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.
Fans of chicken breakfast sausage beware. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), a recall has been issued for “chicken breakfast sausage produced and packaged by DiLuigi Foods and sold by Trader Joe’s” because of undeclared allergens and mislabeling.
A settlement has been reached between Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises and a former employee, Cristina Griffith, who “accused the restaurant group of harassing and ultimately firing her for refusing” to do tasks she deemed illegal and for “reporting them to her supervisors.” Additionally, the restaurant group was “accused of violating the state’s Whistleblower Act.”
In May of 2016, eight-year-old Brock McCann died tragically while riding his bicycle when a garbage truck struck him. Now, the “trash hauler and one of its drivers are being sued by the” boys parents. Brock, of in Newport Beach, was in third grade at the time of the accident and was actually on his way home from school when the CR&R Inc. trash truck struck him, causing massive injuries that took his life.
After an uncomfortable experience at a Massage Envy in Clermont, Florida, a woman filed a lawsuit against the franchise owner claiming “they failed to protect customers from sexual abuse.” According to the woman, while she was getting a massage, which is supposed to be a relaxing experience, she was inappropriately touched by her masseuse back in May of this year.
In the aftermath of a tragic accident that occurred back in 2015, Hollywood producer Joel Silver is being sued. In 2015, his former assistant, Carmel Musgrove, drowned “during a star-studded trip to Bora Bora for Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s honeymoon,” and now her family is suing Silver. The family filed the lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court, alleging that “Silver, his company Silver Pictures, and Silver’s personal chef Martin Herold are responsible for her wrongful death.”
Earlier this month, Shereen Gamboa, like many women in the U.S., was looking forward to a fun night out with her friends. She and her friends had made plans to visit Riverside Magnum Gun Range for the regular Thursday night ladies night event that had become very popular at the gun range, particularly because it was a space where women could learn “how to properly handle a gun in a comfortable setting.” To attract women to the event, the gun range even waived the “$12 range fee for women.” Unfortunately for Gamboa and other women who enjoyed the event, it’s been cancelled after a man claimed the event was discriminatory.
After a teenager from Australia visited a local subway shop back in 2013, they measured their “footlong” sub because the size of it looked a bit suspicious. Upon measuring the sandwich, they discovered it was only 11 inches, and after posting an image of their sandwich on Facebook to inform family and friends of the false advertising, they proceeded to file a lawsuit against the sandwich shop. As many stories go in the Facebook era, the post went viral and prompted many others to file lawsuits against Subway until a “single class-action complaint” was filed.
A lawsuit between Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis and MailOnline, a British website, has been settled for an undisclosed amount. The lawsuit itself stemmed from “the publication of photos of their children” without their consent, and once the couple learned about the photos, they “took the website’s publisher, Associated Newspapers, to London’s High Court in July 2015 over two articles featuring their daughter, who was 1 at the time.”
A $9.5 million settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit originally filed by Gail-Jean and Doug McGuire, the parents of Daniel McGuire. The lawsuit itself was filed against Saini Trucking and Saini Brothers Trucking after McGuire was killed in a car accident when a “big-rig truck slammed into his car in traffic July 10, 2014, on Highway 17 near Bear Creek Road.”
Unfortunately for parents, toy recalls have been in the news quite a bit lately. Earlier this week, BRIO of Sweden issued a recall for nearly “1,700 BRIO soft hammer rattles sold in the U.S. and Canada” because apparently, the “wooden rings on the hammer rattles can crack.” When that happens, it can pose a “choking hazard to children.”