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“This case transcends football,” said Bill Carmody, an attorney for the plaintiffs.“It’s about justice. “It’s about telling the 32 team owners who collectively own all the big TV rights, the most popular content in the history of TV—that’s what they have,”
“We wanted complete accountability,” attorney Alex Arreaza told CNN. “People sit in prison and don’t have things to do. They get bored. We wanted to shut [Cruz] down completely. His story will be told by his victims—not by him.”
“The allegation is that [the plaintiff] gets on [the Swamp Fox] fine, and then gets off as a quadriplegic,” attorney Morgan Martin said. “It’s such a sad, sad day for that young man, who is just in horrible condition.”
Todd Yeary, an attorney for Harris, said that his client was forced to attend about 50 hearings before the case ever went to trial. Some proceedings were held online—but others required in-person attendance, even after Harris graduated high school and moved out-of-state to attend Spelman College in Georgia.
Louisiana’s legislation was likely designed to leverage the potential consequences of a legal challenge that the bill’s proponents would have been foolish not to expect.
“The Constitution protects everyone’s right to practice their religion free from discrimination,” an ACLU-DE attorney said, “yet Delaware’s law directly prevents Muslims, Orthodox Jews, and others who do not practice embalming from practicing their sacred funeral services.”
A Florida family filed legal claims against NASA after a piece of debris jettisoned from the International Space Station crashed through the roof of their Naples home. According to CNN, the space agency had expected the 5,000-pound piece of refuse to disintegrate after entering the Earth’s atmosphere. However, a small piece of the cargo—no larger
“The investigation uncovered reason to believe named defendants are violating or are about to violate the law and that a proceeding is in the public interest,” the F.T.C. said in a statement, adding that it has referred the case for prosecution by the Department of Justice.
“At least as a matter of pleading, these allegations are sufficient to allege conduct that shocks the conscience,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero wrote.
“We’re addressing the impacts of climate change today, and needless to say, this is a priority because we know now that climate change is here,” Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “It is not something that we’re considering in an abstract way.”