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The lawsuit claims that Illinois corrections officials spent decades turning a blind eye to repeated reports of sexual abuse in juvenile detention centers statewide.
Attorneys for the 12 plaintiffs had said that Chicago’s Department of Water Management tolerated a culture of racially-motivated abuse, harassment, and discrimination.
“The community has seen and felt the difference,” Sacramento County District Attorney Thein Ho said. “We intend to amend the complaint and proceed forward. We will not give up on the City of Sacramento.”
Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union say that, in announcing a change that would remove the “X” gender designation from Arkansas driver’s licenses, the state failed to adhere to its own administrative rules.
After deliberating for eight days, jurors announced that they had been unable to react a verdict due, in part, to disagreement over whether the U.S. Army or a private company controlled civilian “interrogation” contractors.
Eight daily newspapers and their parent companies claim that OpenAI violated copyright protections by using media articles to train its AI language tools.
A former Nickelodeon producer has filed a lawsuit against the creators of “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” claiming that the docuseries falsely presented him as a sexual predator. According to NBC News, the four-part docuseries was first aired by Investigation Discovery in March, with a bonus episode released the following month.
The three students claim that Northwestern University failed to take immediate action after pro-Palestine protesters allegedly breached the school’s code of conduct by engaging in disruptive and hateful speech.
The lawsuit cites a clause from Section 230 of the Communications Act in arguing that software developers should be permitted to release tools blocking elements of Facebook’s content curation algorithm.
In her complaint, the student claims that Columbia broadly failed to prevent a small set of “extremists” from using pro-Palestine protests as an opportunity to harass and intimidate Jewish students.