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According to a new lawsuit filed against Dr. Pepper Snapple Group (DPSG), the parent company of Canada Dry, the popular ginger-flavored soft drink doesn’t actually contain ginger. The suit was filed by Julie Fletcher on July 10 and argues she was “misled about the potential health benefits of the ginger-flavored drink.”
Shortly after Defense Distributed and the company’s owner, Cody Wilson, got the green light to continue publishing “designs and other technical files” for 3D printed guns, lawsuits are already pouring in to stop it. Earlier this week, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit “against the Trump Administration to stop the publication of plans for 3D-printer guns on the Internet.”
In the aftermath of the fatal ‘duck boat’ accident that left 17 people dead, the families of four of the victims decided to file a lawsuit against the tour operator, claiming “Ride the Ducks endangered passengers by letting the boat out on the water after the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the area, and that passengers were not told to put on life jackets.” The vessel operated that fateful day was a “World War Two-style tourist ‘duck boat’ that sank on a Missouri lake during a storm earlier this month.”
Another product was just recalled over salmonella fears. This time, the product in question is a Hungry Man frozen meal produced by Pinnacle Foods, Inc. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued the public health alert earlier this week amid concerns the product “may have been contaminated with Salmonella from whey powder that has also been recalled.” The potentially tainted whey powder “is an FDA-regulated product that is being voluntarily recalled by the producer,” according to the notice.
In a new lawsuit filed yesterday, nurse Meshea Rodgers is accusing the “operators of the privately run Wilkinson County Correctional Center in Woodville of negligence for not properly protecting her” when an inmate allegedly “threw boiling urine on her.” The incident resulted in “first-, second- and third-degree burns” for Rodgers, who was a licensed practical nurse at the facility back on July 26, 2016.
A lawsuit was recently filed by a former Medical College of Wisconsin professor after she was allegedly disciplined for “arriving late to work after attending a religious service on an Islamic holiday and was ultimately terminated as retaliation when she filed a religious discrimination complaint.” The former professor, Zainab Basir, was employed by the medical college for almost “20 years when her contract ended in February.”
According to a lawsuit recently filed in San Diego, “illegal and dangerous erection-inducing products containing Viagra and Cialis are being deceptively sold across” in convenience stores, liquor, and smoke shops throughout the city. Many of the products are labeled with “sexually suggestive names, including Black Stallion 35000, Rhino 69, and New Stiff Nights Platinum 10K” and are marketed as dietary or natural supplements.
Sioux Falls is at the center of a new lawsuit filed in federal court over the drowning death of a 5-year-old girl last spring. According to the wrongful death suit, the city of Sioux Falls allegedly “failed to provide adequate safety precautions at Falls Park, where Maggie Zaiger drowned after falling from the river bank rocks into the water on March 18.” It argues that the city “had previously ignored recommendations to establish barriers to better distinguish where the quartzite rock in the park ends and the water begins.”
Have you ever been singled out our retaliated against for a shirt you’ve worn? One teenage boy in Oregon was, and as a result, he was recently awarded $25,000. The boy, Addison Barnes, 18, was a student at Liberty High School in the Hillsboro School District in Oregon when he decided to wear a t-shirt supportive of President Trump to class. The shirt in question said, “’Donald J. Trump Border Wall Construction Co.’ with the slogan, ‘The wall just got 10 feet taller,’ a reference to a speech Trump made about building more walls along the U.S.-Mexico border.”
Who doesn’t like snacking on a handful of Goldfish crackers? Since their creation, they’ve managed to become a snack-time favorite for children across the country. Unfortunately, the beloved snack cracker is included in a new voluntary recall. Earlier this week, Pepperidge Farm voluntarily recalled four varieties of Goldfish crackers over salmonella concerns. According to the