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Nisha Kashyap, the Racial Justice Program Director for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, said in a press release that “arresting people when they come to court is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes, not a constitutional democracy.”
A Virginia man has filed a lawsuit against the City of Norfolk and its police chief, seeking information on why, and how often, local traffic cameras track residents’ vehicles. According to NBC News, the lawsuit was filed on behalf of Lee Schmidt, a retired veteran, along with at least one other individual co-plaintiff and a
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, accuses Ticketmaster and Live Nation of engaging in at least three distinct and broadly unlawful practices.
The court, aside from denying the federal government’s motion to dismiss the multistate lawsuit, also extended the timeline of the injunction. Bonta’s office has since cast the decision as yet another win for his office, which has challenged many of the Trump administration’s unprecedented attacks on states rights.
“They’ve had a hard slog,” an attorney for the two plaintiffs said. “They would really like to get some sense that they’ve been heard and that the injustices they’ve suffered are recognized.”
“Ms. Comey’s termination – without case, without advance notice, and without any opportunity to contest it – was unlawful and unconstitutional,” Comey’s lawsuit alleges. “In truth, there is no legitimate explanation. Rather, Defendants fired Ms. Comey solely or substantially because her father is former FBI Director James B. Comey, or because of her perceived political affiliation and beliefs, or both.”
In a typically bizarre post to social media, the president downplayed his broad unpopularity, suggesting that outlets critical of his policies are “lying” about his troubled past.
Attorneys for the plaintiff, identified in court documents as Rebecca Dallas, accuse the owners of Roblox and Discord of “recklessly and deceptively operating their business in a way that led to the sexual exploitation and suicide” of the plaintiff’s 15-year-old son, Ethan Dallas.
The lawsuit provides a specific example of Sterling’s alleged impropriety: in 2021, for instance, Sterling told Brunner that she couldn’t meet him on a specific day because she didn’t feel well, only to post a picture to social media showing her in the company of another man, co-defendant Shanta Cotright.
“Unbeknownst to Ohtani and his agent Nez Balelo, plaintiffs exploited Ohtani’s name and photograph to drum up traffic to a website that marketed plaintiffs’ own side project development,” wrote Ohtani and Balelo’s attorneys. “They engaged in this self-dealing without authorization, and without paying Ohtani for that use, in a selfish and wrongful effort to take advantage of their proximity to the most famous baseball player in the world.”