filed in February …
As you’d expect from the world’s largest seller of consumer electronics, Apple gets sued a lot. Some of those suits go places, others get dismissed out of hand the first time they get to court. And then there’s Florida.