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In a brief filed last Thursday, the Department of Justice argued that that Utah’s lawsuit is “without merit” and should be heard by lower courts before being escalated.
Several right-wing personalities, including former FOX News host Tucker Carlson, repeatedly accused plaintiff Ray Epps of secretly being an FBI agent tasked with instigating January 6 protesters to violence.
A former inmate has filed a lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Corrections, claiming that he was sexually abused by a prison doctor while serving time at Deer Ridge Correctional Institute. According to the Oregon Capital Chronicle¸ the lawsuit was filed earlier this week in U.S. District Court in Portland. The plaintiff, James Watkins, was
“We’ve been preparing for a mass detention and deportation agenda for the last nine months,” said A.C.L.U. senior staff attorney Kyle Virgien. “Now that Trump is the president-elect, it’s become apparent that this is a fight that we’re going to need to have.”
The lawsuit suggests that Target maintained an “advanced system of electronic surveillance” that included 14 “investigation centers” and two “forensic labs,” used to “enhance video footage and analyze finger prints [sic].”
“On camera, defendant West began to choke Plaintiff with one hand,” the lawsuit alleges. “He then wrapped his other hand around her neck and continued to strangle her with both hands.”
Former wrestling announcer Melvin Phillips, Jr., the lawsuit says, never stopped abusing children—yet was never subjected to further discipline by Linda and Vince McMahon, who allegedly knew, or should have known, that Phillips was continuing to prey on young boys.
“Grace Jabbari has exhibited tremendous courage throughout this very long and difficult process,” lawyer Brittany Henderson said in a statement. “We hope that she can finally put this chapter behind her and move forward with her head held high.”
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that Facebook’s securities and risk disclosures were misleading because the platform “represented the risk of improper access or disclosure of Facebook user data as purely hypothetical when the risk had already transpired.”
“Michael helped countless people in the 51 years of his life, but when he needed help from the people who were entrusted to help him, whose job it was to help him, he was failed at every turn,” said attorney Terah Tollner.