A federal lawsuit claims a bank and property management companies are making decisions along racial lines that negatively impact neighborhoods across Kansas City. A watchdog group called the National Fair Housing Alliance filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank, Ocwen Financial and Altisource for discrimination.
Former CNN producer Stanley Wilson’s racial discrimination lawsuit against CNN may proceed after a California appellate court reversed a lower court’s ruling on Tuesday. The 51-year-old Wilson, who is black, originally filed suit against CNN in 2014, alleging that the company discriminated against him on the basis of race over his 17-year-career at the network. As …
Missouri’s highest court says it won’t intervene in a lawsuit by activists seeking an independent probe of a prosecutor’s handling of grand jury proceedings in the Ferguson police shooting of Michael Brown. The Missouri Supreme Court announced in an order obtained by media outlets Friday that it won’t hear the matter. Activists were challenging a state appellate court’s May conclusion that a …
A federal judge has allowed parts of a lawsuit against Temple University alleging religious discrimination to move forward. In a decision Monday, U.S. Eastern District Judge Thomas O’Neill dismissed two claims made by Maurice Darby, a university employee for more than 25 years, against the school but greenlighted two others in an amended complaint made under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of …
The family of a woman killed in car crash with a state police trooper is taking the state to court. Sgt. Jeff Denning was on his way to Mahomet after an officer was shot in early may.
Defense attorneys in the wrongful-death lawsuit by Michael Brown’s parents cite recent rampages that killed police in warning against expanding who can see unredacted grand jury transcripts related to Brown’s death. A St. Louis federal judge agreed in June to letno more than two attorneys for the defense and each of Brown’s parents see transcripts of grand jury proceedings involving …
A jury has found in favor of a University of Washington surgeon who was sued by the daughter of a patient who died after the doctor used a non-FDA-approved bone cement during the woman’s spinal surgery. Rick Friedman, the lawyer for Cindy Wilson, says the jury reached the decision on Friday that Dr. Jens Chapman did not act below the standard of medical care when he used the Norian bone cement …
Waqes Mubarik found out he was one of the unlucky ones in 2015 when the Volkswagen scandal broke out. His 2015 Passant diesel was equipped with one of the so-called defeat devices designed to cheat on emissions tests. “I’ve been a loyal customer to Volkswagen for years,” the physician’s assistant said on the phone from Barrie, Ontario.
The city of Honolulu has decided to pay a lesbian couple $80,000 to settle a lawsuit after the pair were wrongfully arrested by a police officer for kissing. …