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No Sirens From Deputy Involved in Deadly Rutherford County Crash

A second lawsuit has been filed in connection to a high-speed pursuit that began in Coffee County and ended 31 miles later in Rutherford County. The pursuit started when Garieon Simmons allegedly stole an SUV from a Manchester funeral home in Coffee County on June 24. He led law enforcement on the two-county chase before he hit two vehicles on South …


US Aid to Israel Illegal: Lawsuit

American aid to Israel is illegal under a decades-old law that prohibits aid to nuclear powers that have not signed the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, DC. The lawsuit, filed this week by Grant Smith, the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, comes as the US and Israel have closed many of …



Court Sides With Marine Mammal Advocates in Naval Sonar Lawsuit

The federal agency tasked with granting the U.S. Navy permission to use low-frequency active sonar for training, testing and routine operations in oceans around the world didn’t do enough to protect marine mammals, a panel of judges in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided recently. Advocates, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Humane Society of …




Judge Allows Lawsuit Over County Officials’ Pay Raises to Move Forward

A judge today allowed a lawsuit over pay raises for county officials to move forward, despite efforts by attorneys to quash it. At a preliminary hearing, Judge Spencer Ludington denied motions by defense attorneys to dismiss the lawsuit as “non-justiciable.” The hearing was the first in a six-month-old lawsuit from County Comptroller Bob Antonacci.


SHAREHOLDER UPDATE: Brodsky & Smith, LLC Announces an Investigation of the Board of Directors of Golden Enterprises, Inc.

BALA CYNWYD, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Law office of Brodsky & Smith, LLC announces that it is investigating potential claims against the Board of Directors of Golden Enterprises, Inc. (“Golden” or “the Company”) (Nasdaq: GLDC) for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of state law in connection with the sale of the Company to Utz Quality Foods, Inc. (“Utz”). Click here to learn …