Tesla and SpaceX — two companies owned by Elon Musk — have signed on to a legal brief in support of a lawsuit against President Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugees. Musk has been on the defensive for the past week for remaining a member of the president’s advisory councils in the wake …
A woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a city employee lost an $80,000 settlement because of a paperwork glitch. Didi—a nickname to protect the privacy of a sexual assault victim—is one of dozens, maybe hundreds, of public housing residents who were harassed or sexually assaulted by city maintenance employees in a sex-for-repairs scandal this year. But while more than 100 women were …
The city of Austin and a police officer are facing a lawsuit over excessive force after a homeless man claims he was not engaged in criminal activity when he was wrongfully slammed to the ground by a police officer. Justin Tyler Scott was initially charged after he allegedly attempted to take a stun gun from officer Gregory White and use it against him in February of last year . …
The family of Phillip White , the Vineland man who died in police custody in 2015, filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against the Vineland Police Department for $10 million. Phillip White (submitted photo) The lawsuit alleges that Vineland Police Department, Chief Timothy Codispoti, Officer Richard Janasiak and Officer Louis Platania violated White’s rights when they arrested him …
Jim Carrey has responded to a lawsuit filed on Monday, accusing him of wrongfully providing the drugs that led to the Sept. 2015 death of his girlfriend, Cathriona White. “What a terrible shame,” Carrey said in a statement to ET. “It would be easy for me to get in a back room with this man’s lawyer and make this go away, but there are some moments in life when you have to stand up and defend …
Drug use in Hollywood is under a microscope again amid a new lawsuit that claims actor Jim Carrey used his “immense wealth and celebrity status” to illegally obtain and distribute potentially deadly substances to his girlfriend Cathriona White, who died of a suicidal overdose at age 30 last year. White’s estranged husband, Mark Burton, filed the suit Monday in Los Angeles. The suit also alleges …
Charles White is escorted into the Carbon County Courthouse on June 21, 2010, where he was sentenced to life at the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs for two counts of deliberate homicide and aggravated kidnapping. White is one of four psychiatric patients who are named in a lawsuit against the state alleging extreme psychological and emotional harm while under the state’s care. Four …
David Worby’s story begins two years after hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center towers. As tales of 9/11 heroism turned into Ground Zero medical mysteries, the White Plains lawyer started an odyssey of court battles, media frenzy and funerals. At the time, cancers and rare diseases mounted among firefighters, police and others who spent months cleaning up Ground Zero, but authorities still disagreed with Worby’s theory that working at the site made them sick. “Our people were wearing, at best, hospital masks of paper, so tens of thousands of people are sick as a result of the way this was handled,” Worby said during a recent interview. “It’s tragic, and it’s sad that more people are sick and dying from this than died on that actual date.” Since 9/11, the ranks of …
Bradley County Sheriff Deputy Tiffany Oakley Bradley County Sheriff Deputy Tiffany Oakley Photo by Contributed Photo /Times Free Press. The family of a 23-year-old man shot to death last year by a Bradley County, Tenn., deputy has filed a $3 million lawsuit saying he was needlessly killed and charging the sheriff’s office covered up what really happened. When the shooting happened on July 28, …
The tense state of relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia has been roiled lately by two issues: a pending bill in Congress that would allow lawsuits against countries found to have been involved in terrorist attacks on American soil, and the so-called “28 pages,” parts of a congressional inquiry after September 11th that are said to detail possible Saudi complicity in …