The family of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, the teenager who was shot by a now-former Balch Springs police officer, have filed suit against the city, department and the officer. The lawsuit by the Edwards family, filed in Dallas on Friday, claims Roy Oliver used excessive and deadly force while on the call and lacked proper training in his job as a police officer for the City of Balch Springs. Oliver was …
WildEarth Guardians filed a lawsuit Thursday against Colorado Springs Utilities, alleging more than 3,000 Clean Air Act violations at the coal-fired Martin Drake Power Plant and seeking more than $112 million in fines. The accusations center on opacity measurements, which show levels of particulates that can cause coughs, aggravated asthma, reduced lung function and even premature death. …
Fountain Creek and its tributaries were degraded, eroded and widened, and those waters combined with surface runoff to create excessive sedimentation and substandard water quality, audits by the Environmental Protection Agency found in 2013 and 2015. The city’s failures since 2009 violated its federal storm sewer system permit, the EPA reported, with the Department of Justice filing the lawsuit …
The village of Supai is located in Havasu Canyon, a side canyon of Grand Canyon, and its residents depend on spring-fed Havasu Creek for their livelihood. The tribe filed a lawsuit in federal court in early December seeking to stop groundwater pumping it says threatens seeps and springs on its reservation. Havasu Falls is one of four major waterfalls along Havasu Creek on the Havasupai Indian …
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the City of Colorado Springs and two of its police officers over a traffic stop involving two black men. The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of brothers Ryan and Benjamin Brown, claiming that they were targeted by police because they are young African-American men. (credit: ACLU) A video taken by Ryan …
A 13-year-old boy who was molested by a Palm Springs Unified special education aide has filed a lawsuit accusing the school district of “turning a blind eye” to the sexual abuse, then destroying evidence in an effort to cover up the fact that at least some of the abuse occurred on school property. The lawsuit claims that the school district ignored …