Ryan Farrick is a freelance writer and small business advertising consultant based out of mid-Michigan. Passionate about international politics and world affairs, he’s an avid traveler with a keen interest in the connections between South Asia and the United States. Ryan studied neuroscience and has spent the last several years working as an operations manager in transportation logistics.
Victims’ family members said that an “unlicensed firearms dealer” in Texas sold the Odessa-Midland shooter an AR-style rifle–after he’d failed a background check for being mentally unfit.
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine said that “reasonable consumers” would have thought the grocery deliver app’s service fees were tips for shoppers, when they actually went straight to the company.
Investigators believed President Donald Trump may have grossly inflated the value of Trump Organization properties to win favorable bank loans and insurance terms.
The Colorado Department of Corrections has reached a tentative settlement with inmates who sued the states over concerns about exposure to novel coronavirus. According to The Gazette, the lawsuit was first filed in May. In the initial complaint, inmates expressed frustration with the Department of Corrections’ apparent unwillingness to alter operating procedures to protect inmates
A TikTok employee is also suing Trump, saying the administration is using American workers as pawns in a “political spitting match” between the White House and Beijing.
A Pennsylvania-based federal court said that Trump’s lawsuit cannot continue until state challenges to mail-in voting’s constitutionality are resolved.
Critics of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo claim his administration is under-reporting coronavirus-related deaths at nursing homes by refusing to tally patients who died after being transferred to hospitals. Only New York, notes The Associated Press, does not count coronavirus fatalities as nursing home fatalities if they occur in any setting other than a nursing
Scooter rental company Lime is facing a lawsuit accusing it of failing to properly care for its equipment. The lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco court, claims that dozens of Lime riders have been injured by poorly-maintained rental scooters. Attorneys estimate that, in total, some 50 people in the Bay Area have been injured by
The $600 million award may be the largest settlement ever paid by Michigan’s government.
The companies are threatening to suspend operations after a California judge ordered them to classify their drivers as employees.