Brianna Smith is a freelance writer and editor in Southwest Michigan. A graduate of Grand Valley State University, Brianna has a passion for politics, social issues, education, science, and more. When she’s not writing, she enjoys the simple life with her husband, daughter, and son.
Earlier today the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit against Walmart Inc. over allegations that the company forced pregnant employees at a “Wisconsin warehouse to go on unpaid leave and denied their requests to take on easier duties.” The EEOC is an agency responsible for enforcing laws meant to protect employees in the workplace from discrimination, including pregnancy discrimination. According to reports from the agency, a Walmart “distribution center in Menomonie, Wisconsin, has discriminated against pregnant employees since 2014.” As a result, the EEOC claims the company violated federal laws that “requires employers to accommodate workers’ pregnancies in the same way as physical disabilities.”
Hurricane Florence tore through North Carolina last week and left everything in its wake in shambles. Unfortunately, the devastating flooding that the storm brought has placed a lot of strain on hog lagoons, causing some to “release pig waste into the environment,” while others are “at imminent risk of doing so,” according to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. So far an estimated 110 lagoons have leaked waster or are at risk of doing so soon.
For many students, high school is difficult enough without the added perils of bullying. It’s a time where many students are finding out who they are while trying to keep up with their rapidly changing bodies. Unfortunately, bullying happens, and sometimes that bullying can take a gruesome turn, just as it did for one member of a New Mexico high school soccer team. According to a new lawsuit filed late last week, members of a “southeastern New Mexico high school soccer team raped a young teammate, recorded the sexual assault of another player and subjected other players to violent sexual acts as part of hazing.”
Remember the recall for Cargill ground beef last month? Well, earlier this week, Cargill Meat Solutions announced a new recall of 132,606 pounds of ground meat as a result of a deadly e.coli outbreak. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), an estimated 18 people have fallen ill as a result of the E.
A YMCA in Palm Desert, California recently took a stance to defend its lifeguards against a wrongful death lawsuit. The suit was filed after a “La Quinta man drowned under their watch,” and was filed against the YMCA, the National Park Services, and the city of Palm Desert. But what happened?
Earlier this week, Cedar Grove Composting, a composting company, “agreed to pay more than $785,000 to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it was responsible for bad smells.” Additionally, the company agreed to spend $1.45 million to help “reduce the potential for malodorous emissions.” The settlement agreement is currently awaiting final approval from a judge. But what happened? Why was the lawsuit filed in the first place?
Dog owners beware. Bravo Packing, Inc., a New Jersey-based pet food company recently issued a recall for its Performance Dog frozen raw pet food products due to potential salmonella contamination. The company issued the recall shortly after a sample of the Performance Dog food tested positive for salmonella during an FDA inspection.
A wrongful death lawsuit was recently filed against the University of New Mexico (UNM) and abortionist Curtis Boyd by the sister and mother of 23-year-old Keisha Marie Atkins. Atkins passed away in February 2017 during a late-term abortion, and now her mother and sister want justice against the parties who allegedly covered up the cause of her death.
McDonald’s recently came under fire in a lawsuit filed by the mother of a man “fatally shot in the parking lot of a Springfield McDonald’s.” According to the suit, the death of the man, Zachary Zumwalt, was totally preventable and claims “McDonald’s is partially to blame for the fatal shooting.” But what happened? What led to Zumwalt’s death?
Do you have one of the new Galaxy Note 9 phones? If so, a new lawsuit filed earlier this week may interest you. According to a lawsuit filed yesterday, the new phone allegedly caught fire. The incident occurred barely a month after Koh Dong-jin, the CEO for Samsung, “promised consumers the batteries on the new Galaxy Note 9 are ‘safer than ever.’”
